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8/4 Middle East Live Thread
Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8/4/06 | BurbankKarl

Posted on 08/03/2006 9:14:01 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

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To: Conservababe
I see, this morning, that Naz is still sitting on the pot in his threat to hit Tel Aviv.

He's probably waiting for his friends to leave Tel Aviv.

401 posted on 08/04/2006 7:31:27 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters
Hope they have a lot of generators...why bomb infrastucture that's very important? It's very important for "anyone" occupying the area IMHO. Has to be another line of logic behind this?

Israel is not bombing power plants from what I've seen. The pictures I've seen show transformers/switchyards bombed, this is very different than bombing the power plant itself. Transformers/switchyards can easily be replaced, entire power plants cannot. One must remember the MSM doesn't point out this vital detail, but the pictures do not lie, they assume most will be ignorant of the details.

402 posted on 08/04/2006 7:34:07 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: All
14,000 Saudis are barred from travel

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftajdeed.org.uk%2Fforums%2Fforumdisplay.php%3Fs%3D4f7adaa09eaec46b00461483f3c9aa0a%26forumid%3D10&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

403 posted on 08/04/2006 7:34:31 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

I seriously doubt Nasarallah has any friend in TelAviv right now ;)


404 posted on 08/04/2006 7:37:19 AM PDT by jhp
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To: harwood
Protest pictures from Qatif, Saudi Arabia


405 posted on 08/04/2006 7:39:26 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: dynoman

Good point. The MSM doesn't know the difference between a "village" and a small city (20-30,000 people), why expect them to know the difference between a power plant and transformers/switchyards?


406 posted on 08/04/2006 7:40:44 AM PDT by Paul R. ("Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie" until you can find a rock" - Will Rogers)
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To: HAL9000; conservativepoet

I hope people realize the power plant itself probably has not been bombed. See post 402. THis is something I know about as I work at a power plant and have seen pictures of the "bombed power plants" - the pictures are not of power plants but transformers and switchyards. Taking out transformers and/or switchyards causes a very short term power outage, transformers and switchyards can be fixed in very short order, many times in just a few days.


407 posted on 08/04/2006 7:40:56 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Things are getting ugly in the House of Saud. Here's a thread involving some "in the know". Another thread I'm following suggests even more trouble.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftajdeed.org.uk%2Fforums%2Fforumdisplay.php%3Fs%3D4f7adaa09eaec46b00461483f3c9aa0a%26forumid%3D10&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

408 posted on 08/04/2006 7:41:57 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: dynoman

Thanks for this pertinent info--I have questioned the 'power plant' designation. Good handle given your occupation.


409 posted on 08/04/2006 7:44:02 AM PDT by Tarheel (Good fences make good neighbors--R. Frost)
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To: Peach

Peach, this is really what it's been all about, all along. Stop suporting Israel so we can wipe them off the map, and if you dont...threat, threat, threat etc. etc. Now this is completely out in the open. They want another holocaust (while denying there was one) and we're in their way. But their plan is to come and get us anyhow. They would never stop with the Jews in Israel.


410 posted on 08/04/2006 7:44:47 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: harwood

Which thread? - I see the whole list.


411 posted on 08/04/2006 7:44:48 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Sorry, wrong link:

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://alsaha.fares.net/sahat%3F14%40200.LPtDeS9N6KW.0%40.2cc142cb&prev=/language_tools

412 posted on 08/04/2006 7:46:52 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: rhombus

Yes, Rush knows the power of the media, and that is why he shouldn't use HIS power to undermine Olmert during wartime.


413 posted on 08/04/2006 7:46:55 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple
Yes, Rush knows the power of the media, and that is why he shouldn't use HIS power to undermine Olmert during wartime.

Well that's a separate issue from what you were saying before. However, from Omert's more recent actions I think Rush may be more approving.

414 posted on 08/04/2006 7:50:06 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: GonzoGOP; All
See posts 402 and 407, Israel is respecting the "infrastructure" by not taking out the power plant itself but the easily fixed transformers and/or switchyards. If they took out the generator of the power plant that would be a major issue as a steam generator replacement is measured in years.

Isreal may be using the carbon fiber bombs like we have, those things release miles of fine carbon fiber "wire" over a critical switchyard "shorting" it out, but not destroying it. When the carbon fibers are cleaned up the switchyard will work normally. The US has used these carbon fiber "bombs" (cruise missle delivery), I would guess Israel has them too. Of course the media will still say Israel "bombed a power plant", and most, not knowing how the power grid works, will believe it.

415 posted on 08/04/2006 7:50:29 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: harwood

Can you give us a short summary please?


416 posted on 08/04/2006 7:50:37 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: All
Palis attempting Google click fraud campaign in the name of UNICEF

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=ar%7Cen&u=http://www.palestinianforum.net/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D76226&prev=/language_tools

Who wants to report them?

417 posted on 08/04/2006 7:50:51 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: conservativepoet

This is nice. Looks like we are winning the hearts and souls of the locals:

"BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Baghdad on Friday, enthusiastically voicing support for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia."



418 posted on 08/04/2006 7:52:49 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: harwood

please continue to keep us updated about the goings on in Saudi Arabia. By the way, do you feel the need to shower after going to one of those sites ;)


419 posted on 08/04/2006 7:53:37 AM PDT by jhp
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Moonbats by any other name spell as sweet. I'm sure they enjoy the taste of Iranian money too.


420 posted on 08/04/2006 7:54:34 AM PDT by rhombus
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