DEBKAfile: Sidon is taken over as Russian-Syrian spy base and Hezbullah stronghold

DEBKAfile is reporting that Sidon, the largest town in southern Lebanon, has been taken over as a Russian-Syrian spy base and Hezbullah stronghold. DEBKA reports that the two Russian Chechen platoons are setting up their headquarters and surveillance posts in the Lebanese port of Sidon and giving Syrian intelligence a window on their input. Syria is drumming up local support in the strategic