Rockets that Hit Haifa were Syrian

Jerusalem Post ^ | July 16, 2006 | Yaakov Katz

[mojito]

Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said on Sunday afternoon that the more advanced Fajar missiles that were fired with a barrage of other rockets at Haifa on Sunday morning, killing eight people, were made in Syria.

Meanwhile, the names of two of the eight victims of the Haifa attack were released for publication. Shlomi Mansora, 35, from Nahariya and Rafi Hazan, 30, from Haifa, died when a rocket hit a maintenance depot at the train station.

Just two hours after the fatal attack, a second barrage of rockets landed in Haifa's port area and Nahariya.

A third barrage of rockets hit the Haifa area on Sunday afternoon. Nobody was wounded in the latest attack. Air raid sirens had sounded immediately before the Katyushas hit.

Police and medical teams reported that eight people were killed and around 46 people wounded, four seriously and nine moderately, since Sunday morning in the Haifa area. Seven people were lightly wounded, and 18 others were being treated for shock in Haifa, Acre, Kiryat Haim, Naharayim, Kibbutz Sa'ar, Kfar Maimon and Nahariya.

All train traffic to and from the city has been temporarily halted, with service ending at Binyamina.

The victims were taken to Rambam and Bnei Zion hospitals in Haifa. [Haifa Municipality emergency hotline: 1212-466-106; Rambam information hotline: 1255144; Bnei Zion hotline: 1255-145; Karmel Hospital hotline: 1255-142]

[Dallas59]

And fired with the help of Iranian military advisers stationed in Lebanon.

[umgud]

Soon, the rockets that will hit Syria will be AMERICAN MADE.

[silentknight]

In other news - the sun will set today - the sun will rise in the morning. Rain will fall in the United States.

No surprises here.

When do we roll into Syria and Iran? I hope Israel will take this all the way. If not then I fear the war is lost over there.

[AdvisorB]

Israel's day of reckoning with baby assad and the assad crime family is looming on the horizon.

[HarleyLady27]

Go get em Israel!!!!!

[lilylangtree]

Resettlement of the palis into Lebanon, Syria or Iran won't be a problem after this is all over with. Lotsa of land to choose from.

[Natural Law]

It looks like the plan is to force a capitulation from Syria and, once neutralized, further isolate and squeeze Iran Regime change in both places is preferable to any occupation.

[Merry]

The rocket that hit that maintenance building was filled with nails that shredded people to death. Isn't that a violation of the Geneva Convention which civilized nations agree to?

[gotribe]

It would seem to me that the new middle east doctrine of Israel and the US should be: "If you have armed our enemies, then you too are our enemy and we will exercise any means toward your destruction."

[NonValueAdded]

Doesn't matter, SCOTUS gave them a pass.

[Logical me]

When do we roll into Syria and Iran?

Good question. How about negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, negotiate ------. Even if the conflict would halt for a while, it means that Syria and the terrorist in Lebanon will have time to rearm. Then start over again with better Russian, Chinese, and Iranian weapons. Normal cycle.

[dfwgator]

Soon, the rockets that will hit Syria will be AMERICAN MADE.

Amen.

[ASOC]

Attacking civilian targets is a violation unless they are being used in offensive operations - ie, a minaret sniping post.

A train station maintenance building? Hardly.

As for the nails, the US has and used rockets and cannon shells filled with "Flechettes" (nails with little fins for a bit a stability) for area attack and point defense (BTW, don't fly thru red smoke).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechettes

Avalible commercially

http://weapons.travellercentral.com/ammo/shotgun_flechette.html

and, it would seem, we are not alone

http://www.janes.com/regional_news/africa_middle_east/news/jdw/jdw010522_2_n.shtml

The IDF is using a modified version of the M494 105mm APERS-T round provided by the USA in the 1970s. According to a US Army manual, the round is "designed for close-in assault against massed infantry assaults and for offensive fire against exposed enemy personnel". In IDF service the M494 is fitted with the Reshef Technologies OMEGA M127 electronic fuze which is set before the round is fired. At the set range the forward section of the M494 round ruptures releasing approximately 5,000 small flechette darts and a dye marker. The flechettes are dispersed in a cone-shaped pattern which is 300m long and about 94m wide.

Now then, your questions was?

[jiggyboy]

Wolf Blitzer just had some mouthpiece from Syria on a re-run of Late Edition. Wolf asked him three times, point blank, "is Syria a transit point for missiles coming from Iran to be delivered through Syria into Lebanon?" and the guy did the old "Syria is not the problem" routine every time. They're a full combatant and they're going down.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Doubtful. Syria does not have the ability to make missiles. Syria might have bought the rockets from North Korea, France, or some other outlaw country.

The entire Middle East is unable to manufacture even a paper clip much less missiles or rockets.