Posted on 08/03/2006 11:34:01 AM PDT by mojito
Israeli commandos made their daring raid on a Hezbollah hospital because they believed that the two soldiers whose kidnapping started the Lebanese war had been treated there, sources revealed yesterday.
The commandos didn't find the Israeli soldiers but they seized five Hezbollah fighters, killed at least 10 others and took a treasure trove of intelligence documents when they escaped, as they came, by helicopter.
The bold foray into the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, about 80 miles north of the border, stunned war watchers.
But a high-ranking Israeli official said there had been 14 other commando raids since the fighting began, including at least five in the Baalbek region - and some even deeper into Lebanon.
In yesterday's raid, one group of commandos, backed by helicopter gunships and unmanned drones, landed in the Bekaa Valley city after midnight, within sight of ancient Roman temples, sources said.
After the town's electricity was cut off, they swept into the Iranian-run Dar al-Hikma Hospital and killed four heavily armed guards.
Then they searched the building from the top floor to its basement, which was described as a Hezbollah headquarters.
They found a large cache of weapons, including Kalashnikov rifles, and seized computers, cellphones and what one official called an "enormous' amount of Hezbollah documents and other valuable intelligence information about the terrorist group.
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Two major things happened. Well three actually. They got some Hezbo leaders. Second, a treasure trove of intell with computers and satellite cell phones and they got in and out with no IDF casualties.
It must have really oohrah'd the morale of IDF and it's special forces.Go Israel!
seized computers, cellphones and what one official called an "enormous' amount of Hezbollah documents and other valuable intelligence information about the terrorist group.
You want reliable intelligence?
What is it with the media's infatuation with AK-47s? It's a given that terrorists will be carrying an AK 98% of the time. It's like they get all warm and fuzzy when their fingers can type the word "Kalashnikov".
Did their publishers give them an assignment or something? "Use the word 'Kalashnikov' no less than 3000 times this year."
Sheesh!
"The IDF soldiers are probably in either Damascus or Tehran."
If true this would be foolish indeed on the part of the Iranians and Syria.
"Did their publishers give them an assignment or something? "Use the word 'Kalashnikov' no less than 3000 times this year." "
Hahahaha! Has a certain "ring" to it doesn't it?
Agree. There's no possibility of negotiating.
Just win baby.
A very productive raid!
This reminds me of a point regarding the nuking of Japan. We saved hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives with those bombs. They were predicting a million American casualties in an invasion of Japan. Those were averted, and that fact is commonly noted. What is less noted is that we probably would have had to kill 2-4 million Japanese in such an invasion.
We did them a favor with those nukes.
"But a high-ranking Israeli official said there had been 14 other commando raids since the fighting began, including at least five in the Baalbek region - and some even deeper into Lebanon."
Shows what you can get done when you don't have the LameStreamMedia tagging along as embeds.
bttt
Anyone have the Google Earth .kmz file for the Dar al-Hikma hospital?
Shoulda blown the hospital to hell after they found the weapons cache and Hezbollah HQ there.
Actually the funny part is they probably are NOT carrying AK-47s - they carry AKMs, or AK-74s. Their high muckity-mucks carry AK-74SUs.
"There are such things as national sins, and though the punishment of individuals may be reserved to another world, national punishment can only be inflicted in this world." - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis #2, January 13, 1777.
It's the only weapon most of them (and their readers) could pick out of a line-up. When they try to name other weapons, they almost always get it wrong and end up looking as stupid as they are. By pointing to an AK and correctly identifying it, they can make themselves look "informed".
That's also why they always use a picture of an AK when talking about "assualt weapons" bans.
Plus it looks exceptionally scary, especially when held by some dish-towel clad thug who probably couldn't hit the ground with one.
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