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IDF Demolishes Hezbollah Headquarters
Israel Defense Forces ^ | 07/08/2006 | Israel Defense Forces

Posted on 08/07/2006 3:59:35 PM PDT by mdittmar

IDF engineer and infantry forces today utterly destroyed a Hezbollah headquarters in the western sector of southern Lebanon, at what until 2000 was the site of the Israeli Karkum position. Prior to demolishing the structure, the forces identified and destroyed a number of missile launchers, a cache of anti-tank missiles, and a motorcycle used by Hezbollah terrorists to reach and then flee from the sites from which they launch missiles into Israel.


Razing the Hezbollah structure. Photo: Dan Bronfeld, IDF Spokesperson

"The operation's purpose was to scour Karkum, if there were Hezbollah terrorists to kill them, if there were bunkers and weapons, which we knew there were, it was our job to search and blow them up," said Lieutenant Colonel Yishai Efroni, deputy commander of the Baram formation. "As you see, we demolished the post and raised the Israeli flag, and now the D9 [armored bulldozers] are finishing flattening the place."

Lieutenant Colonel Efroni tells of how we have come full-circle: "In the year 2000 I was a battalion commander who was among the people who demolished the [Israeli] post, before that I was one of those who built the post, and now we're destroying whatever is left once again."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; gwot; hezbollah; hq; idf
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To: Grampa Dave

Fun stuff Gramps! Hope you had as much fun making as I did viewing.


41 posted on 08/07/2006 5:44:39 PM PDT by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: mdittmar
Israel should agree to a cease fire only after there are no terrorist left to fire at and not until then.
42 posted on 08/07/2006 6:07:25 PM PDT by NickFlooding (Canceling out liberal votes since 1972.)
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To: jiggyboy

As if anyone there had time for booby trapping it. Besides, there were EOD people involved in the demolition - they could have disarmed the booby trap, especially if the bike was a good, say, a BMW, one.


43 posted on 08/07/2006 6:53:49 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: mdittmar
No ceasefire,no u.n., no giving up more land,no withdrawal.
Guess I won't bother to apply for a diplomats jobs;)

Oh, I don't know, I think you would make a very good one.

44 posted on 08/07/2006 7:01:14 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: mdittmar

"It' Blow'd Up Real Good!"

45 posted on 08/07/2006 7:06:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: billhilly
It's a bad situation all the way around. But the Arabs have brought the overwhelming amount of their misery on themselves. I believe Israel really wants to live in peace, but as long as they exist, there will be Arabs that want them destroyed. Fortunately for Israel they can usually kick their ass in short order. Israel is really holding back on Lebanon, a choice they have made, due largely in fact to world opinion. They could have flattened Beirut in an afternoon had then wanted to. Tyre? two hours.

Having been in two conflicts in the Middle East and over here now for my third, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Arabs that want to cause death and destruction to Israel or their fellow Arabs. They have crapped in their own nest and now they have to live in their own filth.
46 posted on 08/08/2006 5:15:11 AM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: mcshot

Our liberal and islamofascist enemies are such great targets to make fun of.

My enjoyment yesterday was very high at their expense.


47 posted on 08/08/2006 7:37:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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