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Posted on 07/24/2006 10:53:04 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice salutes a US Marine as she walks towards a helicopter upon her departure from Beirut after meeting with Lebanese officials.
< MadIvan left us on the 13th of June...after a flame war with Freepers like Sabramerican.
It's a shame...that's all I will say. >
I had missed him and did not know the circumstances.
So sorry.
Col. Amnon Eshel Assulin, Commander of the IDF Armored Brigade, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday IDF troops operating in the village of Bint Jbeil, considered the "capital of terror" in southern Lebanon, had proven their ability to reach any location in Lebanon, and could even enter Beirut if the government decided on that course of action.
Assulin told the Post that that IDF had taken control over Bint Jbeil and had so far killed at least 40 Hizbullah guerrillas.
"The town is completely controlled by us," Asulin said, adding that dozens of Hizbullah guerrillas had been killed in clashes with Golani troops, paratroopers, and tanks.
Soldiers, Assulin said, took the guerrillas captive during the fighting. He said that there were still pockets of resistance on the outskirts of the village, and most of the Hizbullah guerrillas left inside, just under 100, were hiding in the Kasbah marketplace.
The IDF was still encountering Hizbullah guerrillas who were shooting form inside mosques, hospitals, and schools. They take advantage of the population, Assulin said, "But the IDF has high moral values and does its best to avoid harming anyone uninvolved."
The operation in Bint Jbeil, initially slated to take 48-72 hours, would last as long as necessary to kill all the Hizbullah terrorists and destroy the infrastructure there, Assulin said.
"Two tank battalions fought bravely, killed terrorists, and evacuated their wounded comrades from the battlefield," Assulin told the Post when describing the fighting in Bint Jbeil since early Monday. He said that infantry battalions were working cohesively with tanks, and that "one could not exist without the other."
Also on Tuesday, Lt.-Col. Avi Mano, commander of the Keren artillery battalion, told the Post Tuesday that his cannons have fired 3000 shells at Bint Jbeil since the beginning of operations there earlier this week.
Mano said artillery cannons are capable of making direct hits on houses and other targets, while causing more damage than Katyusha rockets cause in Israel.
The artillery battery is stationed along the northern border in conjunction with an artillery officer who accompanies infantry troops into Lebanon to provide coordinates for artillery fire.
"One of our significant accomplishments is that we are helping infantry troops in Lebanon fulfill their mission by providing them with artillery cover fire," Mano said.
The Chinese troops are probably credible, but I don't see anyone else in the mix who is gonna impress me if I'm a Hizbollah hard guy intent on operating in their area.
Now, assuming we're happy with the Chinese being there at all, if they had an arty regiment and a mechanized brigade at their disposal, and the Indians had brought a couple of infantry regiments (one of them Pathans and the other Gurkhas), backed up by two or three battalions of the Foreign Legion, then you'd have the rudiments of a peacekeeping force and not a bunch of spectators.
[The operation] would last as long as necessary to kill all the Hizbullah terrorists.
No mincing of words there!
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Firing blind. They've lost their OP's, and they're shooting from longer range as they back up, hoping to get lucky without forward observation.
This is GOOD news.
Godspeed IDF!
Yeah? How about those Hizbollah car-bombers using 100-lb sacks and crates of nails? Where's that in the Geneva Convention?
Facinating. Will someone explain why Tehran hasn't built more refineries?
Good idea. Gonna try it my niece and nephews when I see 'em.
Get in my belly!
Wonder if they have a big NIMBY crowd like we do in the US preventing them????
By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent
Syria has placed its military at its highest state of alert in recent years, Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Chief Major General Amos Yadlin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. Syrian forces do remain, however, on a defensive rather than offensive alert.
Yadlin emphasized that "neither Syria nor Israel are interested in a military clash but the situation is explosive and the events may potentially be incorrectly interpreted. This could entangle Syria up in a battle against us."
Hezbollah is interested in opening another front for Israel with Syria, Yadlin said. Hezbollah gunners are firing at the Golan Heights in an effort to embroil Syria in the fighting.
Yadlin noted that Syria, together with Iran, was Hezbollah's main weapons supplier during the past years. The missiles that killed Israelis in Haifa came from the Syrian military.
The Military Intelligence chief rejected assertions that the IDF was surprised by Hezbollah's level of preparedness in south Lebanon.
"There was no element of surprise in Hezbollah's deployment," Yadlin said. "During the past year, we passed intelligence assessments on to the decision-making level, including comprehensive information on long-range missiles supplied to Hezbollah."
Committee Chairman MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Kadima) supported Yadlin's assertions and said he was "insulted" during the past several days by media reports indicating Israel was surprised by Hezbollah.
We've heard a LOT of BOOMS over the past couple of weeks.
Today, all we've heard is gunfire so far.
I wish they'd keep it down out there. Noisy scumbags.
:-)))
No, I must have missed that discussion.
Have you tried banging on the wall with a broom handle?
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