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.
17:32 PDT More details on the action in Baalbek. Eyewitnesss claim dozens of IDF helicopters over the city and air strikes to the hills north and east. Electricity to the town and surrounding areas is cut off. IAF helicopter gunships are attacking the Hezbollah outside the hospital. (Haaretz)
17:15 PDT Via a link from Little Green Footballs: Jerusalem Online gives a recap of today’s news from Isreal’s Channel 2 TV, dubbed in English.
17:12 PDT Selective Eviction Notices: Israel urges some Lebanese north of Litani to leave. (Reuters AlertNet )
17:09 PDT Who is fooling who? US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a ceasefire in Lebanon will be reached in days but Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres says fighting may go on for weeks (Ynet)
16:51 PDT The situation in the Baalbek raid remains confused. “It remains unclear whether the operation was successful, but witnesses said ‘the Jews took some people with them.” (AP/Ynet)
As Chesty Puller once said, "Good, now the bastards can't get away" (When the Marines were surrounded at the Chosen Resovoir in North Korea.
Horowitz back on Carter, again! GOOD!
The book The Real Jimmy Carter is enough to make you sick; stuff we didn't know or didn't remember - behind the scenes stuff that I hadn't known about Carter.
Horowitz: Carter is out there wagging his finger at the Israelis. And all these people who want to leave Hezbollah in place lobbing rockets in Israel...
Watch your back, front and side Assad!!! Be a good boy now!!!
Just come armed.
Or
Good, we're surrounded. Now we can fire in any direction.
However, someone said McCarther said that. I don't know but it was excellent anyways.
But they are special ops guys. They will handle themselves.
Is FR slow for anyone else?
Horowitz, "Carter is a moral and national disgrace"
FINALLY! Someone had the guts to come out and say this.
I'm sure the cryptkeeper had a real snitfit over that one.
Boy, I just let the cat in and stepped out on the porch. It is unbelievable hot for after dark...just checked the temperature and it is 86 right now! Plus we have 100% humidity!
That was hilarious!
Nodding.
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