Consider with a grain of salt: DEBKA: US intelligence finds 5,000 Hizballah trained to seize Galilee towns

...on the strength of solid US intelligence gathered over months on detailed war plans Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas have drawn up to send five Hizballah brigades sweeping across the border to seize five sectors of Galilee, while also organizing a massive Israeli-Arab uprising against the Jewish state.

Hamas would open a second front in the south and in the east. Syria is expected to step in at some stage.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards instructors at especially established training facilities near Tehran are already well advanced in training a cadre of 5,000 Hizballah fighters in special operations and urban combat tactics...

1st Battalion:

This unit will break through the Naqura-Rosh Haniqra border pass and sweep south along seven kilometers to seize Nahariya

...This battalion will capture a large number of Israeli hostages for use as live shields against an Israeli counter-attack.

A small group of 150 fighters, trained by Revolutionary Guards marines, will also try and reach the coast by swift boats.

2nd Battalion:

This unit is assigned to capture the northern Israeli town of Shlomi

3rd Battalion:

...this battalion must reach the three Israeli-Arab villages of  B'ina, Deir al-Asad and Majd el-Krum.

Iranian war planners want Hizballah to control the three Israeli-Arab locations for two advantages:

One: As a commanding position for stirring up the disaffected Israeli-Arab villages and towns of Lower Galilee and Wadi Ara to the south into a full-blown uprising.

...Two: ...The Israeli Air Force will be constrained from attacking the areas held by Hizballah by the presence of large civilian populations.

4th Battalion: This battalion will push southeast into the Kadesh Valley...

5th Battalion: Hizballah's Strategic Reserve.

Rocket attacks from Lebanon will focus on disabling Israel's strategic military sites, such as air force bases, missile bases, its nuclear facilities and naval bases...

Syria's initial involvement will be limited to cover by artillery or air for Hizballah operations...Damascus will open Front No. 4 against Israel from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.

...The obvious trigger would be an Israeli military operation against Iran's nuclear facilities, but once all the elements are in place, they could be activated by any other pretext conjured up in Tehran or Damascus.

In recent weeks, both Hizballah and its Syrian allies have mobilized their forces while telling the Arab world that the Jewish state is about to attack Lebanon...

DEBKAfile
February 1, 2010