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.
Let all men take a leeson from this. LOL!
Blair says Syria, Iran risk confrontation
(Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | Tuesday, August 1, 2006 | Adrian Croft)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Syria and Iran on Tuesday that they risked a confrontation if they continued to support terrorism and export instability to Iraq and elsewhere.
In a speech urging a rethink of the West's strategy to defeat extremism in the Middle East, Blair accused Iran and Syria of helping extreme factions in Iraq and backing militant groups in Lebanon and Palestine.
Blair said the international community should tell Syria and Iran that they should either play by the same rules as the rest of the world "or be confronted."
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Has anyone noticed where TS Chris (to be a hurricane within 72 hours) is heading?? Think past Florida and west...
A hundred? The photo makes it seem more like 30-35.
OOooooooookkkk.
I think that is one of the purposes of this battle.
Bibi looks like a REAL James Bond...with a crooked smile. So when is he going to be PM again?
And the man who should take this lesson most of all is John F. Kerry, who couldn't be counted on to defend a gal from a mosquito! What a weeny wuss creep he is!!
I so detest him, I can't even talk about him. I become almost illiterate in trying to write about him and don't have the vocabulary to describe him or my visceral disgust of him.
Kerry: Like I was saying to that Bush..
I vote him for our secretary of state
There are 30 observers in that picture, and I am counting the photographers and the woman walking by in the background. HA!
That kerry rally looks like a funeral with paid mourners.
Uh oh.
You know, this president has had more to deal with than any other president since FDR.
President Bush has got to be having sleeplness night worrying about the perfect storm that could be presented if Castro dies (looking unlikely) and Chavez licking his lips and Iran so friendly with Chavez lately.
Lol...true. Isn't it pitiful.
Tuesday August 01, 2006 7:28pm
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel launched a major attack deep into Lebanon, and Hezbollah said its guerrillas were fighting Israeli commandos trapped inside a hospital in the eastern city of Baalbek early Wednesday. The Israeli army would not comment on the operation in the ancient city, which was once a Syrian army headquarters some 80 miles north of Israel. The Web site of the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that "helicopters put down IDF (military) commandos near Baalbek," without adding details.
The ferocity of the battles in Baalbek and across southern Lebanon on Tuesday, the determination of the Israelis to keep fighting and the minimal diplomatic progress toward a cease-fire all indicate the war is more likely to escalate than end soon.
Hezbollah's chief spokesman, Hussein Rahal, told The Associated Press that Israeli troops landed near Dar al-Hikma Hospital and that fierce fighting was raging after more than one hour.
"A group of Israeli commandos was brought to the hospital by a helicopter. They entered the hospital and are trapped inside as our fighters opened fire on them, and fierce fighting is still raging," Rahal said.
Rahal said Hezbollah was using automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and that Israeli jets were attacking the surrounding guerrilla force with rockets.
He dismissed as "untrue" reports that the Israeli commandos managed to snatch some patients from the hospital and spirit them away in helicopters. Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a July 12 cross-border raid triggered the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon.
Witnesses said the hospital was hit in an Israeli airstrike and was burning. Repeated telephone calls to the hospital went unanswered.
Baalbek is a city with spectacular Roman ruins as well as the barracks of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards when they trained Hezbollah guerrillas there in the 1980s.
The last time Israel forces were known to have gone that far on the ground into Lebanon was in 1994, when they abducted Lebanese guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani, hoping to use him to get information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. Dirani was released in a prisoner exchange 10 years later.
Okay, I'm for that, but YOU tell Condi.
Oh, now, honey -- don't get me started about Bill. Love him. He has five kids! The right politics. But he's a little young for me :-)
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