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)

[Rte66]

Aha, a Texan to tell this to. NBC News was just talking with some American students stranded in the airport in Beirut. (That's what they *said* - Beirut.)

One girl they talked to goes to American U and was blogging on her laptop. They said she was from NATCH - UH - TOE - CHUZ, Texas.

Now, I don't know if she was from Nacogdoches, TX, or from Natchitoches, LA - but either way, they were so far wrong on their pronunciation, they obviously didn't hear her *say* her hometown to them.

How do they come up with this stuff? Did she *say* Nack-uh-doe-chuz - or did she *say* Nack-uh-tawsh? She obviously did not say anything that started with "Natch." What in the world did they write down in their notes to mangle it so badly? Grrr.

[BurbankKarl]

CNN PIPELINE has a feed from NBN of S Beirut...I saw one explosion about 20 minutes ago...there goes another one.....sounds like stereo!

[NewConservTexan]

Question: If Israel's goal is to invade far enough into Lebanon to insure that the missiles cannot strike Israel essentially creating a buffer zone, THEN as Hezbollah attempts to fire longer and longer range missiles then don't they in essence give Israel license to invade farther or bomb further and further away from the Israel border?

Seems to me Hezbollah would be better of to claim it had no long range missiles WHILE this was going on.

[RDTF]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277464,00.html

War in north: Support in New York, condemnation in Berlin

Thousands demonstrate in support of Israel in front of UN headquarters in New York, but in Berlin more than 1,000 Lebanese, Palestinians chant ‘death to Israel, while some carry placards bearing the image of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Yitzhak Benhorin

[popdonnelly]

"the Israeli people couldn't handle a ground invasion of Lebanon due to casualties"

Just keep bombing and shelling Hezbollah. We'll supply the bombs.

[ArmstedFragg]

1. I heard someone on CNN reporting
2. I hope it was just a left winger talking.

Number two is the answer to number one.

[BurbankKarl]

There goes another one.....people keep looking over at my office...

[BurbankKarl]

There goes another one.....people keep looking over at my office...

[prairiebreeze]

Fred Barnes was just mentioning on the Panel that Condi may be going soon. Is that the latest or is Fred behind the curve?

Thanks for any info I've been completely away from the computer and any updates today.

[CAluvdubya]

Karl, can you post a link to CNN pipeline, please? I wanna hear the bombs!

[BurbankKarl]

It is subscription...

cnn.com/pipeline

[RDTF]

someone started a live thread to watch drama queen Shep live from Israel (the mods moved it to chat)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1667457/posts

[CAluvdubya]

Thanks! I may sign up for this one!

[BurbankKarl]

Someone in the background is American, giving a live report...said 12 bombs have fallen so far.

[McGruff]

OMG! Brit Hume just showed a video of Dick Cheney head butting Vladimir Putin and him falling to the ground!

[Straight Vermonter]

I think that go right up there with Dukakis on the tank and Kerry in the bunny suit.

[ArmstedFragg]

people keep looking over at my office...

It's those "Yahoo's" you keep yelling.

[Straight Vermonter]

The road bombing is not so much to trap Hizb'allah as it is to keep them from moving more missiles close to the border.

[BurbankKarl]

Reporting Hezbollah is trying to launch Iranian rockets....not sure how accurate this all is. The Arab guy is whispering, and I can hear the American giving his report in the background.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Where was that picture taken? Thanks.