[varyouga]

I hope the clowns got bombed slow so they regretted taking those soldiers as the bunker was shaking.

[LayoutGuru2]

All at once, or over the last several days?
Hmmm..., that is ninety-two 500-ponders...
Woot! Woot!

[saganite]

"we dropped 23 tons and what did we hit?

Hezbollah thugs in their deep dark pit"


Apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford.

[Subsonic22]

That's going to leave a mark.

[nopardons]

bttt

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Rock the Casbah!

[hershey]

CNN says Hezbollah hasn't changed their broadcasting, which they might if the big boys had been blown sky high. So CNN thinks Israel just blew up innocent civilians. And besides, Hezbollah is a humanitarian organization. So there.

[bray]

It's a nice start.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Shalom Israel

[expatpat]

Very good news. I suspect their intelligence was so good that the got their quarry.

[The Electrician]

Hezbollah bunker = Roach Motel

[CatoRenasci]

It's a start, but 23 tons, coming as a bunch of bombs, isn't all that much. If you told me 23,000 tons, or even 230 tons, then I'd say you had a pretty good chance of a kill.

The guys who design these bunkers know what they're doing - some of Saddams were designed to take a direct hit from a nuke, say 250 kt or so - and I'm sure the same engineers doing the Iranian and/or Syrian underground complexes designed and built these. Now, if the German engineers gave the Israelis the plans, maybe they knew where to drop the bombs.... But seriously, 23 2,000 lb bombs only seems like a lot to a layman. Really hard targets take much more pounding.

[doug from upland]

click for some fun

[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."

[mrs tiggywinkle]

too bad so sad. :o)

[Pericles_Parnassus]

Should we be raising our Alert levels?

[uncbob]

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

[jw777]

why such a small amount?

[rockthecasbah]

Only 23 tons? Israel needs to get serious...

[NonValueAdded]

Surviving jihadists replied, "what?"

[LachlanMinnesota]

I hope this response was indeed proportional, in that they took out 23 tons of bad guys.