Posted on 08/01/2006 8:26:51 PM PDT by blam
Israel Says It Has Captured Guerrillas
Wednesday August 2, 2006 4:01 AM
By HUSSEIN DAKROUB
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel poured up to 10,000 armored troops into south Lebanon Tuesday, and separately dropped helicopter-borne commandos deep into the eastern Bekaa Valley where they raided a Hezbollah-run hospital and fought pitched battles with guerrillas, in a major escalation of the three-week-old war.
After the raid on the ancient city of Baalbek ended, the Israeli military said it had captured some guerrillas and hit others. The military statement said all its soldiers returned unharmed to their base, but gave no further details.
The raid on Baalbek, once a Syrian army headquarters 80 miles north of Israel, was the deepest ground attack on Lebanon since fighting began 21 days ago.
The ferocity of the battles in the Bekaa Valley and across southern Lebanon on Tuesday and the determination of the Israelis to keep fighting quelled expectations for an early cease-fire, although U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said an agreement on how to end the conflict was possible within days, not weeks.
Hezbollah's rocket attacks into Israel, meanwhile, diminished. Hezbollah fired just 10 rockets across the border Tuesday, well below an average of about 100 a day since fighting began.
Early Wednesday, Hezbollah's chief spokesman Hussein Rahal told The Associated Press Israeli troops landed near the Hezbollah-run Dar al-Hikma Hospital in Baalbek, about 10 miles from Lebanon's border with Syria.
``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 early in the operation.
Rahal dismissed as ``untrue'' reports that the Israeli commandos managed to snatch some patients from the...
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High Value Targets.
HVTs?
Translation, please?
enought=enough
i don't think the hezzabaloos, iran's president or hillary were expecting this
Hey, just for fun, let the Israel army behead one of these prisoners and watch the Arab nations, the U.N. and the media go into hysterics over this. Unfortunately, when it happens to an American soldier or hostage it might get a slight peep from these folks.
Sounds like the IDF now has a game-plan in place.
Perhaps some leaders from the earlier bombing of Hiz. headquarters?
I'll bet the captured some important folks at the hospital.
Welcome to FR chichi. Before you go around bashing Secretary of State Rice, I suggest you lurk and learn for awhile.
There's a lot going on "behind the scenes" you and I are not privileged to know. Notice the relative silence from the international community regarding Israel's actions? Makes one go, hmmmmm.....
We play chess. They play checkers.
Be patient and keep your powder dry.
Shalom.
Never happen
Let's hope they also brought back some documents, laptops, etc...
Maybe the IDF is still having trouble with deeply entrenched positions is S. Lebanon. But by threatening the heartland (Bekka), they force the Hizzies to redeploy. To redeploy they have to move. If they move, they die. If they don't redeploy, the IDF goes after Bekka again.
I must say, I'm a little disappointed this was just a hit and run. I would prefer search and destroy in Bekka. But if the map is any indicator, the IDF force would be pretty vulnerable to a Syrian counter attack there and the supply lines would be all by air.
Thanks very much.
I would be more optimistic about Condi if there weren't so many good people --Perle e.g., --who say she should go. She's a disciplie of Scowcroft and I am worried she will try to go the "stability" route not just with Israel but with Iran, NK, etc.
But we'll see.
What are HVTs? TIA.
Joseph Mengele?
Here ya go:
Cutting their lines of supply and flanking them out of their fixed positions.
All day the Hezbos were saying that they had the Israeli commandos surrounded. Hey Hezbos how did that work out for you?
Thank You
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