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8/1 Middle East Live Thread
Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8/1/06 | BurbankKarl

Posted on 07/31/2006 9:38:15 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

The wife and father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, Karnit, holding a wedding photograph, and Shlomo Goldwasser arrive at Heathrow Airport in London, Monday July 31, 2006. Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on July 12, triggering an Israeli offensive against Lebanon that has killed hundreds of people, mostly civilians.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; daralislam; dhimmis; dhimmitude; hezbollah; humanshieldsrus; iran; islam; israel; lebanon; middleeast; muhammadsminions; muslimcaliphate
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To: samadams2000

1,121 posted on 08/01/2006 2:56:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Dog

00:54 Al-Manar: Hezbollah fighting IDF troops on the ground west of Baalbek (AP)
00:30 Lebanese army official: Israeli air presence over Baalbek `unprecedented` (AP)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html


1,122 posted on 08/01/2006 2:56:40 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: tcrlaf

Let's pray Syria isn't using the WMDs.


1,123 posted on 08/01/2006 2:56:43 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Talk to those who kill their own children, by Jihad/PR ? Remember Beslan.)
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To: conservativepoet

LOL,,,IDF listens,,,,i love it !!!!!


1,124 posted on 08/01/2006 2:56:46 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (cochon de lait nasrallah LOOK,,,UP IN THE SKY,,,,,IT'S A BIRD,,,ROH ROW,,,,)
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To: HAL9000
Hopefully a lie...

ALARM - an Israeli héliportée unit encircled in the south of Baalbeck

BAALBECK (Lebanon) - a héliportée Israeli unit which landed in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday is encircled by the combatants of Hezbollah in the south of Baalbeck (center of Lebanon), according to a spokesman of Heebollah.

1,125 posted on 08/01/2006 2:56:57 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: BurbankKarl

Lol. Que the music!


1,126 posted on 08/01/2006 2:57:20 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: Txsleuth

Download RealPlayer... it's free.


1,127 posted on 08/01/2006 2:57:28 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Talk to those who kill their own children, by Jihad/PR ? Remember Beslan.)
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To: AliVeritas

bttt


1,128 posted on 08/01/2006 2:57:32 PM PDT by petercooper (Is this where I get me a huntin' license?)
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To: Dog; All

GOOGLE Translation of SANA's front Page:

Beirut / Sana.
Lebanese national resistance thwarted a landing attempt by Israeli military helicopters on the East series City / Baalbeck / grappled with missiles and machine guns.

The correspondent of Radio / light / on / Baalbek, said that the reconnaissance planes and military aircraft flying from the evening in the skies / Baalbeck / raided a row on the perimeter of the city targeted residential neighbourhoods and fields Moon / neighborhood berries / destruction was one of the fields, a fire broke out tremendously.

And the transfer correspondent for the people of his / Shamstar / near / Baalbek, said that there were several attacks on the area around the town and that the attempt to landing on the Israeli chain fails East returned to the landing attempt on the series of Western mountains of Lebanon, where a number of successive raids.


1,129 posted on 08/01/2006 2:58:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Terrorism-You Reap What You Appease........)
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To: HAL9000
AFP via translation -

An Israeli héliportée unit encircled in the south of Baalbeck

BAALBECK (Lebanon) - a héliportée Israeli unit which landed in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday is encircled by the combatants of Hezbollah in the south of Baalbeck (is, well is of Lebanon), according to a spokesman of Hezbollah.

Engagements burst between an Israeli héliportée unit, which landed in the south of Baalbeck, and of the combatants of Hezbollah Shiite, indicated for its part the Lebanese police force.

The Israeli unit was cut off in the hospital from Al-Hikmé, located at 2 km in the south Baalbeck, according to Hezbollah's.

Habitans of the area thrown into a panic appellé AFP, affirming: "the Israelis landed. They draw everywhere. There are many died and casualties.

Baalbeck is a bastion of the party Lebanese Shiite.


1,130 posted on 08/01/2006 2:58:15 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Peach

Then let's se what they've got. Let's see what "jihad" really consists of.


1,131 posted on 08/01/2006 2:58:23 PM PDT by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: BurbankKarl

O KIND SIR,,,,got music ????? lol,,,,,,


1,132 posted on 08/01/2006 2:58:24 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (cochon de lait nasrallah LOOK,,,UP IN THE SKY,,,,,IT'S A BIRD,,,ROH ROW,,,,)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

It would explain the flares and the helos trying to land.


1,133 posted on 08/01/2006 2:58:57 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: mewzilla

probably, but even armed with truckloads of Kats, the UN is too cowardly to move.


1,134 posted on 08/01/2006 2:59:24 PM PDT by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: ganeshpuri89
"Hezbollah fighters are defending in depth from interlocking strong points. They have constructed these strong points in order to survive artillery and airstrikes."

I hope the Israelis have lots of Napalm.

yitbos

1,135 posted on 08/01/2006 2:59:25 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Hopefully a lie...

i hope so too, they are a long way from home and any friendlies


1,136 posted on 08/01/2006 2:59:35 PM PDT by jhp
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Hez is claiming they've surrounded the israelis...


1,137 posted on 08/01/2006 2:59:47 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: dynoman

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666691/posts


1,138 posted on 08/01/2006 3:00:52 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: HAL9000
The Israeli unit was cut off in the hospital from Al-Hikmé, located at 2 km in the south Baalbeck, according to Hezbollah's.

There's that word "hospital" again :^(

1,139 posted on 08/01/2006 3:00:55 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Dog

good question.

how do you "snatch" someone in an operation like this anyway? its hardly covert.


1,140 posted on 08/01/2006 3:01:24 PM PDT by oceanview
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