8/11 Middle East Live Thread

Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8.11.06 | BurbankKarl

[BurbankKarl]

Love is a Battlefield

IDF soldier received heart shaped cookie somewhere near the Lebanon border...

[Txsleuth]

NO..I was on one side of the conversation..it was halfright that posted that.

[hegemony]

The thing that I'm wondering about is why there wasn't some big ballyhoo coming from Iran/Syria and especially Nasrallah about this today. That seems troubling to me.

[CedarDave]

There is "no substantial, real risk," he opined, of terrorists killing people at football stadiums.

A guy blew himself up during an attempt to get into the stadium at a OU football game last year. It so happened the explosion happened on a bench outside the stadium, so they couldn't prove he was trying to get in (maybe waiting until halftime when gate attendents didn't check tickets). Though he was an Anglo from Colorado, it turned out he lived in an apartment with a bunch of MUSLIMs.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

THANKS to YOU SIR,,,Carry On,,,!

[hegemony]

That one was definitely swept under the rug

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I can make a list of targets bigger than FR servers can hold, all of which would have actually put a damper on western military or political capability, and all, therefore, way more beneficial than old hat plane bombings.

So....is the UK really that close to tipping over, like Spain did?

Italy?

Is there another factor I'm missing?

Or have we just discovered the tip of the iceberg here, with the rest still submerged, out of sight?

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I have the same question you do, please ping me when you find the answers to these question, and I will do likewise.

[conservativepoet]

07:46 Australians opposed to sending troops to UN peacekeeping force in s. Lebanon (DPA)

[CedarDave]

John Batchelor coming to an end for the evening. Here is what you need to know for the next few minutes:

Q) What's the song you always play just before Kate Smith sings, "God Bless America," at the very end of each show?
A) Al Bowlly sings, "Midnight, the Stars and You" by Ray Noble and His Orchestra; recorded in London on February 16, 1934.

[hegemony]

Whatever it's going to be, the goal is chaos.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

RITE,,,Wanna Buy some land in NEW ORLEANS ?,,,LOL

[section9]

Sorry, jeffers. She went to war with a terribly weak and indecisive Israeli government. We gave them thirty days to get their act together, and they never could. There's only so much damage our government can do to ourselves while Ehud played Hamlet. Your blaming Rice is misplaced, and altogether wrong. Olmert turned down two IDF REQUESTS for a major land invasion, and in so doing, handed Hezbollah a victory. Rice stuck her neck out for Israel for three weeks in the hope that the Israelis would do something decisive.

They never did.

Don't blame Condi for a weak Israeli prime minister.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Paul R.]

"Or have we just discovered the tip of the iceberg here, with the rest still submerged, out of sight?"

I vote "tip".

BTW, you have (had) $50 x 10^6? Or was that "OUR" money.

(If the former, want to invest in a small company should the Chinese drive the one I'm working for out of business?)
(Just kidding on that last.)

[Txsleuth]

The answer you are requesting is above my pay grade. I don't have a clue..but it is scary to think that was the tip...

And I was watching CNN a little while ago...the reason they discovered the plot was from one man that was picked up on the Afghan/Pakistan border..and questioned by the Pakistanis...and it all went from there...and most of the "players" didn't even know each other...even though they lived relatively close to each other in England.

[Theophilus]

Once silly, now prophetic

The planners always have to react so that when something that they were powerless to stop, happens, the can cover there arse. The bad guys win the war even as they are annihilated in the battle.

Travelers better practice stripping down and relaxing for body cavity searches. I'd rather be attacked, then at least, I'd have a chance to get my hands around the enemy's throat.

[Txsleuth]

"the need to address urgently" doesn't mean squat.

In these kinds of negotiations..there has to be DEMANDS...I would think.

Shoot...2 months from now Olmert can say, "what about our kidnapped soldiers...why haven't they been returned"..

Kofi, Siniora, Nasrallah, "well, we are getting around to addressing that..and when we do, it will be urgently.".

pffffffft

[conservativepoet]

Earlier, Lebanese sources reported that the IAF had attacked several roads leading to Syria,

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3289944,00.html

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Got me there,,,you must be old as me,,,lol,,,foggy that far
back,,,i'm old enough to remember radio,,,no ac,no tv,lol .

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I wasn't commenting on the quakers, btw, I was commenting on the political establishment in Massachusetts that saw fit to hang both baptists and quakers for their audacity at being missionaries and preaching a form of religion that was basically illegal in Massachusetts (during the colonial period).

It was also a capital offense for a Catholic priest to hold religious services in New Jersey during the same time...although I don't know if that one was really enforced much.