 Amid heightened threats from president Ahmadinejad, Tehran opens a back door into Israel for its penetration-cum-terror agents: Sudan to the Negev. DEBKAfileÂ’s intelligence sources reveal that two Iranian Revolutionary Guards companies were dropped at KhartoumÂ’s military airfield May 2 by a C-130 transport and driven to a secret military installation on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital. Their arrival signals the onset of an Iranian military airlift to Sudan of a fully equipped RG brigade with armor, a major escalation of the clandestine Iranian threat to Egypt and Israel alike. | An armored brigade is hardly clandestine. Possibly there to help defend Khartoum against the proposed UN force |
| Or just to 'blood' the troops and get them warmed up for battle with...an army to be named later. Or possibly just for the free gun sex. |
| Iran can airlift a brigade? Reeeeeaally? With what? |
DEBKAfileÂ’s security sources report the ongoing routine of illicit Sudanese infiltrations into the southern Israeli Negev, shepherded by any of three local smuggling rings: the Palestinian gang headed by Jamal Samhadan, the Hamas governmentÂ’s new appointee as commander of its security forces, Sudanese-Egyptian crime organizations and al QaedaÂ’s Sinai network. All three are readily available to operate under the orders of the Iranian RG intelligence officers posted in Sudan.
The scale of the Negev traffic is such that hardly a day goes by without Sudanese infiltrators being caught attempting to steal across the Egyptian border into southern Israel. Many are job-seekers; a few, mules for gunrunners or spies collecting data on army installations in the desert region; some were caught recently near the town of Mitzpeh Ramon. They are led to their destinations by Egyptian intelligence agents familiar with the territory, Palestinian terrorists from Gaza or a sprinkling of Israeli Arabs.
An Israeli security source told DEBKAfile that the current Egyptian-Israeli-Gazan border situation offers Iranian agents and terrorists mixed in among the Sudanese infiltrators an easy route into southern Israel. The RG agents are Arabic speakers, having acquired the language from their stint as military instructors with the Lebanese Hizballah. |