Posted on 07/17/2006 10:49:45 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Are you ready for a cruise?
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2006/20060717_5677.html
"U.S. Contracts Cruise Ship For Possible Lebanon Evacuations"
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2006
I feel for you. I saw the footage of some of the French people leaving last night. The report siad (not that I assign much credibility to the media) that it might be three or four days before the U.S. citizens might be evacuated.
This is disgraceful. You guys should already be out.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/07/18/understanding_the_temper_of_the_times
"Understanding the temper of the times"
By Cal Thomas
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In chronicling the number of armed warriors who joined David at Hebron, there is this exquisite line: "All these men understood the temper of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take." (1 Chronicles 12:32, New Living Translation)
For roughly 4,000 years there has been "unrest" and war in the Middle East. It possibly began when the ancient Israelites drove out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites. Modern Israel is attempting to drive out Hezbollah-ites, Hamas-ites, Islamic Jihad-ites and the rest.
Nothing has changed, except Israel may be in greater peril today than at any time in its modern history. "
The USS Gonzalez is in the area, and will escort the cruise ship....maybe a sub lurking (most likely) under water...they are waiting on the cruise ship...but they said it is going to have to make 10 trips or something.
gonna turn in...thanks for the thread Karl..great work, as always. have a good night and see you in the am..
Jul. 18, 2006 0:14
Pilot who bombed Nasrallah's bunker: 'We will get them all'
By YAAKOV KATZ
jpost.com
"We will get them all in the end," Capt. A, one of the pilots who bombed Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's underground bunker Sunday night, declared on Monday, minutes before boarding an F-16I fighter jet on his way to another sortie over Lebanon.
On Saturday night, the IAF bombed and destroyed Nasrallah's home and office in the neighborhood of Dahiya in southern Beirut. Dahiya, a high-ranking IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post on Monday, was a Hizbullah stronghold and only terrorists affiliated with Hizbullah were allowed in and out. On Monday, the IAF continued to strike an underground bunker in Dahiya which was believed to be Nasrallah's current hideout.
"It is a closed-in terror capital," the officer said of Dahiya. "Only card-carrying Hizbullah operatives are allowed inside after passing through an armed checkpoint."
Nasrallah, the officer said, had been holed up in the bunker ever since the IAF began bombing Beirut last week. "He has not seen the light of day," a senior Military Intelligence officer told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
IAF fighter jets from Squadron 101 have been running daily bomb raids on the bunker, the main Hizbullah nerve center. Since two soldiers were kidnapped in a Hizbullah attack along the northern border last Wednesday, the squadron has bombed hundreds of targets from the Hizbullah bunker to bridges, Katyusha rocket launchers and weapons warehouses. The IAF has been using bunker-busting missiles in its air raids on the Hizbullah bunker.
"The public should know that the air force is working hard and achieving the goals it has set for itself even though Katyusha rockets are falling in Israel," Capt. A. said. "The public should be calm... we will get them all [Hizbullah leaders] in the end, wherever they may be, since no terrorist has immunit
bookmarking for tomorrow morning.
That is the craps. Sorry to hear you are still in Lebanon.
I saw on TV British choppers taking 40 or so Americans out that had health problems.
FOX News right now is showing and interviewing the task force in the State Dept. to get you folks out.
I think one of the problems is getting cruise ships together and get them off coast.
Hang in there.
Ynet News is reporting that Iran is sending its foreign minister to Damascus to demand that Hezbollah curtail attacks against Israel and release the captured Israeli soldiers.
Evidently Iran has been warned that Israel is about to strike Syria and they are now asking Syria to step in and pressure Hezbollah in order to avoid such an escalation.
Anyone else heard this report yet?
http://www.ynetnews.com
that is some interesting news
70 Katyushas in Under an Hour; Only One Moderately Hurt
10:36 Jul 18, '06 / 22 Tammuz 5766
by Hillel Fendel
However, doesn't look like Hizbullah is just going to take this laying down
Haven't heard the report yet, but it'd be more of the play-acting we've become used to. Iran trying to distance itself from its own actions by telling Syria to do what Syria wants to do anyway. Yep... same old, same old.
"U.S. Contracts Cruise Ship For Possible Lebanon Evacuations"
I think we get a group rate with three. Two for Katrina, one for Lebanon.
well, its a little different than what we've been hearing publicly, that is Israel doesn't want to involve Syria, now this report says: Syria you are going to get hit if you don't call of your Hizbullah dogs
Thought you'd find this interesting. If true, this is very good news indeed. Link at post #49.
Hizbullah has rejected the proposal, however. While its arch-terrorist leader Sheikh Nasrallah remains trapped under the ruins of a building for the fourth day, a spokesman for the group, Hussein Haj Hassan, said the ideas were rejected because they include Israeli demands. Israel must cease its fire unconditionally, Hassan said.
Nasrallah appeared on Lebanese television screens on Sunday in a pre-recorded speech, warning Israel of "more surprises."
70 Katyushas in Under an Hour; Only One Moderately Hurt
Propaganda, psy-op, wishful thinking, or info from well connected sources?
That's what gets confusing with all of this information that's coming out. It's hard to tell what's propaganda and what's truth.
Israel isn't going to cease fire unconditionally, though. And they shouldn't.
I believe you're right.
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