Israeli mobile artillery unit fires on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Posted on 07/13/2006 2:32:28 PM PDT by RDTF
more to follow
"hell I wish I was in Iraq right now, man I would ve love to be involved in this arse kicking that's a coming."
If you are still in the Arkansas National Guard, you may get your wish. You might want to download maps of Syria and Damascus.
Thanks for your service.
Israel: Hezbollah Fajr Rockets Likely Weapon
July 13, 2006 19 02 GMT
Summary
Radical Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah likely used Fajr rockets in its July 13 attack against the Israeli city of Haifa.
Analysis
In its July 13 rocket attack against Haifa, Israel, radical Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah likely used Fajr rockets that the group was thought -- but never proven -- to have received from Iran several years ago. In fact, rumor had it that Hezbollah had obtained both the Fajr-3 and the Fajr-5 rockets. Fajr-3 has a range of 28 miles, giving it the ability to hit Haifa from southern Lebanon.
Because many of the so-called "Katyusha" (a now-generic term) rockets used against Israel are manufactured locally and represent a number of different systems, specifications vary greatly. But Hezbollah is thought to possess 10,000 artillery rockets.
If the Israel Defense Forces, which reported the missile had been launched from Lebanon, did track the device, it would have done so with counter-battery radar, which is equipped to backtrack along the ballistic trajectory and estimate a launch location. Israel would immediatly repond to the calculated location with heavy artillery and artillery rockets.
Israeli intelligence says Hezbollah has as many as 30 Zelzal-2 rockets, a 610 mm heavy artillery rocket that can deliver a warhead of more than 1,000 pounds to a range of 130 miles, giving it the ability to hit the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
UPDATED: 16:01, July 13, 2006
Northern Israelis sheltered from continuing rockets attack
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Israeli residents in the northern border town of Nahariya left their homes Thursday morning to stay in underground shelters in response to the continuing Katyusha rockets attack by Lebanese militants.
Two more Katyusha barrages pummeled the Nahariya area around 10: 00. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack.
Nahariya Mayor Jackie Sabag said the whole town has shut down, with businesses closed. All residents were urged to comply with army orders to stay in underground shelters throughout Thursday and to pay attention to media outlets.
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I don't see any confirmation of this in the major media.
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Wherever Fox pulled this information from, they haven't been in a hurry to repeat it or publish it.
This conflict has plenty of potentional to expode and spiral out of control on its own without FNC giving it a helping hand!
This is the Fog of Cable News about a semi war before it might become a real war.
Called the wife a couple of hours ago and told her to fill 'er up - all 34 gallons. My two work vehicles and minivan will be topped off as soon as she gets home. This is going to be an expensive night.
If they are good journalists, they will check and double check and multiple check their sources, before running with it again. If they dare say it again on live TV, but still, here at nearly 7:00 p.m. Eastern, have nothing of it on their affiliated news websites in written form, as a flash or ticker or what not, something seriously is out of whack. I suspect they are not talking again or speculating the "Iranian Guards" side of this on CNN or Fox as of right now--but are quietly backtracking?
Israeli mobile artillery unit fires on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
"Mark stated on his radio show that Sean was the first to report or break the story today; that it was being reported over the Israeli airwaves that the Iranian Guard positioned in Lebanon fired the missile that hit Haifa."
If this thread is wrong, we can blame it on Sean and downgrade him to just an average American.
Gas prices goes up... Bush approval ratings go which way again?
Big diff! Russians didn't want to die any more than we did. With the islamos, it makes their day.
Which is not to say that it's a disservice to post a report that accurately characterizes what was said and by whom.
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