Posted on 07/15/2006 11:24:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
09:19 MDA: More than 20 people hurt in Katyusha rocket strike in Haifa (Channel 2)
09:16 Residents of Acre, Haifa and its suburbs told to enter bomb shelters (Israel Radio)
09:15 Tenth Katyusha rocket lands in Haifa (Israel Radio)
09:15 Explosions heard in Rosh Hanikra (Israel Radio)
09:11 Katyusha rockets hit Acre and suburbs around Haifa Bay (Channel 2)
09:06 Report: Three to five explosion heard in central Haifa (Israel Radio)
08:47 Chirac: Forces threatening Lebanon`s security, sovereignty must be stopped (AP)
08:41 Sgt. Tal Amgar killed on Navy ship to be buried 16.00 Sun. at Ashdod cemetery (Itim)
08:39 Chirac calls for `show of moderation` in Lebanon, says cease-fire needed (Reuters)
08:37 IDF denies report of air raid on power station south of Beirut (Haaretz)
08:36 Hezbollah says it fought off attempt by IDF ground forces to cross Lebanese border (AP)
08:35 Bush urges Israel `to be mindful of the consequences` of its military actions (AP)
08:19 Jewish man arrested after threatening to stab Palestinians in J`lem`s Old City (Itim)
08:15 Al Manar: Nasrallah to give an interview later Sunday to prove he`s well (Israel Radio)
Juan usually is un-real. Too bad Brit was not there for a slap-down.
I read a source earlier today saying two were transfered to Iran. Who knows but I'm not feeling hopefull for them, especially the one kidnapped by Hamas.
That's essentially what I heard from my loved ones also stuck in (South) Lebanon about what "stay put" and not safe to evacuate right now...that it was more a "don't everyone rush to the embassy thinking we're putting you all on the two choppers and taking you all at once" type thing.
That apparently, from what they were hearing talking to the embassy from where they are holed up, that when word got out that American forces were on the ground to begin evacuations, that the embassy was being inundated and that THAT wasn't safe (people congregated, out in the open, nowhere to get for cover quickly, and night coming quickly, etc.) and all those people need to "stay put" until the advance team has everything set and THEN they are STILL planning to evacuate the Americans (that want to/can be reached/etc.)
Of course you are. You're a good mom.
He'll be OK. And we'll be here for you. :-)
He stays, she heads off to Venice and picks up a 2 week cruise via the Greek Islands to Athens...and believe it or not, it's a working trip for her.
Tough job, but someone has to do it..
every time I see Galilee I am so worried they are going to hit a historical site there. Would be a tragedy.
Awwwww geeez...Shep..in Israel.
.........apply it to the forehead...........
I think you are correct. This is an emergency strategy - set in play by Iran. However, if Israel hadn't allowed Hezbollah move into the border area during the last 6 years, they wouldn't have had the possibilty to launch such a strong offensive. Barak, Peres, Sharon, Olmert are all guilty of that oversight.
you just cracked me up
Gosh, Geraldo and Shep - all the news fit to whine about.
I'm here late today...anything interesting happen on the Sunday thread today, or same ol same ol....especially with plugs?
On Fox - coming from Israeli ships. Tanks and runways
Better watch Geraldo....he'll scrawl Israeli positions in the sand....
:D
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM, July 16 (Reuters) - Five days of fighting have given Israel pause to reevaluate the strength of one of its most hardened enemies -- Hizbollah.
Since Wednesday, the Lebanese guerrilla group has killed 12 Israeli troops, captured two others, rained missiles down on northern Israel, killing at least 12 civilians, and badly damaged a navy ship, sending it back to port.
Hizbollah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has appeared on television threatening all-out war and pledging to target major Israeli infrastructure such as petrochemicals plants.
Just as Lebanon's economy has been shattered by Israel's aerial bombardment and coastal siege in recent days, Israel's stock market has been hit by one of the worst Middle East crises in decades, falling 11 percent in three sessions.
"The idea that Hizbollah is some sort of rag-tag militia with AK-47s and a few RPGs is simply ridiculous," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said on Sunday.
"What we saw this morning in Haifa demonstrates that it is a formidable military organisation," he said, speaking shortly after Hizbollah hit Israel's third-largest city with 20 missiles, killing eight people and wounding dozens.
Israel has made very clear that it wants to use its offensive to remove the threat of a well-armed Hizbollah from its border, as well as to recover its abducted soldiers.
A heightened state of alert has now been imposed across northern Israel, including the commercial capital Tel Aviv, as authorities realise the range of Hizbollah's vast rocket arsenal may be much further than previously thought.
Thousands of residents have begun fleeing northern Israel and those who are staying behind are sleeping in bomb shelters.
For Hizbollah, a Shi'ite Muslim group originally founded to oppose Israel's invasion of Lebanon 24 years ago, it marks a very hot return to the world stage after several years of relative quiet in its battle with Israel.
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