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Posted on 07/14/2006 6:08:50 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Israeli gunners cover their ears as an artillery piece fires into southern Lebanon from a position on the border near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, Friday, July 14, 2006.
Maybe Karl Rove and Dick Cheney should send Joe Wilson on a mission to the Bekaa Valley, right NOW, to see if the missing WMDs are there...
What do you think??
I've been running numerical sims using 2002 Iranian and Syrian OOBs and TOEs since mid 2003, but this focus on Israel caught me by surprise. Playing catch up ball here, D/Ling GIS files for the region to mate up with DEMs already acquired, and keeping up with this thread is keeping me busy.
I haven't gamed this out, but as of 2003-2004, Syria was sorely overmatched in the Golan, even though they had thrown everything into that theater to the point they had a hard time dealing with uppity Kurds in NE Syria.
Iran, well, been watching them all along, close. No surprises expected from there.
I'm going to try and get a map uploaded, and then assess what's happening. Milestones are expected as soon as Israel can put a credible and self secure force into the rocket zones, and the major offensive into S. Lebanon on a broad front is expected within 24 to 48 hours.
Once Israel starts putting fires on rocket launch baskets, there won't be much happening other than back and forth until IDF establishes parity or better, outside surprise moves from countries not currently involved militarily.
Other things need done, but there's a window coming up and I will be in and out during that period.
Somebody with Admin privileges need to back Burbank Karl up here, when the Hurricane threads reached 2000 to 3000 posts they start bogging things down, and a new one will need to be started.
That evil ape needs to get disappeared.
Profound, Tx -- Israel's and our leaders should ponder those thoughts (and the proverbial definition of "insanity") as they plan their moves...
CNN Intl. keeps showing young men who are injured - calling them civilians. Now how do they know they are civilians when you can't tell them from the terrorists?
and the Sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning.
I think the Merkova runs on diesel, but don't take that to the bank. I believe Israel has some M1's too, and those have the gas turbines.
I'm not as up on Israeli TOEs as I should be, things have been quiet there lately.
Thanks a bunch...I'm in the Caribbean on a 12k dialup line. At home I have Verizon FiOS. This sucks........
Please see post #682...
Syrian Ambassador Imad Mustafa walks out of MSNBC studio to avoid joint TV appearance with Israeli counterpart Danny Ayalon. ‘We used to sit next to each other in the makeup room and chat. Now he runs away from me like from fire,’ Ayalon says
WASHINGTON - Syrian Ambassador to the United States, Imad Mustafa, walked out of an MSNBC studio in Washington Friday after Israel Ambassador Danny Ayalon suggested the two appear together on a news broadcast. “The man ran away,” producers of the interview program informed, chuckling.
Mustafa may have been concerned that he would lose his position, considering an incident Wednesday when Lebanese Ambassador to Washington, Farid Abboud, was recalled to Lebanon after expressing support for Hizbullah during an interview with CNN, contrary to the Lebanese government’s official position.
Ayalon and his Syrian counterpart have been running from one TV studio to the next in recent days, waging “public relations battles.” The two have appeared in no less than 12 consecutive TV interviews over the past few days. With that, Mustafa has made sure not to sit next to the Israeli diplomat in the studios, nor even in the makeup rooms.
Ayalon said that “In the past, we used to sit next to each other in the makeup room and chat. Mustafa is a professor, a member of the scientific academy in Damascus, an educated and well mannered man, a personal friend and appointment of President Basher Assad. We used to shake hands and talk. This time he is surrounded by people from the Syrian embassy and runs away from me like from fire,” he said.
The Israeli ambassador, who appeared in a live interview on NBC, asked the interviewer why he and the Syrian ambassador were being filmed in two separate studios. “Ask him if he will sit in the same studio as me,” Ayalon added. The interviewer passed the balled into Mustafa’s court on live TV, and he mumbled embarrassedly that innocent people were being killed in Lebanon.
During the commercial break, the interviewer asked Ayalon if he would appear in the same studio as his Syrian counterpart and he agreed. However, shortly afterwards, the show’s producers informed him that the Syrian ambassador, when he was asked to come into the common studio, responded, “No, no, no,” and hurriedly walked out of the studio.
The two ambassadors were scheduled to appear in their 13th interview on CNN Larry King Live.
Thx.
Israeli flag - beatiful, thanks for posting.
Got a link for that?
Great to have it all happening on one thread...just caught up, from 1st to 673.
Over here you guys!
He does appear to drip evil!
Got a link for that?
Place Mark.
Great thread.
Thanks BK.
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