Snip:
Hezbollah has its political leadership well hidden in the tightly packed suburbs of south Beirut, while its main military command is split between bunkers near Ba'albek and safe havens in Syria.
Its training bases are mostly in the Bekaa (Biqa)Valley and include; Ain Bourday Base (South of Ba'albek) - guerrilla warfare training. Nabi Sheet Base - guerrilla warfare training. Ba'aIbek Homs Road Base - guerrilla warfare training. Wadi Firsan Base (in the Hermel, Bekaa Valley) - terrorist training, long-range patrols, observation techniques, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapon techniques. Wadi al-Yammouneh Base (edge of the Jbeil mountains) - terrorist training. Nabeh El Assi Base (Hermel, Bekaa Valley) - terrorist training.
Asia Times propaganda... yet full of ops goodness, interesting.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HG25Ak03.html
Ok, enough popping up to indicate that a town with a name close enough to the one reported exists, removing my prime objection.
We still only have "Lebanese sources" reporting an IDF raid there, and many parrots quoting them.
If IDF did try to drop SOF in, there is a huge prize there. It isn't the time for SOF raids, for a lot of reasons, so whatever's there is militarily significant.
Or WAS militarily significant, with IAF supposedly tearing it up now.
If the fact of the raid is true, are we now going to hear about mass casualties from the dust plume raised by the bombing?