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Source: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI09Ak01.html
How Hi-Tech Hizballah Called the Shots
[Asia Times-Hong Kong] Iason Athanasiadis - Hizballah's ability to repel the Israel Defense Forces during the recent conflict was largely due to its use of intelligence techniques gleaned from allies Iran and Syria that allowed it to monitor encoded Israeli communications relating to battlefield actions, according to Israeli officials. "Israeli EW [electronic warfare] systems were unable to jam the systems at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, they proved unable to jam Hizballah's command and control links from Lebanon to Iranian facilities in Syria...and they hacked into Israeli operations communications in the field," said Richard Sale, intelligence editor for UPI.