8/3 Middle East Live Thread

8/2 Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8/3/06 | BurbankKarl

[Txsleuth]

Okay...I changes the channel...CNN was doing yet another story about Qana...blech

[Mr Cobol]

Iran wants it to continue I'm sure, fits their plan for chaos for the return of the Imam.

Nass is going to down in a blaze of glory.

[dogcaller]

I hope that some second or third tier folks in Beirut are getting real nervous about their ongoing viabilty as breathing entities and have started providing the IDF and IAF with some current intelligence. As in any physical system increasing pressure causes changes; expected and unexpected. God willing the some of the rats will start trying to save themselves by dropping a word or two on assets and leadership.

[AliVeritas]

Hiz and Ham... hmmm

[conservativepoet]

I've read reports where over 70 "spies" for Israel have been captured and many executed by Hezbollah

[Straight Vermonter]

I've read reports where over 70 "spies" for Israel have been captured and many executed by Hezbollah

Very likely they were former members of the South Lebanon Army. The SLA is hated by the Hezbians.

[wolficatZ]

AWESOME little video at youtube, if anyone hasn't seen it yet give it a go...

btw, youtube is going down for a little maintenance at 9pm PDT..so catch it now or wait till they finish.

"IDF -BROTHERS IN ARMS"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wahd2piIr4Q&mode=related&search=

[Longbow1969]

The worst on CNN is this appeasement monkey broadcasting from Beirut the last few days.

I didn't get his name, but man is he horrible.

The last report I saw was him whining that Hizbullah is still stronger than ever and that the Israeli attacks have been pointless. Last night he ranted on and on about how horrible Israel is for disrupting the lives of Lebanese in the wonderful cosmopolitan city of Beirut.

He's obviously some Euroweasel who openly hates Israel and believes terrorist groups such as Hizbullah are reasonable if we would only try to understand them and work together to get at the root causes of the problem.

That Israel's very existance is the root cause of the problem for Hizbullah doesn't seem to have occured to this idiot.

[AliVeritas]

You saw this map?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1676188/posts?page=151#151

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The spinmaster, he sparkles with soundbites and experts.
Come gaze at his methods: select shade and assert
A fake but acurrate view, view, view.
My, my, we sigh.
My, my, we sigh.

(apologies to Donovan, and extra brownie points if you recognize the song this is a parody of. It is not the first verse.)

[AliVeritas]

Heads Up, From the Threat Matrix:

Police Looking For Stolen Nuclear Device

RENTON, Wash. -- Police in Renton are looking for a nuclear device that was inside a car that was stolen last month.

The device is inside a large yellow box with warning stickers on the outside.

The device looks like a scale. It's 18 inches tall and is used to measure ground moisture.

Police in Renton are looking for a moisture density gauge that is missing after a car that transported the device was stolen. The device contains radioactive material.

The vehicle used to transport the device was found on July 21, but the device was not inside.

Police said anyone who sees the device or knows where it is should call 800-486-6922.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/9624197/detail.html

[Straight Vermonter]

I believe someone posted upthread the before/after pictures when Israel first bombed there.

Here is a repost in case others, like me, missed it.

[Txsleuth]

CNN has so many pitiful reporters that seem to be rooting for Hezbollah...that it could have been any of them.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

was great...

[racing fan]

Police Looking For Stolen Nuclear Device
___________________________________________________

Is this related to that guy who killed several people a week ago?
I remember reading that his dad or uncle worked in a nuclear facility.

[Conservababe]

I believe it was CNN who showed it yesterday. It is over a square mile, more or less.

[GonzoGOP]

'God willing the some of the rats will start trying to save themselves by dropping a word or two on assets and leadership."

If the bearded one had any brains he would arrange for Israel to find out where their kidnapped soldiers are located. And for them to be lightly guarded. Once the IDF rescues them, thus achieving their stated reason for going to war, it would be much harder to justify not negotiating a cease fire.

Nas could claim he didn't give them back and fought the good fight. Arabs seem to be very willing to forgive defeat. But if the war keeps going Nas is going to be obliterated. Iran and Syria are not getting in. If they were going to fight they would have jumped in when Israel was reeling after the fake massacre story. The US is stalling, making sure that the UN bureaucracy gives Israel all the time they need.

Nas may be too stupid to do it, but some lesser member may turn the troops over to Israel. This would serve two goals. First, saving his own life, and second it would make it look like it was the bearded one who dropped the dime, hence moving up the food chain.

[Straight Vermonter]

Sunny Goodge Street

[AliVeritas]

GOTTA SEE THIS-War for End.Freedom 8/3/06-Aamchit,Al-Karak,Bekaa,Jajoune,Kefar Jaouz,Marun Al-Ras

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676793/posts