Posted on 07/19/2006 2:55:09 PM PDT by MikeA
JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes dropped bombs late Wednesday on a bunker in south Beirut where senior Hezbollah leaders were thought to be, the military said.
Military officials said a wave of aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on the bunker. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters, said top Hezbollah figures were thought to be there, possibly including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The officials said the bunker was in the Bourj al-Barajneh section of southern Beirut.
The military said the attack occurred about 11 p.m., but reporters in Beirut said the last loud explosion heard there was 2 1/2 hours earlier.
Israel has said that one of the objects of its offensive in Lebanon is to eliminate Hezbollah leaders.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops continued to clash with Hezbollah guerrillas on the Lebanese side of the border on Wednesday, while Lebanon's prime minister reported a death toll of 300 and demanded compensation from Israel for the "unimaginable losses" to the nation's infrastructure.
As fighting entered its second week, Israeli warplanes flattened houses in south Lebanon and Hezbollah rockets made their first hit near Christian holy sites in Israel: Two rockets hit Nazareth — the biblical hometown of Jesus — killing two brothers ages 3 and 9 as they played outside, bringing the Israeli death toll to 29. At least 18 others were wounded in the attack.
Three heavy explosions were heard in Beirut soon after nightfall — apparently new Israeli strikes on Hezbollah's stronghold in the capital's southern neighborhoods. The sound of the blasts came from Dahiya, the southern district that has been heavily bombarded for days, often in the early evening.
Hezbollah's headquarters, already flattened by strikes, is located in Dahiya, a crowded Shiite neighborhood,
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I bet the Lebanese themselves are providing great actionable intelligence to the Israelis. I think they want this thing to end as quick as possible, and they're glad to through Hezbollah to the wolves to make it happen. And in the end, they know they'll get their country back from Hezbollah's grubby paws if they help the Israelis eliminate the scum.
Some good comments here too: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668731/posts
...wishing we could literally see the heads of all these pigs on a plater.
Wouldn't one of those bunker busting mini-nukes be cheaper and easier to deliver than 43,000 pounds of bombs?
But a reporter says: Who would believe what a reporter says? From watching they are all in support to the terrorist.
There you go Mullahs. Time for your side to suffer a few cases of PST preferably by YOU when you discover your 16 layers of concrete and rebar can be overcome by some pretty neat technology.
Someone is painting the targets....
MOAB . . . Apply directly to the terrorist.
MOAB . . . Apply directly to the terrorist.
MOAB . . . Apply directly to the terrorist.
No.
LOL, too funny. Good use of a REALLY annoying commercial. Notice on that commercial they never once indicate what the product does?
Bring your boats, new lake just formed!!
Making the pebbles bounce.
And a few more goats and camels in Lebanon breathe a sigh of relief.
Let's see if hitting an Israeli ship looks like such a stunning victory to the Turbans after they realize their entire leadership has been sizzled and sent to Hell.
23 tons........whoa.
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