8/1 Middle East Live Thread

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

[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.

[Quix]

THANKS TONS for the encouragement. The naysayers can get wearyingly old hereon

[Dog]

Bingo!

[casino66]

I think this is an article on Qana. A lot of people in Lebanon are beginning to say the Hez rounded up the kids and put them there for the specific purpose of being killed for propaganda purposes.

http://www.libanoscopie.com/fulldoc.asp?doccode=994&cat=2

Don't know what can be linked to from this site.

[Quix]

Thanks.

[BurbankKarl]

Again?

[AliVeritas]

What's the geography where they are?

[CougarGA7]

Now this I pray is true.

[jhp]

checked papers of all there

checked whose papers

if i were Hizbullah i'd keep those hostages in different places.

[conservativepoet]

"sounds like there is major close air support there to supress hezbollah fighters."

yes it does.

[tcrlaf]

looks like flat, open terrain, with mountains several miles to the west...

[conservativepoet]

"brent sadler...unconfirmed...IDF seeking one of the hostages kidnapped by Hezb at Baalbek hospital...checked papers of all there...took several prisoners."


Thank you for the report.

[bnelson44]

For a map, See:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Baalbek&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=34.013681,36.216774&spn=0.136314,0.343323

[Fitzcarraldo]

Excellent coverage of Baalbek with google Earth.

[bnelson44]

Not sure where the hospital is though

[Knitting A Conundrum]

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.


Psalm 121

[Quix]

PING TO END TIMES PING LIST FOR PRAYER:

Those so gifted and experienced, PLEASE PRAY IN TONGUES IN BEHALF OF ISRAEL AND GOD'S VICTORIES FOR HER; AS YOU FREEP THIS EVENING AND DURING THIS SERIES OF BATTLES.

And, when watching TV, please Pray specifically pointedly during commercials and otherwise.

Breaks from TV for prayer would not be the least bit unfitting.

[AdmSmith]

Hezbollah fighters operate in mobile units of between 15 to 20. They are better armed, equipped and trained than the Lebanese Army. Volunteers are clamouring to join them, but officials say they don't want them getting in the way.

The commanders are authorised to take autonomous decisions because of the difficulty of maintaining radio contact with their superiors and the need to respond swiftly to any incursion. Each unit includes a video camera and film is rushed back to Beirut to be shown on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV. They have their own communications system and a code to fool their more technologically advanced foe.

Two veteran guerrillas, Haj Rabieh and Abu Muhammed, holed up in the ruins of Srifa, just south of the Litani river yesterday, demonstrated how they use cheap walkie-talkies to stay in touch and baffle any Israeli eavesdroppers. Both are schoolteachers in quieter times.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2295592,00.html

[Quix]

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AND PSALM 91, TOO.