7/17 Middle East Live Thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1666537/posts?page=3202 ^ | 7/17/06 | me

[BurbankKarl]

09:02 Amir Peretz: We won`t stop fighting before achieving our objectives (Haaretz)

08:52 Barrage of Katyusha rockets hits Kiryat Shmona (Itim)

08:48 IDF arrested 12 wanted Palestinian militants in overnight West Bank raids (Itim)

08:32 Two Qassam rockets land in Ashkelon; no casualties or damage reported (Channel 10)

08:07 One IDF soldier lightly injured in fighting in northern Gaza Strip (Israel Radio)

07:57 Asia-Pacific officials working to evacuate citizens from Lebanon (AP)

07:31 Rocket barrage slams into Safed; no immediate report of casualties, damage (Haaretz)

07:30 Two people lightly injured in Acre from rocket hits (Haaretz)

07:21 Alarm sirens heard in Tiberias, no hits reported as yet (Channel 10)

07:20 Two people lightly wounded by sharpnel in Qassam hits on Sderot (Haaretz)

07:07 Lebanese: IDF attacks Beirut port; large fire breaks out (AP)

07:00 Third Qassam rocket hits Sderot; no casualties reported (Haaretz)

06:56 IDF soldier injured in Beit Hanun (Haaretz)

06:49 Katyusha rocket hits community near northern town of Acre; 4 people injured (Haaretz)

06:43 Two loud explosions rock southern suburbs of Beirut (AP)

06:37 Two Qassam rockets hit Sderot; no casualties (Israel Radio)

06:16 Lebanese: 17 fatalities, 9 of them soldiers, in latest round of IDF strikes (Israel Radio)

06:13 Qassam rocket hits western Negev; no casualties (Israel Radio)

06:08 IAF strikes over 50 targets in Lebanon in overnight attacks (Israel Radio)

06:05 IDF says air raid sirens in Haifa were false alarm (Israel Radio)

06:03 Air raid sirens sound in Haifa (AP)

05:46 IDF: Lebanese military involved in Friday attack on Israeli ship (AP)

05:43 IDF: Radar stations targeted were used in Friday attack on Israeli ship (AP)

05:37 IDF: Latest attacks in Lebanon are against radar stations used by Hezbollah (AP)

05:13 Israel blames Hizbollah after Canadian deaths in southern Lebanon (Reuters)

04:35 Oil surges back toward record highs after weekend of Middle East violence (Reuters)

04:13 13 killed, including 8 soldiers, in renewed overnight IDF attacks in Lebanon (AP)

03:21 EU foreign ministers discuss diplomatic options in effort to end Mideast violence (AP)

[BurbankKarl]

IDF expert on CNNi right now...talking about how Israel is identifying the various weapons that are hitting its cities.

[BurbankKarl]

CNNi also showing Israeli bombing videos.

[Miztiki]

I have DSL. I was just passing along previous requests.

How do you turn off graphics though?

[BurbankKarl]

Israel has asked CNN and other networks not to broadcast live feeds of incoming missiles and rockets.

[Fitzcarraldo]

21:10 Saudi Arabia blasts int`l community for failing to halt IDF attacks on Lebanon (AP)

Mmmmm....

[BurbankKarl]

You set your browser not to download images.

[ScaniaBoy]

And of course al-Jazeera has not complied....

[sarasota]

I saw the CNN babe asking why. Good Lord, don't they get it? Location, location, location.

[BurbankKarl]

They detained the station chief....not sure what the result of that was

[Fitzcarraldo]

There are certainly enemy spotters in the target areas managing beacons and mapping impact sites.

[ScaniaBoy]

They received a letter from Iran yesterday. However, I don't think we should read too much into that statement.

[ScaniaBoy]

I think they've arrested al Jazeera personnel three times already.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Oh, to be a fly on their wall...

[twntaipan]

Would that be CNN? ABC? or NBC?

Or perhaps the NY Times?

[Chuck54]

I thought I just heard on FOX that Americans will have to pay for evacuation? Anyone else hear that?

I assume you to mean that the Americans being evacuated will have to pay for their own evacuation.

I think that is the plan and if you are evacuated you will be sent a bill for transportation.

I had slight misgivings about this for just a brief time until yesterday some loon was on the phone with one of the Networks screaming about how they were hostages . That completely changed my thinking about these unlucky folks.

Playing to the sheeple for sympathy turned me off completely. Get out the AMEX, VISA, whatever. Pay your transportation.

[Fitzcarraldo]

LOL yep

[Straight Vermonter]

Don't make me turn the hose on you!

LOL

[Southack]

"Watch Iran. See what they do."

Nope. Watch the U.S.

Snap yourself out of the old way of thinking...where the U.S. pushed "diplomacy-only, diplomacy at all costs" options and let pipsqueak regional powers push us around in turn.

This is a new game. There is a new sheriff in town, and as long as George Bush is President, Iran and Syria aren't going to do squat.

Saddam Hussein's Iraq has already learned this lesson. The Taliban's Afghanistan has already learned this lesson. Charles Taylor's Liberia has already learned this lesson.

Syria demonstrated that they had learned this lesson last year when they heeded President Bush's demand for them to withdraw their Army from Lebanon.

Libya demonstrated that they has learned this lesson when they peacefully and voluntarily surrendered their massive WMD programs to President Bush in 2003/2004.

You too can learn this lesson.

Which is to say, watch the U.S., not pipsqueak regional nations.

Granted, in the past you had to watch what the regional powers did...but that was a leadership failure in Washington post cold-war.

That's no longer the case. If any other world leader wants to wind up in a jail cell next to Manuel Noriega of Panama or Saddam Hussein of Iraq, all that they have to do is act up while President Bush is in Office.

But since most world leaders are slightly more clever than Noriega, if they *do* plan on acting up, they'll at the very least wait for a new sheriff.

[The Sons of Liberty]

In 2003, Hamas declared President George W. Bush “Islam’s biggest enemy”

That is PRECISELY why, despite short-comings on border security, I am a proud supporter of the President.