Israel drops 23 tons of explosives on Hezbollah bunker

CNN | 7-19-06 | CNN

[varyouga]

Just saw on CNN that 23 tons of explosives were dropped on a Hezbollah bunker. Top Hezbollah officials are believed to have been inside.

No story on the website yet.

[doug from upland]

click for some fun

[zarf]

why the F'k is Hizbullah TV still broadcasting?

[jrooney]

I do not think they will rush to announce their entire leadership was blown into thousand of pieces.

It is most likely the Israeli's had spotters on the ground and were confident of the leadership being there.

[mojito]

Update at JPost: "IAF ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE HIZBULLAH LEADERSHIP"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153291951954&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"IAF fighter jets dropped over 20 tons in bombs late Wednesday night on a Hizbullah bunker, possibly the hiding place of the group's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in the Burj al-Arjana refugee camp in southeast Beirut. It was still unclear who was in the bunker at the time and what their fate was, but IDF sources said the bunker was totally destroyed and that all that was left was a crater.

The IDF obtained intelligence information late Wednesday night that Hizbullah leaders possibly including Nasrallah had taken refuge inside the bunker. A wave of aircraft immediately took to the air and dropped 23 tons of explosives on the bunker.

IDF sources would not confirm that Nasrallah was in the bunker at the time, but said that high-ranking Hizbullah leaders were inside, and that it appeared that the attack was successful.

Since Israel went to war with Lebanon last Wednesday, fighter jets have repeatedly bombed another bunker in the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut, also said to be the main nerve center and headquarters of Hizbullah.

The IAF has so far carried over 3,000 sorties over Lebanon, and in the past day attacked 200 targets throughout the country, including Hizbullah headquarters, cars carrying terrorists, Katyusha launchers and weapons warehouses."

[billhilly]

"Here is hoping they got a couple of big fish!!!"

Country boys have long been accused of fishing with dynamite. I hear it works.

[COBOL2Java]

Nasrallah's nose now in a press conference, announcing that it "was just a flesh wound."

[jrooney]

It is broadcasting by remote from a trash dumpster somewhere. The commentators are dressed as children and women.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

too bad so sad. :o)

[colorado tanker]

LOL!

Just substitute Hezbollah for Macon and Isreal for Sundance. :-)

[silentknight]

The White House said today - Tony Snow - that this is not a war. It is considered hostilities between the two parties. BS alert :) on that one! Call it what it is!

[andy58-in-nh]

I can't even see that picture anymore without LMAO.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

ooohh fireworks! pretty. ;o)

[Pericles_Parnassus]

Should we be raising our Alert levels?

[Fatuncle]

A F-16 carrying max load without external tanks or jamming pods can tote 16,000 lbs. - 8 tons. These birds would need no external tanks if the range is short enough, and I suspect that dedicated jammers/SAM suppressors went along as separate aircraft.

So, four to ten birds, depending on what else they carried and were told to do.

[COBOL2Java]

Should we be raising our Alert levels?

We may have to go from Bert to Ernie...

[JRandomFreeper]

500 lbs at a time, my friend. 500 lbs at a time.

/johnny... all bombs guaranteed to hit the ground....

[river rat]

500 pounder (1/2 ton), SHOULD be 1/4 ton....

Sorry.

Semper Fi

[uncbob]

Hope this isn't like the first days of the War in Iraq when they thought they got Saddam with that air strike

[APRPEH]

note the last paragraph... "mosque under construction" YNET.com report

Hizbullah claims no members killed in mass IAF strike

According to Hizbullah officials, no senior organization leaders were killed in the massive IAF air strike on a southern Beirut target Wednesday night, which IDF officials said was aimed at Hizbullah’s top brass.

In a message broadcast by the organization on its al-Manar television station, Hizbullah said: “The enemy is trying to cover its military and security failures by lies and inventing accomplishments. The building that was hit was a mosque that was under construction." (Roee Nahmias and AP)

[xone]

12 F-16s GBU-37 #2000 JDAM 2 per F-16
3 B-2s
3- A-6s if there were any left

Not that many planes, not that much ordnance for a high value target.