Pitched Battle going on now - Hizbellah is standing to fight

Fox | July 14,2006 | Fox News

[I still care]

The correspondant on Fox is reporting on an important battle going on in Lebanon. He said Hizbellah seems to be deciding to make a stand near a small town and a "pitched, important battle" is going on right now. They are showing pictures of the war overhead.

[InvisibleChurch]

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[JewishRighter]

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Fighting Moves Deeper into Lebanon
16:58 Jul 24, '06 / 28 Tammuz 5766
by Hillel Fendel

The current front: Hizbullah capital Bint Jbel, just six kilometers north of the Israeli border, where a fierce battle is currently raging. Several soldiers hurt, many terrorists killed.

The battle for Bint Jbel, which is considered the capital of Hizbullah, and nearby villages began last night. Bint Jbel lies 12 kilometers due north of Israel's Mt. Meron.

Nine soldiers were reported lightly wounded in the course of the fighting early this morning, apparently by a bomb or grenade. In addition, the forces met up with fierce Hizbullah fire, and the Israel Air Force is covering the ground forces. Several terrorists have been killed, and two have been taken captive.

The IDF had just barely completed taking over another Hizbullah stronghold, Marun a-Ras, which lies five kilometers southeast of Bint Jbel. Seven soldiers were killed in three days of battles in Marun a-Ras. Based on lessons learned there, the current thorough IDF advance is slower than last week's offensive.

The IDF has attacked 270 targets in Lebanon over the past day. Among them were nine long-range Katyusha launchers in the city of Tyre, 20 kilometers north of Israel along the Mediterranean coast. Katyushas have been fired at Haifa and environs in the past from Tyre. Ten tall buildings in southern Beirut were also bombed.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem this evening (Monday), after a quick stop in Beirut. She will meet first with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and Foreign Minister Tzippy Livny, and afterwards with PA Chairman Abu Mazen. Rice is not expected to withdraw American support for Israel's offensive, but will discuss the option of stationing a multi-national force in southern Lebanon. Olmert said last night he would agree to this idea, though he specified that the participating forces must be of European Union member states.

[epow]

CNN now hosting a tearful roundtable of bombed baby milk plant horror stories, complete with prop children

IOW just the usual CNN anti-Israel propaganda show.

I have to admit that CNN has had more and better coverage of the fighting than Fox most of the time, but it has also been worse about showing only one side of the civilian suffering. I have probably seen 10 times more injured Lebanese babies on CNN than all the Israeli civilian and military dead and wounded casualties put together.

[Straight Vermonter]

I don't read Arabic. What is going to cause this enormous change to the ME?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good.

[mkjessup]

Waste them ALL, and dispatch 'em to HELL!

GO IDF!

[harwood]

Why, their jihad against the 'crusaders' and 'zionists', of course

[Armedanddangerous]

One flight of 4 F-16s could take care of the problem.

[Straight Vermonter]

I found the original article by Ralph Peters that had the maps.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899

[WeddingPlanner]

And, where you are, does it repeat itself 3 to 4 times? It should come with a warning prior to the commercial! "Listening to this commercial can cause massive migraine."

[McGruff]

If anyone could supply us poor worker bees with some screen captures it would be appreciated. Especially ones of those meeting their 72 virgins.

[epow]

"Hezbollah admitted in a statement Sunday that IDF troops had taken over the village, but called the move a defeat for Israel. "

Right. And when the Russians overran Berlin in 1945 I guess that was a defeat for Marshall Zhukov and a victory for Hitler. Arab logic at it's frozen-in-the-7th century state of development.

[SamAdams76]

Can somebody define "pitched" battle? And how is it different then your run-of-the-mill battle?

English is a very flexible language but sometimes I get confused with all the possible variations.

[sonic109]

" ...the option of stationing a multi-national force in southern Lebanon "
That is putting a band-aid on an axe wound. Islamic scum must be killed once and for all. It's the only REAL solution.

[ElisabethInCincy]

LOVE THEM ?.. R U INSANE ?.... HAHHAH

[Aquinasfan]

I heard this AM on Fox that Hezbollah has built concrete bunkers in the cities.

[ElisabethInCincy]

yes thats the point is the constant repeating.... HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEADHEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD

[Straight Vermonter]

pitched battle (pcht)
n.

1. An intense battle fought in close contact by troops arranged in a predetermined formation.
2. A fiercely waged battle or struggle between opposing forces.

[SmithL]

After the dust settles, Southern Lebanon may find itself being the new Palestine.