[ohioWfan]

BTTT

Thanks, Karl!

[AlexW]

I was just in chat on MSN messenger with an online girlfriend from Beirut...
Here is the edited text. Her screen name has been changed to "R:"

Alex says:
Hey...your still alive.

R:Yessssssssssss

Alex says:
I was just about to send you an SMS, and now I see you online
Alex says:
How is it for you?
I am watching whats happening, day and night

R:... says:
me too when ever we have electricity

Alex says:
at least you still have internet
Alex says:
what part of the city are you in?

R:.. says:
i left beirut now
it was really dangereous

Alex says:
where are you?

R... says:
i went to the north of lebanon
until we discovered that it's not better here

Alex says:
yea, it could get bad everywhere

R:... says:
we didn't sleep all night
israelis airplanes flew over our heads all night
it is scary

Alex says:
Do you have mobile service their?

R:... says:
yes

Alex says:
If anything I can do for you, send an SMS

R: yes u can
R:... says:
tell everyone u know that the lebanese people have no power what so ever to deffend themselves

small children are dying old people

SOS LEBANON

WE NEED HELP

THEY SHOULD STOP THESE ATTACS

WE CAN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER


R: listen not everything u hear on cnn is true
they are americans don't forget that

Alex says:
I never listen to CNN..They are garbage
R:... says:
they don't show the real truth

Alex says:
CNN is as anti American as they come\
R:... says:
u have no idea what it's like in here

they blew off all the bridges

we can't go anywere

we can't even get help

Alex says:
are you near the coast?

R:... says:
it's like hitler has arisen
Alex says:

Alex says:
maybe you can get out on boat

R:... says:
are u kidding?
we can see the israelis boats from our balcony

Alex says:
I understand...You are caught in the middle of a war that has lasted for 50 years

R:... says:
what it's like to be stolen all the time
we have the right as a nation to arise and be succesful
we have extremely high intellegent people here

they are courageous
they can do wonders.

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[angelwings49]

Please add me to your ping list? Thanks so much!!

Mary

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I've thrown together a Middle East Interactive Map that may allow many to better visualize in their minds where all these places in the ME are located at.

You an pan/zoom to simply explore or click from a list to find certain specific places.

Sorry, IE only right now, though I'm trying to figure out why Firefox isn't working quite right.

It's rough (It only took 6 hours :) ) but please let me know what you think!

Thanks!

[InterceptPoint]

From Haaretz.com:

IAF jets target 10 rocket launch pads in southern Lebanon

Any idea how many rocket launch pads in Southern Lebanon? 10, 100, 1000? What will it take to get 99% of them?

[InterceptPoint]

"A senior IAF officer revealed to the Post on Sunday afternoon that the IDF was using bunker-buster bombs to strike at senior Hizbullah officials in hiding throughout Beirut and Lebanon. According to the officer, several of the bunker hideouts were hidden under civilian parking lots. "

Full article is here:

Army using bunker-busters against Hizbullah leadership

[Salem]

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Zec 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.





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[CougarGA7]

Thanks Karl. Glad we are finally putting together live threads on this. Lots of information to digest lately, it's nice to have it centralized.

[Nextrush]

Hezbullah leader Nasrallah is about to speak any minute.
What exciting statment will he make?

[sofaman]

Hey karl...thanks for the thread...

[bandleader]

Chirac has it ALL WRONG(as per usual)!.Lebanon's"Security"is in the hands of The Lebanese Government!!All they had to do was obey the UN Resolution that THEY signed which required them to DIS Arm Hezbollah in exchange for Israel's withdrawal from their country!!!Why is this "Rocket Science"?

[Valin]

Big Pharaoh
http://www.bigpharaoh.com/2006/07/16/me-and-the-lebanese-army/

Sunday, July 16, 2006
Me and the Lebanese Army
Topics: Uncategorized
Not many years ago I visited Lebanon for the first time. I still have good memories of this beautiful country. The people were very friendly to us especially after they knew we came from Egypt. I am not sure if the Lebanese are forced to be friendly to all tourists, but several of them expressed their love for my country and their wish to visit. All what I had to do is say we're Egyptian and keep reminding my mom to hide her Syrian origins! A taxi driver changed his friendly face when my mom told him she came from Syria!

Anyway, I'll write about my trip to Lebanon later. I just want to tell you about when me and my mom went to the Lebanese army club at the seaside. The army we all long to see deployed in the south.

Me: Mom, they won't let us in. I guess the club is only for the army personnel and their families.

Mom: I have the Egyptian army club membership card with me.

Me: Mom! It's the Egyptian army club membership. Hello, we're in Lebanon!

Mom: They'll let us in when they know we're from the Egyptian military.

We went passed the gate. A Lebanese guard came up to us asking for our membership cards.

Me: We don't have them, we're from Egypt.

Guard: Sorry, this club is for the Lebanese army only.

Mom: We're from the Egyptian military. My husband is a general.

Guard: Welcome, Welcome…please go in.

We went inside and I felt like comitting suicide! The place was full of hot Lebanese soldiers' girlfriends/wives in bikinis.

Me: Mooooooom Why don't we have these in the Egyptian army. Why don't the military clubs in Egypt have these creatures..why why?

Mom: We did have them. Our clubs were the best in the region. They all were very open and liberal. The military and police clubs in Egypt had bars in them. Now we can't go to the military clubs anymore, they changed over the years. This is why we never go there yet your father still renews the cards.

We met a Lebanese family sitting beside us. The man was a soldier and he came with his new wife and mother-in-law. The soldier went with his wife to swim. My mom was talking with the lady until I interupted.

Me: Lebanon has a good army, why isn't it deployed in the south instead of Hezbollah.

The lady was silent and was trying to change the subject.

Me: I mean, I just don't understand it. You have an army, yet there are places in Lebanon where they can't venture in.

Lady: Ummm, we don't talk about these issues. Don't ever talk about this here.

Me: Why?

Lady: Intelligence. Syria's intelligence.

[TexKat]

Eight killed in rocket barrage on Haifa - MSNBC

Hezbollah rockets kill 8 in Haifa - CNN

Israel finds bodies of 3 sailors killed in Friday attack

Israel, Hezbollah Trade Attacks - FoxNews

[Valin]

In praise of the human spirit

People who know me know that I am not the biggest fan of Human nature in general. In all actuality, this whole war -to me at least- crystalized what I always stressed to be the main aspect of human nature: Our insistence on killing one another. Since the dawn of time, this is what people did: They went to wars and killed each other. War, as far as I could tell from the world around me, was the normal state of world, not Peace. War is the reality, Peace is the ideal, either choose to be a realist or an idealist. That's all there is to it!

That being said, there is one thing that I always admired about Humans, and that is the Human spirit. Our resilience. Our refusal-against incredible odds- to just give up. Our ability to look the horror of the world in the eyes and tell it "F*ck you, I will live on!" That's also what we do best.

Even when faced with hate…

http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/07/16/in-praise-of-the-human-spirit/#comments
Click on link, do yourself a favor.

[slowhand520]

Have any of you noticed that when Israelis are killed the media reports it as "8 killed in Haifa". This is very ambiguous. When Arabs are killed the media reports as "36 CIVILIANS killed, 12 CHILDREN in Lebanon". A little bit more detail for the bleeding hearts of the world. It's sickening

[Paulus Invictus]

Armageddon anyone?

[yield 2 the right]

Upper Nazareth and another town nearby. no casualties reported so far.farthest distance from Lebanon via Hezbollah, misslies longer range kind(please reply, again if need be, of type of rocket/missile)

[Cage Rattler]

The ship was sinking---and sinking fast. The captain told the passengers and crew, "We've got to get the lifeboats in the water right away."

But the crew said, "First we have to end capitalist oppression of the working class. Then we'll take care of the lifeboats."

Then the women said, "First we want equal pay for equal work. The lifeboats can wait."

The racial minorities said, "First we need to end racial discrimination. Then seating in the lifeboats will be allotted fairly."

The captain said, "These are all important issues, but they won't matter a damn if we don't survive. We've got to lower the lifeboats right away!"

But the religionists said, "First we need to bring prayer back into the classroom. This is more important than lifeboats."

Then the pro-life contingent said, "First we must outlaw abortion. Fetuses have just as much right to be in those lifeboats as anyone else."

The right-to-choose contingent said, "First acknowledge our right to abortion, then we'll help with the lifeboats."

The socialists said, "First we must redistribute the wealth. Once that's done everyone will work equally hard at lowering the lifeboats."

The animal-rights activists said, "First we must end the use of animals in medical experiments. We can't let this be subordinated to lowering the lifeboats."

Finally the ship sank, and because none of the lifeboats had been lowered, everyone drowned.

The last thought of more than one of them was, "I never dreamed that solving humanity's problems would take so long---or that the ship would sink so SUDDENLY."

[Centurion2000]

bump 4 later

[Libertina]

Posted on Drudge:
Ahmadinejad: Israel acting like Hitler

This is the most bizarre line of thinking... The Jews who were the target of extermination are the "exterminator." Only in a completely twisted mind could this be posited as true.