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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.
UNIFIL observers killed based in Al Khyam. Exposed to very heavy bombardment according to UNIFIL.
Al Khyam is situated north-east of Metula - on the way to the Bekaa...
Ask Sabramerican
Hopefully a LOT...did you read the article??
The ones that left Gaza are still unemployed and having a hard time finding living quarters...YET,
Olmert comes out TODAY, and says he is going to unemploy, and make homeless, MORE Israelis..VOLUNTARILY!
Maybe the UN team there was relaying Israeli positions to the Hezebola.
See post 945...it has a great map to add to the collection.
U.S. Called Ready to See Hezbollah in Lebanon Role
Steven R. Weisman The New York Times
Thursday, March 10, 2005
[Excerpt]
"WASHINGTON, March 9 - After years of campaigning against Hezbollah, the radical Shiite Muslim party in Lebanon, as a terrorist pariah, the Bush administration is grudgingly going along with efforts by France and the United Nations to steer the party into the Lebanese political mainstream, administration officials say.
The administration's shift was described by American, European and United Nations officials as a reluctant recognition that Hezbollah, besides having a militia and sponsoring attacks on Israelis, is an enormous political force in Lebanon that could block Western efforts to get Syria to withdraw its troops.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah showed its clout by sponsoring one of the biggest demonstrations of recent Lebanese history, bringing hundreds of thousands of largely Shiite supporters into central Beirut to support the party's alliance with Syria and, by extension, the presence in Lebanon of 14,000 Syrian troops..."
Soon the Israelis may be off this map, going north into Bekaa...
Maybe he is going "snooping".
If one of the terrorist nations gave Hizbollah ANY kind of WMD...they're really sweating now. Hizbollah's survival is at stake and they're not likely to defer to Damascus or Tehran on whether they should shoot their whole load...
Why not just annihilate them now. Doesn't your plan imply that this campaign is over and they should just leave the Hezzies in place, give up more land, and wait for the next war? Please say I am wrong.
Perfect location to cut off a retreat from the south, huh?
that is an interesting target - an observation tower located in the gateway to the Bekka. Things that make you go hmmm...
Maybe it was late in the day where he was.
Hey Tx, I just got back and hadn't heard that, doesn't sound good to me. I'll have to check it out.
Agreed, but it wasn't just reluctance. Lebanon removed Hezbollah from the list of militias in February of this year. Renaming Hezbollah a "resistance group" to avoid having to disarm them as a "militia" was open refusal to enforce 1559.
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