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.
Calm down? Us? I've been glued to this chair sleeping 4-6 hours a day for two weeks...getting almost nothing done. Somehow, I have to be a witness to what's happening.
Oh, that explains Merkel re: no ceasefire
But wait, she said a few hours ago that Syria would be a constructive member in the EU.
Source: Tayyar, New TV and other news sources
9:48 Israeli air strikes at dawn on international highway near al-Masnaa; Syrian army fires anti-aircraft missiles against Israeli surveillance plane that entered Syrian airspace
9:46 Israeli air strike on al-Mahmoudiyeh; shelling on Litani, Kfar Kila, al-Khiam and al-Aarqub
15.40: Prime Minister Fouad Siniora contacted Brigadier Michel Aoun, and briefed him on the steps taken to address the situation. The new Brigadier Aun position declared since the first day and supportive government decisions
15.30 : Jazeera correspondent : Israel prevented the Red Cross from reaching the towns of Tibnin, Bint Jbeil
15.20 for a : Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called for a special meeting of the Council and the Chairmen of the Committees to discuss the developments and decisions resulting from the Israeli aggression
15.10: American Ambassador visited Jeffrey Feltman General Michel Awn noon today in the house in Nida, where sharing the developments and current conditions
15.05 : heavy shelling of towns Hula, Tallusah, Markaba and Mays al
15.00 : The European Union calls on the closing statement J An immediate cease-fire
14.50 : Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Matki hold a press conference at the Iranian embassy after meeting with President Fouad Siniora in the large front :
- Must not be allowed to be politically targets Israel has failed to achieve militarily
- We gathered in the Lebanese parties
14.45 : International organizations have proved ineffective in condemning aggression. Agents of the Rome Conference were partners in the aggression against Lebanon. Lebanon's national unity will exceed stage and select the best ways to end this crisis. There is a duty of the Arab and Islamic organizations.
A Google search hasn't turned up anything yet. But with using the keywords: Syrian SAM launch 2006 August, I turned up a site talking about a lesbian named Sam who did something in 2006.
I need to work on my keywords here.
Checking Syrian news sources now...
Iran figures the UN is there just for their wishes. The UN can force a ceasefire because Iran desires one. The UN cannot however force Iran to halt uranium enrichment. As far as I can figure, the UN can do Jack Squat. They are a bloody waste of time, air, and money.
lark presided over the aerial bombardment of Serbia. They killed civilians in large numbers. Neither Congress nor the UN sanctioned these attacks.
He wanted to fire on Russian troops until colleagues over ruled him
He was removed!
Amen.
Sounds like he's going to leave his HEZ proxies hanging in the breeze now...
Sadly, they think they are running the game, when they are simply cannon-fodder in the big machine......
I predict that EU calls for the "Serbification" of Israel will increase as this goes on.
placemark
"Syrian army fires anti-aircraft missiles"
ASSad and his paperwads.
Updates
Rockets ignite blazes in Nahariya area
(21:01 , 08.01.06)
Sirens sound in Maalot area
(20:59 , 08.01.06)
Air raid sirens heard in Nahariya, Shlomi
(20:44 , 08.01.06)
Rocket wars are back.
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I was away and am just catching up--did I see that Weasly Clark was on CNN? Does this mean (please, oh please) that he is no longer on FOX news as their "military" analyst?
Cutting military Syria (archive) Monday, 31 July 2006 m, 06 Rajab 1427 e
Dubai-Arabic. Net
Magazine said "jeans" military, which is exported from Britain. Syria deployed special forces in the Syrian army on the border with Lebanon and Israel. At the time I spoke to the newspaper on the other Western military maximum alert in Syria followed by air defense response on the Syrian Israeli planes approached from the Syrian border.
In the context of a report, published today, 31-7-2006, about the possibility of a military confrontation between Syria and Israel. The magazine "jeans" specialized military from London quoting sources in Western intelligence "saying that Syria has deployed troops (units) of the Syrian army on the border with Lebanon and Israel."
The magazine quoted the same source described as "high" in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, "The Ministry has not seen heightened alert to the Syrian army as those occurring since 1973," Before permission to publish Israeli intelligence officer describes Syrian battle, "defensive."
For its part, reported the newspaper "The Guardian", in a report today, 31-7-2006 from Damascus, that Syria had "made last week show the state of preparedness of the military to the highest level and prevented from leaving the army Kotaathm. With the Syrian military units both in the case of full combat readiness were distributed fighting units and weapons in diplomatic source described it on the defensive. "
The report of the British newspaper The last few days have seen firing by the troops on the Syrian Israeli planes approached from the Syrian border.
It should be noted that a source in the Syrian Air Force denied a few days ago that the Syrian antibiotics [antiaircraft?] has dropped [downed?] yesterday Israeli spy plane entered the atmosphere of the country. The source said "the Russian news agency" that Israeli planes had attacked positions of the Syrian air defense forces.
The newspaper Major Lebanese published a news item a few days ago stating that "antibiotics Syrian air dropped an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft entered Syrian airspace coming from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, Israeli planes bombed in response to the location of the defence forces Syrian Air."
It consists of the Syrian army from : air forces, naval forces, units, the Special Republican Guard, The ground forces, the so-called army regulars and a group of Corps, which includes all three military teams at least.
Syria participated in 1990 and 1991 from 14 thousand strong component of the troops (units) of the international coalition led by the United States in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The number of Syrian armed forces of more than 300 thousand element, including 14 thousand with radar and anti-aircraft weapons were deployed in Lebanon before the withdrawal last year. As there are 345 thousand reserve.
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