Pentagon presses for U.S. operation in Lebanon

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[freedom44]

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. Defense Department is said to be mulling a proposal to expand special operations forces and send them to destroy insurgency strongholds along the Lebanese-Syrian border.

U.S. defense sources said the proposal is being examined by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They said the plan calls for a multi-pronged attack on insurgency strongholds in such countries as Lebanon and Somalia.

"The global war on terror is continuing, and it will for the foreseeable future," Rumsfeld, who did not cite future U.S. counter-insurgency targets, said on Tuesday. "As we prosecute the war, we'll need to continue to strengthen, improve and transform our forces; modernize and restructure programs and commands."

The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat reported on Wednesday that the proposal submitted to Rumsfeld was the result of the secretary's decision to expand the U.S. war against Al Qaida and its allies. The Saudi-owned newspaper quoted U.S. sources as saying the first step being mulled by Rumsfeld is for a U.S. military attack on Al Qaida strongholds in Somalia as early as this month.

[Argus]

A strike against the Muslim terrorists in Lebanon would make my Maronite refugee tobacconist very happy.

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[RightOnline]

Sounds good to me.........but no sense stopping with Lebanon and Somalia.

Syria........terrorist strongholds in Iran..........Saudi Arabia............Egypt............Chechnya..........anywhere where Muslims gather to attack us, they should be dead, dead, dead, DEAD.

[FreedomPoster]

Works for me.

[denydenydeny]

Interesting if true. But there has not been even a whisper of this information anywhere else.

[Visalia]

Get them before they get us.

[eskimo]

Pentagon presses for U.S. operation in Lebanon

These guys always want a new war; it's their only purpose for even existing.

[Naspino]

Interesting if true. But there has not been even a whisper of this information anywhere else.

Sounds like a rehash of the story by the World Tribune and I think another Freeper mentioned that Ashley Wilkes had started the rumor after a cocktail party.

[Naspino]

These guys always want a new war; it's their only purpose for even existing.

They're probably still a little po'ed about the plane hitting them.

[eskimo]

They're probably still a little po'ed about the plane hitting them.

That could be.

[Dr. Marten]

If this were true...they would not be advertising it!

[zzen01]

Been there done that! USS Independence CV-62 was off the Beruit Lebanon coast 1980, 1982, 1983-84!