These Arab league fellows are only 40 years late.
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.
Classic headline...
I get the impression these people are much more savy than we give them credit for. The posts on the blog reveal they are very aware that they are being manipulated by Iran and Syria and one even made note that Hezbulla was fleeing under cover of civilian convoys leaving the city and innocent people were dying because of these cowards (the blogs terms for them)..
Not yet, waiting. The first reports are always wrong.
they have been saying for a couple of days that they planned to send in the Marines to take them to Cyprus
Zogby is an a$$ as far as I'm concerned.
Hezbollah guerrillas who are bombarding Israel with missiles are being helped by members of Iran’s revolutionary guards, Israel said tonight.
Israel also warned the terror group has Iranian missiles that could hit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, major Israeli cities that sit up to 124 miles from the Lebanese border.
In almost four days of fighting, Hezbollah has fired longer range rockets that have hit Tiberias – a resort city on the Sea of Galilee, where tradition says Jesus performed some of his best-known miracles – and Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa, both about 25 miles from the border.
In total, Hezbollah has fired more than 350 rockets at Israel since fighting erupted on Wednesday, the army said. But Hezbollah has so far refrained from using the approximately 20 longer-range rockets it has at its disposal, a move that would likely broaden the scope of fighting to include Syria, and possibly even Iran.
“They might attack Tel Aviv with their long-range rockets. This is in the (military’s) assessment,” a senior Israeli intelligence said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. It is unclear why Hezbollah had not yet used the longer-range rockets, he said.
In a meeting of police, rescue and municipal officials in Tel Aviv on Friday, it was decided to increase the readiness of the rescue services due to the possibility that Hezbollah could attack the city, officials said. Ambulance drivers were instructed to be near their vehicles at all times, they added.
Israeli officials have repeatedly accused Syria and Iran of assisting Hezbollah and other militant groups, including Hamas. Military officials said Iranian troops were directly involved in an attack late Friday on an Israeli warship that killed four soldiers.
About 100 Iranian soldiers are in Lebanon and helped fire the Iranian-made, radar-guided C-802 missile at the ship that was cruising off the coast of Lebanon when it was hit, the official said. The troops involved in firing the missiles are from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the official added.
The missile has a range of approximately 100 kilometres, or 60 miles.
Another Hezbollah missile also hit and sank a nearby civilian merchant ship at around the same time, Twelve Egyptian sailors were on board the Cambodian merchant ship and were rescued from the water by other passing ships.
The current round of Hezbollah-Israeli fighting erupted Wednesday after the guerrillas attacked an Israeli military patrol, killing eight soldiers and capturing two others. Since then, more than 105 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and four Israeli civilians have been killed.
Israel has bombarded Lebanon’s airport and main roads in the most intensive offensive against the country in 24 years, while Hezbollah has fired an almost non-stop barrage of rockets at northern Israeli towns and cities.
In Haifa on Saturday, the Israeli army deployed a Patriot missile battery, the army said. The missile defence system cannot destroy Katyusha rockets – hundreds of which have been fired at Israel from Lebanon in recent days – but could protect against surface-to-surface missiles, such as those possessed by Syria, the army said.
The deployment of the US-made defence system appeared to signify that Israel was bracing for the possibility that fighting could spread to Syria.
On Saturday, Hezbollah rockets hit Tiberias three times, the first attack on the city since the 1973 Mideast war. At least two houses were directly hit, but only a few light injuries were reported, medics said.
Earlier today it was reported that at least 12 Lebanese villagers, including women and children, were killed in what appeared to be an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of vehicles fleeing a village near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, a witness said.
The Lebanese convoy was leaving the border village of Marwaheen, when it was attacked. An Associated Press photographer said he counted 12 bodies in two cars that were destroyed by the attack shortly after midday (10am Irish time).
Several hours earlier, Israeli forces across the border told villagers by loudspeaker to leave the area or else the village would be destroyed. They did not give a reason for the ultimatum.
I would think Beirut would have to be secured first by Israelis.
This was debunked by Israel:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738315.html
Responding to a report in a pan-Arab daily newspaper that Israel presented Damascus with an ultimatum, an Israel Defense Forces officer said Saturday that targeting Syria is currently not on Israel's agenda.
"We're not a gang that shoots in every direction," the officer said. "It won't be right to bring Syria into the campaign."
Iran has a bunch of those old cruise missiles, slow, short ranged, and enough to easily overwhelm a single Aegis platform, based on published pre Block III/IV specs anyway.
I hope this is all Iran has to pay for.
Thanks, RDTF. I had missed that previously.
I think it was yesterday that they were monitoring Hezbollah television. Now why would they have a television station in Lebanon unless at least some of the Lebanese people were watching it?
I think that maybe more people in Lebanon support Hezbollah than th MSM want us to believe.
Previous reports were that it was a rumor from some civilian who overheard it from some unnamed person. Never confirmed by anyone on either side.
Mr. Potatohead needs to wind up on the wrong side of the grass. Immediately, if not before.
These Arab league fellows are only 40 years late.
I saw some interesting interviews with some Palestenians in Gaza this morning and they said they were sick of fighting and only wanted peace and to live side by side with Israel with both countries in peace. I was actually very suprised at the comments. Wonder if they realize what a huge mistake they made electing Hamas?
20:36 Lebanese PM Siniora: After ceasefire, Lebanon`s army will deploy in south (Ch. 10)
Sometimes I think that those in our generation just don't know or have the will to make war like those of the WWII era, Patton,etc.
Unfortunately, I don't have them at hand.
It's obviously a different kind of danger in a war.......including the fact that you volunteer for it, and that you're fighting for freedom and security...... but in terms of deaths, it's more dangerous in parts of the U.S........and I would guess both NO and DC, as well as LA and probably Chicago and NYC, would be among them.
Let's send some to the Middle East, LOL!
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