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)
I don't know. I'm just looking ahead. All this effort will be moot, if troops aren't sent in to finish this thing off.
he's too infuriating. Between him and Hennican, I want to knock their heads together..
Zelzal
SOFA!!
I'm back from vacation, was computer-less and cable-news-less for the past 2-1/2 days. Motel we were at didn't even have cnn! But you and sofalad were in my thoughts and prayers.
I am very suprised I have not seen him in months but I remember last year he did seem very pro war?
geez, Bush needs relatives like that like he needs a second tochus...
Senor just said something to the effect that: "diplomacy works only when you have someone to be diplomatic with." The libs want us to "talk"--but what reasonable party is there for us to talk with? The Hezbollah clown who wants to annihilate Israel? The nutjob in Iran who is waiting for the 12th Imam to pop out of a well?
Ellis and Bill are both real pissers, the good thing is I don't take anything they say without a grain of salt.
agree with that...to go through this whole business and then not finish it, doesn't make an awful lot of sense..
IDF has told lebanese in the south they only have 2 hours to get out?? Maybe Israel is really going to do it. If they do go in there are 2 critical times to watch for regional escalation. 1) at the point of departure, once Israel crosses the line Hizbullah might go into use it or lose mode and try to launch a couple of their big daddys into TelAviv 2) If they go into the Bekka where some of Saddams undesirables may be stocked and Syria may not like the IDF being that close to Damascus
By Alaa Shahine BEIRUT, July 16 (Reuters) - The only thing left standing at Hizbollah's headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday was the guerrilla group's yellow banner hanging in front of the destroyed building and a torn Lebanese flag.
The heavy Israeli bombardment has flattened many buildings in the "security zone" round the Shi'ite Muslim group's offices. Piles of rubble and damaged cars block several deserted streets.
"We feel the entire world has left us alone to be slaughtered," said Ali al-Amin, a 40-year-old civil engineer who has stayed at his nearby home with his sister and mother because they have nowhere else to go. Many families have already fled.
Posters of Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran which backs the group, still cling to walls nearby. A German flag, hoisted during the soccer World Cup, hangs across a narrow street.
"Hearing the explosions was terrifying. We could not sleep all night and we are worried this could escalate. It's an all-out war now," said Amin.
Israel pursued its five-day military offensive against Hizbollah targets and scores of civilian installations across Lebanon on Sunday, and Hizbollah retaliated by firing rockets at Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, killing eight people.
The Israeli attacks, launched after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight, have killed at least 112 people in Lebanon, almost all of them civilians. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened Lebanon on Sunday with "far-reaching" consequences after the bombardment of Haifa.
The few remaining people on the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs said the scale of destruction caused by the bombing brought back memories of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, when Israel bombed southern and western Beirut after its ground forces had invaded the country to expel Palestinian militants.
"It looks even worse than 1982. People, especially women and children, are even terrified of staying in shelters," said 39-year-old Jamil Khalifeh, calmly nibbling potato chips.
"I am used to this though, and we have nowhere else but here. We are staying," he said.
Hassan al-Najar, 69, echoed Khalifeh's sentiments but said Hizbollah's attacks on the Jewish state were "still keeping our morale and heads high."
Plainclothes Hizbollah personnel toured the area on motorbikes to check the damage, witnesses said. They said they had seen scores of families being evacuated in trucks to the Christian-dominated eastern part of Beirut.
Orange-clad members of the Free Patriotic Trend, led by Christian Maronite leader Michel Aoun, were distributing bread and milk among the evacuated families.
Hundreds of families from southern Lebanon and southern Beirut have left their homes and been placed in at least 21 schools across the capital, but aid workers said such locations lacked basic services.
"They don't have enough blankets, sheets and medical supplies," said Ghassan Marakem, one of the aid volunteers. "The situation is disgusting."
Technically we had cable but it was (as Raymond's dad says), CRAP.
It's been a crazy week with the Sofalad...
Welcome home Fuddy! How will you ever catch up?
Clinton's involvement did have some results....Iran will be a nuclear power, just as NK thanks to Slick. The mullahs and Mad Mahmood would be irrelevant if it weren't for BJ's weapons tech transfers to dictators.
Are you going to stay and help me get through Hannity and Colmes? It's my turn to scream at the TV.
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