Posted on 07/20/2006 10:33:33 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
An Israeli soldier scouts the area near the Israel-Lebanon border, July 20, 2006.
I wish I knew the details. Where's Knitting A Conundrum when we need her?
what do you think the Christians in the Lebanese military will do?
And there's Berger...did he ever receive any punishment?
Bad news...Hezbollah knows what it is doing....anyone familiar with the Battle of Okinawa can see that they have taken a page out of the Japanese Imaperial Army's defense strategy by building tunnels to house themselves and their rockets.
The IDF is going to have to pay a price similar to our Marines in April-June 1945 to root these forces out.
Exactly right
I am beginning to hear a international consensus about what needs to be done to resolve this issue and it is inserting an international force bwtn the litani river and the border to keep Hizbullah out, Ginsberg was on fox just now saying israel will degrade hizbullah and then this force will come in to set up the buffer. All the talk from the MSM and frankly even out of Israel is that airstrikes and "limited" ground ops will hurt Hizbullah enough. I don't buy it and i think everybody is burying their heads in the sand. The only way to force hizbullah north of litani is by way of extreme force. These folks are well dug in, in rough terrain and they have been itching for this fight for 6 years. Somebody is going to have to do the heavy lifting to get them out or else this whole military conflict will be for naught. limited Israeli operations are not going to cut it. Mark my words - we will be doing this all over again in short order if Hizbullah is not FORCED out, they will not be leaving on their own. Olmert & co. better figure this out. I hope all this talk of limited and pinpoint raids is just that - talk
Special forces have been there....Sayaret.
Most of the Syrian -Israeli Tank battles in 82 happened on the western flank of Bekaa.
Syria got bloodied good!
Alot of air battle over Bekaa in 82.
Bekaa was were Syria deployed its first SAM brigades in 81.
Israel used RPV's for video of Syrian SAM grid in Bekaa in 82,...They only had a few RPV's to paint the SAMS for IAF,anyhoo...they did the trick...and Syria got pasted : )
They will serve. Or they will be hunted down like dogs.
what a tough spot for them
Exactly. We will break the back of terrorism. The world knows we have no choice.
Some passengers praised the work of the U.S. forces.
"I have to say everyone in the navy was incredible. They gave so much more than we expected. They carried our luggage, they gave us food, they did everything for us," said Rosana Ayoub, 22, a medical student from California.
The amphibious transport ship USS Trenton, the biggest boat so far involved in the evacuation, was due to deposit nearly 2,000 people at Larnaca in the early hours of Saturday.
The Pentagon said about 4,400 Americans were taken out of Lebanon on Friday by sea and air, the largest single day total to date in the operation.
France, Lebanon's former colonial ruler, said it had evacuated some 3,000 of its nationals so far from Lebanon. Around 2,000 have already been flown back to Paris on specially chartered flights.
Not necessarily. There is a lot of infighting there. We shall see.
this Rosana is a good American. No expectations, just grateful.
Thank you! I had been there, but didn't see the little teeny tiny itsy bitsy box on the left which offered the video. I thought it was just text. Cool! :-)
It appears that a few are getting their first lesson in reality.
I think Tucker would like to be in safer terrain. Smart move.
Escalation of Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Friday, July 21, 2006-6:35
Beirut / Sana
The agency said that the Lebanese National Information escalated Israeli attacks on the city of Tyre and villages and towns by air and land.
The agency added that the enemy aircraft raided densely afternoon included the towns of Haniyah, Wadi Zibqin which have been hit by artillery bombardment center inside the occupied territories and the expansion of the bombing hills Zibqin note of the people and Jabal al-Butm and Heights Shama said that nearly three in the afternoon launched hostile aircraft raids bomb insisted Arch outlying areas between the few and `aytiyah and the Prophet called Amran in the few.
The Agency pointed out that hostile aircraft bombed parties Yatar, Zibqin, Siddiqin and Jibal al-Butm and his plaster and random shelling also Hinniyah, adjacent to the headquarters battalion Chinese operating in the south also raided flying Israeli enemy on the road Gasibh al Nabatiyah led to the robbery in addition to the Israeli raid on i Rik fever Arnon Yuhmur the latest hole on the side of the road.
And another Israeli enemy delivering leaflets over the area of the villages of southern Lebanon pictures calls for the evacuation of the area south of the Litani River to the north.
The agency said that the Lebanese Israeli warplanes also attacked the fuel station at Dayr coincided with the fierce bombardment on the meadow in the province Yuhmur Shaqif and random shelling of the shores of the Litani River.
On the other hand, caused the Israeli aggression against Lebanon environmental disaster along the beach Lebanese complained Jubail and even Sidon represented a spot Swade composed of oil and diesel showed strongly on the beach of the capital, Beirut.
The Beirut Municipality to spot black scattered on the beach of Ramla white and the other on the coast of Beirut, Lebanon resulting from the leakage of diesel and deposits of oil and oil engines ships evacuate foreign nationals and lab station thermal and reservoirs of fuel other on the beaches, as well as leakage of such materials from the warship a Lehrbeh Israeli hit an appeal chamber of international navigation as well as the United Nations request not to throw every ship petroleum products in the Lebanese territorial waters.
Alert!! Shep Smith now has an hour to PO all of us!
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