Posted on 07/25/2006 10:46:06 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Israeli soldiers stand near bodies, which they claim are dead Hezbollah fighters, after transporting them from Lebanon to the northern Israeli town of Yiron Wednesday July 26, 2006.
Here we go!
Thanks, Karl .... I hope Maliki changes his pro-Hez tone .. didn't like hearing what he said at all.
Good Morning!
Was getting my news only here since the 8-Ball championship tournament was on ESPN nationally all evening long.
Happy Anniversary
Hezbollah fighters?--yeahright--orphans and their puppies more likely, executed in cold blood with hooked clubs like you would kill a baby harp seal, and their organs were harvested to be shipped to the US. Or at least that's what we'll be told by the global MSM.
Bump... Thanks BK...
IBTP
Probably Persians...
IBTP dittos
A large plume of smoke billows in the town of Khiam, Lebanon.
"Israeli soldiers prepare for an operation in southern Lebanon"
The invasion force readies....next stop, the Litani River
That's a big plume, even with a telephoto lens. Could it be caused by secondaries? Don't know much about ordnance.
good morning...blearily trying to focus
Must of hit a Hezbollah weapons stash, whoops, I mean mosque.
By Stephen J. Hedges
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON - Even as diplomatic chatter builds over the prospects of a new multinational peacekeeping force to prevent further fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a lesson or two can be drawn from the United Nations' multinational observer force of about 2,000 soldiers that is already there.
The experience for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, has not been a good one. In place since 1978 and comprising soldiers from France, Poland, India, Italy and a few other countries, UNIFIL was unable to stop the July 12 Hezbollah border raid that resulted in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. It was also unable to block retaliating Israeli troops from entering Lebanon a few days later.
On Tuesday, an Israeli jet bombed one of UNIFIL's observation posts, killing several of its members. UNIFIL has suffered 249 deaths during its deployment, according to the U.N.
UNIFIL's most effective role in the latest crisis has been helping to evacuate citizens, no small task in a war zone where civilian and military targets are closely mingled.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan are expected on Wednesday to discuss - and possibly institute - a new multinational peacekeeping force that could enter the Israeli-Lebanese border region once a cease-fire there is obtained.
But successful prospects for such a force are hardly certain.
...A U.S. government official familiar with the issue said that Rice is expected to negotiate and possibly announce the terms of a peacekeeping force during a conference on the Middle East on Wednesday in Rome.
...Olmert suggested that NATO forces supply troops for the mission, a proposal that a NATO spokesman discouraged Tuesday. NATO currently has forces deployed in Afghanistan and Kosovo, and the heavy U.S. influence within the NATO coalition might make it unacceptable as a peacekeeping force.
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