Posted on 07/15/2006 5:35:46 AM PDT by Solson
I thought this could be a new thread for today. BurbankKarl's thread did well yesterday.
Just switched over, live shot or tape? Not seeing the anchor right now.
You know...Bush has gone to the UN a few times...DARING them to become useful....and they keep failing..
Bolton is doing his best...but it is like trying to row a boat with one oar...just round and round.
DAMN, the bombs are falling MUCH CLOSER than before.
I want to go HOME!
Israel has troops on the ground in Gaza, as per CNN.
Here you go.
Crisis in the Middle East: Local Bloggers Report
http://truthlaidbear.com/mideastcrisis.php
It's too early. I think Burbank Karl said 6 - 9 California time.
I was thinking about that a while ago..and I wonder if NOW would be a good time for the Americans to get him..while he is "occupied" by the Lebanon/Israeli conflict...??
got it..thanks kiddo
Saw it, yep.... looked like leaf earings to me.. her face is too long for that hairstyle and those earings.
Middle East: UN team holds talks in Cairo on need to defuse crisis
Israel's military blockade of Lebanon, as well as the Palestinian territories, was obviously in violation of international law as civilians suffered most from such actions, a senior UN official said here on Friday.
"The law is simple. Civilians must be shielded. Civilians are protected persons. Civilian infrastructure is protected," UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland told a press conference.
"If sealing off borders, if sealing off harbors, if bombing airports first and foremost means that innocent third parties cannot receive goods, cannot travel, cannot get to health facilities, cannot get their daily needs met ... Israel's blockade is obviously wrong" he said.
The UN's top humanitarian aid official also urged the international community to respond to an emergency appeal for aid for the Palestinians and said civilians must be spared in the spiraling Middle East conflict.
I call BS on that. The Pali's had their chance. It's over.
I didn't say I don't like him...
live, blonde hair
The U.S. State Dept is doing a GREAT JOB of keeping things secret from those of us who are stranded here. We would like a litte more transparency, or at least a definitive answer that they actually are going to get us out. Precise timing is one thing but silence is another.
re: Putin
He sure didn't have a problem hunting down and killing when it came to his soldiers. BTW, why were his guys in Iraq exactly? s/
I hear you, we are all praying for your safe return. Just don't tell us when you learn about the plans to get you out of there.
Keep your head down and be safe! Prayers up!
Don't blame you for not being in the best of moods. Hopefully arrangements will be made soon to get you and others out of there. Keep a low profile and stay safe, prayers up for all of you over there.
Our thoughts and prayers are still with you.
The disaster that overtook one of the Israeli Navy’s state of the art warships, Ahi-Hanit, was thoroughly planned in advance by an enemy which managed to take Israel’s military commanders by surprise. It has shocked Israel’s military to a degree comparable to the profound effect on US forces of al Qaeda’s 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Aden.
The Saar-5 class corvette, with a crew of 61 seamen and a 10-man helicopter crew, was hit Friday, July 17 at 20:15 hours, while shelling Beirut international airport. Four crewmen were reported missing. One was found dead Saturday aboard the crippled ship. He is First Sgt Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod. The search continues for three missing crewmen, Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitch, 21, from Haifa, Corp. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon Lezion and Master Sgt. Dov Shternschuss, 37, from Carmiel.
DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal: The Israeli Saar-5 corvette Ahi-Hanita was
DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal that the warship was struck from Beirut by an Iran-made radar-guided C-802 shore-to-sea missile of the Silkworm family. Weighing 715 kilos, with a range of 120km, the missile is armed with a strong anti-jamming capability, which lends it a 98% success rate in escaping interception.
The Israeli ship is armed with an advanced Barak anti-missile system, which may have missed the incoming missile. Israeli military planners must now look at the vulnerability of the navy following the appearance of the first Iranian C-802 missiles
The Israeli chief of staff, Lt.Gen. Dan Halutz, started his news conference Friday night just 15 minutes earlier at 20:00. The campaign was then 60 hours old from the moment Hizballah raiders captured two Israel soldiers in an ambush inside Israel. He was poised, assured and clear, until a reporter asked if the military goals of the Lebanese offensive matched the objectives set out in government decisions. His answer was: “Don’t start looking for cracks.”
But Hizballah found the cracks 15 minutes later. Its secretary general Hassan Nasrallah put in a telephone appearance on Al Manar TV straight after General Halutz to inform his listeners across the Middle East that one of Israel’s warships was ablaze at that very moment. He said the ship had been crippled while it was bombing Beirut and was sinking. Hizballah, he added, had prepared a number of surprises for Israel and its armed forces Despite several Israeli air raids, the station is still broadcasting.
In Israel, the Hizballah chief’s words were taken at first as an implausible threat for the future – until the order of events began to unfold.
DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal:
Shortly before 20:00 hours Friday, Hizballah launched a pair of land-to-sea C-802 missiles against the Israeli ship from the coast of Beirut. The trajectory of the first was adjusted to a landing amidships from above. It missed and exploded in the water. The second was rigged to skim the water like a cruise missile. It achieved a direct hit of the Ahi Hanit’s helicopter deck, starting a fire. The ship began to sink, as Nasrallah said, and would have been lost were it not for the speed and bravery of crewmen who jumped into the flames and doused them before the ship exploded and sank.
It is not known whether the men dead and missing paid with their lives for saving the ship.
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