Posted on 07/21/2006 10:12:59 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
An Israeli soldier maneuvers an armored personnel carrier at their position along the Israeli Lebanese border. Israel was amassing thousands more reservists on the Lebanese border to stage ground incursions aimed at destroying Hezbollah positions, warning it would not rule out a full-scale invasion despite mounting calls for a ceasefire.
I do not think that the press is writing anything newsworthy about this war, the reason is probably that a lot is happening that is not for public consumption.
Curious, the Hezebola site has listed less than 10 martyrs...
LMAO
Better that we wonder and they get the job done!
IDF to residents of Southern Lebanon: Leave today
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670586/posts
If memeory serves, Julie was the one that tore into that religious fanactic. It was a thing of beauty. She just started pulling out scripture to shoot that nut down.
I answered your freepmail...but, just let me say here..THANK YOU!
hehe. T-boned me with that one.
3 Israeli tanks destroyed, 20 soldiers/"officers" killed by "heroic militants"
That link is absolutely not cool, give a virus warning next time would you please??
I knew you were accustomed to the finer things in life.
thanks for posting this, i always enjoy stratfors analysis, even though it usually doesn't play out the way the outline it. From a western point of view this analysis of Hizbullah intentions is well reasoned and may even be spot on, however, i have a hard time believing Syria and Iran did not green light the kidnapping operation or green light the targeting of Hafia. and that Hizbullah did this all on their own accord. In either event i think Hizbullah/Syria/Iran miscalculated the Israeli response and the silence coming from Sunni Arab land is deafening, Israel needs to take this as carte blanche to really clean house. I thought Bush was good today in his radio address, saying that Hizbullah and its supporters need to be dealt with in this conflict. Whether that means military or diplomatic measures . . . i guess we'll find out.
David Gold lives here in the Dallas area...and comes on after Mark Levin in the evenings here.
If you like him, I can give you the radio internet site.
He is also a freeper.
Syrian War Alert from DEBKA:
Syria placed its army on war preparedness, pointed Scuds at Israel from Thursday, July 20, the day Tehran took control of Lebanon War...
July 22, 2006, 12:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our sources add Syrian fighter pilots are sitting in their cockpits.
These orders went out from Syrian president Bashar Assad July 20 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander Brig.-Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi (picture) assumed command of the Lebanon war from Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Tehran’s direct military intervention in the conflict was accompanied by an Iranian weapons airlift which began landing Wednesday, July 19, at the Abu Ad Duhur military airfield north of Homs. The deliveries include large quantities of new missiles, including the long-range Zelzal and Fajr 3 and Fajr 5 missiles, Katyusha rockets, anti-tank and anti-air missiles sent out from RG HQ in Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf.
Assad acted on the assumption that Israel, whose air force and ground forces are already hammering the cross-border supply routes north of the Litani River to block the passage of Iranian hardware to Hizballah, will soon decide to go for Iranian military operations in Damascus and Abu Ad Duhur.
Gen. Safavi has set up two forward command posts which coordinate war operations with Hizballah chief of staff Ibrahim Akil.
One center is working out of a cellar of the Iranian embassy in Beirut to regulate Hizballah rocket fire against Israel and direct the groups of 3 or 4 RG officers taking part in every Hizballah face-to-face engagement with Israeli ground troops in the south.
The second, housed in the basement of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, is in charge of communications, intelligence and getting hardware into Lebanon.
The deliveries were made to the Abu Ad Duhur airfield because it belongs to the joint Iranian-Syrian Scud missile factory which employs a large number of Iranian
engineers and technicians.
We'll just have to grill it up later...
Interesting poem. Thank you for posting it. Reminds me a little of WB Yeats.
When I start hearing this from some site that is not debka, and doesn't use debka as a source, then I'll start thinking more carefully on it.
Sofa...one of my biggest complaints for YEARS, is that these radio stations think that no one wants to listen to good talk radio on the weekends.
Actually, there are a lot more people who work during the week, and would like a chance to listen and participate on the weekends..
That is a real blank slate for some ambitious radio producere I would think.
Is there a good, neutral, summary of the events that have lead to this point in the Israeli / Hezbullah war for someone who has absolutely no background in the crisis?
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