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IAF strikes Beruit airport

Posted on 07/12/2006 8:38:16 PM PDT by jhp

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3274810,00.html

Reports coming in about IAF striking Beruit airport, if this is confirmed this is another sizable escalation. I think this article ought to be pinned.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; beirut; beirutairport; israel; lebanon
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To: Teufelhunde

The timing of everything has me concerned about our own homeland also. So many areas of the world are a distraction right now - what better time to hit the Super Power who is also Israel's strongest ally. Not being an alarmist but an "on guard" is a must.


241 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:08 PM PDT by daybreakcoming ("We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail")
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To: NavyCanDo

I guess Beirut is reaping what they have sown by allowing Hizbollah to continue to using southern lebannon as their base of operations.



242 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:37 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: rhainw
19 civilians killed in air raids in southern Lebanon.

Weddings, no doubt.

243 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:42 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now we know how the Indians felt when their drunken chiefs sold their land for a few rifles/whiskey)
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To: GonzoGOP

With all due respect, what new and improved Iraqi Army? They can barely take care of themselves in Baghdad and you have them rushing to Damascus?


244 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:43 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: kabar
we've already said that if Israel is attacked we will come to her aid...fact is that as streong as Israel is militarily, that strength is not finite...

War on multiple fronts is a very serious prospect, especially when the number of fronts in this age of technological warfare...

245 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:45 PM PDT by sofaman ("Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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To: nhoward14
They are to busy throwing mud at our soldiers.
246 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:48 PM PDT by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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We have a satellite that picks up middle east tv. Right now I'm watching news in a foreign language (that I don't understand) that is apparently live coverage. News guy standing there talking now with the city (don't know which one) behind him. I don't see smoke but will let you know if I do!


247 posted on 07/12/2006 9:44:48 PM PDT by Miztiki (Pearland, TX)
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To: sdk7x7
" Hey, I worked @ Fox News..."

Worked? Why? No one else did.

248 posted on 07/12/2006 9:45:41 PM PDT by cookcounty (Army Vet, Army Dad)
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To: GonzoGOP
But before they can get there a couple of divisions of the all New and Improved Iraqi Army, with US Advisor's suitably in the background, rush into Syria to rescue their fellow Arabs.

Interesting thought, ten years from now, but right now, Iraq does not have the ability to field an army in anything other than a defense position. They could possibly hold off a concentrated attack from.. Umm... Jordan. With only losing the western half of the country. Mobility is not their strong point right now.
249 posted on 07/12/2006 9:45:48 PM PDT by kingu (Yeah, I'll vote in 2006, just as soon as a party comes along who listens.)
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To: REDWOOD99

How will Iran attack Israel?


250 posted on 07/12/2006 9:45:51 PM PDT by kabar
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To: racing fan; sinkspur; Texasforever
Could be a perfect storm if this happened. Bush will probably do nothing.

I dig at Dubya very regularly on a certain couple of issues. On this matter, I believe and trust him to do the right thing.

251 posted on 07/12/2006 9:45:52 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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To: mplsconservative

I forgot.


252 posted on 07/12/2006 9:45:54 PM PDT by racing fan
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To: spokeshave
Assad's villa next .....any other hot targets for next round....?

Well, they'll need an airport a tad closer to Tehran.

253 posted on 07/12/2006 9:46:01 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("If freedom wasn't free it would be called 'expensivedom.'" -- Mama Cindy)
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To: jhp

Israeli Sgt.-Major Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean, was killed (murdered) Wednesday in a Hizbullah attack on IDF forces on the northern border. Photo: Channel 2

Israeli Sgt.-Major Eyal Benin, 22, of Beersheba was killed by Hizbullah operatives on Wednesday. Channel 2

Their lost will be avenged!

It's time to eradicate Hizbollah & the top Syrian controllers .


254 posted on 07/12/2006 9:46:05 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: daybreakcoming

I hear ya. Up the terror threat level.


255 posted on 07/12/2006 9:46:20 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: investigateworld
Sounds very close to my plot for The Dragon's Fury Series.

IMHO, China would not act until we were wholly engaged/committed in both places.

In my books, we get drawn into fighting Iran and then N. Korea goes south. As we try and respond to that, and in the midst of the PRC playing like they are mediating, our expeditionary force en route to S. Korea gets weigh-laid, and then China goes after Taiwan and further points in the Western Pacific.

256 posted on 07/12/2006 9:46:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head (God, family, country)
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To: All

In the mid 60s, the central laboratory headed by Avraham Makov, was focusing on the development and manufacture of a bomb whose purpose would be to disrupt enemy airfields runways.

The anti-runway bomb is assembled under a fighter's wing, as any regular bomb, and released at 100m flight altitude. Few seconds later, a parachute opens, breaking its descent, steering it at a 60 degree angle, with its nose pointed towards the ground. At that precise moment, a rocket attached to it, propels the bomb's warhead into its target (the runway), penetrating and piercing through its concrete layer.

After a 6 second delay, the warhead is detonated, creating a 5 m wide by 1.6 m deep hole in the runway, preventing its operational status.

The anti-runway bomb received high profile media coverage at the end of the Six Day War (1967), mainly due to its important role in achieving air-superiority by the Israeli air force at the start, and in the early stages of the war.

The development of that bomb was completed a few months before the Six Day War (1967). During 1966, 187 bombs of the smaller type and 66 of the larger type were delivered.

The Israeli air force had an inventory of approximately 200 anti-runway bombs as the war started, and made a lightening and very effective use of them.

Weight: 70 kg.

Warhead weight: 43.5 kg

Length and Diameter: 1.58 x 0.18 respectively

Isreali.weapons.com

257 posted on 07/12/2006 9:46:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: kabar

WHERE IS THE FREAKIN U.S. MEDIA. THIS IS A DISGRACE.


GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


258 posted on 07/12/2006 9:47:07 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: investigateworld

Does anyone know if the first kidnapped soldier is still missing?


259 posted on 07/12/2006 9:47:14 PM PDT by Texasforever (I have neither been there nor done that.)
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To: kingu

I agree with your assessment. China is the wild card. They've gotten themselves in a poker game w/ W and it remains to be seen how far they are willing to take this lame hand. They ain't holding the cards. I say they fold as soon as the IAF takes out Assad.


260 posted on 07/12/2006 9:47:37 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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