Lebanon - Israeli aircraft strike targets in Bekaa Valley (Israel denies report)

AFP via Babelfish translation | August 18, 2006

[HAL9000]

Israeli air attack in Békaa, the east of Lebanon

BEIRUT - Israeli aviation drew with four recoveries Friday evening on objectives not identified in an uninhabited area in the North-East from Baalbeck, in the Lebanese valley of Békaa, announced the Lebanese police force.

Helicopters and drones flew over on several occasions and at low altitude the area of Yammouné, to 22 km with flight of bird of Baalbeck, and drew with four recoveries. According to the police force, shots were then drawn in direction from the apparatuses.

The area of Yammouné is very little populated and shelters a natural reserve.

This attack is the first known rupture of the truce by the Israeli aviation, which however continues its overflights of Lebanon since the stop of the engagements with Hezbollah Monday morning.

[wolfcreek]

Israel has to be posturing right now with all the activity going on in Iran.

[ApplegateRanch]

"Bird of Baalbeck"

It is wacky sometimes, isn't it? "Bird of Baalbeck" immediately made me think of the "genius of Vilnius,"

Gene "Great Bird of the Galaxy" Roddenberry's younger brother?

[gotribe]

Bunch of bad asses who raised turmoil 1970s through the 1990s. Was HQ'd in Lebanon for a time, almost defunct now. Since most of the terrorist orgs have received training from the PLO and in Lebanon, that got me thinking.

I went to the Dept. of State website and looked up the current Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, then did a search for those based in or with operations in Lebanon. Nice hornet's nest there:

• Abu Nidal Organization
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
• Al-Jihad
• Al-Zarqawi Network
• Asbat al-Ansar
• Hamas
• Hezbollah
• Palestine Liberation Front
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• Popular Front for the Lieberation of Palestine - General Command
• Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party

[mcshot]

Have lots of bad things to say about those terrorist organizations in Lebanon but will refrain and close with a wish that it become a reforested terrorist free park.