Posted on 07/19/2006 9:51:03 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
OK, baby not Lebanese - but keep an eye out for when they decide to take it to be baptized back in the homeland. That'll the be the time for the next uprising.
They will be shocked, shocked, I tell ya, when they hear bombs dropping.
Or maybe they won't. (Be shocked, or hear bombs dropping because the hezzies will be long gone.)
Well, depends on what state it is - therein might lie the answer, lol. I was just being nice, anyway.
CNNi live on USS Nashville....Marines already have 100s on board....
From YNet:
Peres questions Lebanon's casualty toll
Vice Premier Shimon Peres on Wednesday questioned the reported casualty count in Lebanon after days of pounding by Israeli warplanes. Lebanese government and police sources and local residents have reported at least 299 people killed in Lebanon, in the conflict triggered in retaliation for Hizbullah's July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. (Reuters)
(07.20.06, 07:37)
Since it's Peacenik Peres, he probably thinks the casualty count is underestimated.
The baby is Lebanese by blood if his father is Lebanese. But the kid need not be born in Lebanon for that to be true.
There's a remote chance the family was taking the kid to Lebanon to be baptized. We don't have all the facts.
The Lebanese also said only 1 Hezzbollah member has died so far...
yeah right!
CNN is on the ship? Why?
Why wasn't he manning those Embassy phones? Huh, why?
Did he have *something* better to do? Was he somewhere in private giving shoulder rubs again? *wink, wink* *snicker* *nudge* Or does he have Rove do *that,* too?
Barbara Starr is embeded I believe...she reported yesterday from the ship in Cypress.
She is not disclosing the location of the ship....it is offshore
Have they found rebel_yell2 yet? Hope he's there (or was on a nicer boat this morning).
Isn't it enlightening how differently the fighters on the two sides of this conflict see God in the fight? For these men the war is a necessary evil and when it's over they will return to productive lives. For the other other side God is the reason for the war.
PMO Allocates NIS 1 Million for Aid In North, US Fund to Match It
08:45 Jul 20, '06 / 24 Tammuz 5766
(IsraelNN.com) The Prime Minister’s Office announced Wednesday it will allocate NIS 1 million for immediate aid to the bombarded residents in northern communities.
A nonprofit organization in the U.S. said it will match the sum with money of its own. The “Friendship Fund” raises money for Israel from Christian supporters.
The head of Hebrew University’s Center for Clinical Legal Education for Human Rights and Social Responsibility noted that Israel has relied on Christian, as well as Jewish philanthropists in the current situation which has forced the government to allocate funds for defense that would otherwise go to basic support, such as food.
Either way, it's interesting that he is challenging the count. Thanks for the clip.
Daily Star newspaper - Lebanon
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/home3.asp
BEIRUT: Over 20 people have been arrested by the Lebanese security forces for spying for Israel and pinpointing targets for its warplanes in the southern suburbs, local and international outlets said Wednesday. Reports emerged early Wednesday, picked up from an article by a German news agency quoting an anonymous Lebanese security source as saying that a 26-member network was caught giving signals and information to Israel.
According to Al-Arabiyya television, the spies had been signaling to the Israelis and informing them where to target, adding that several of the suspects had confessed.
But acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat denied any knowledge of the reports, telling The Daily Star he had "not heard of the arrest of these people by the Lebanese security forces."
A Hizbullah spokesperson said the group hadn't heard of the news yet, despite the fact that the media reports said the spies were caught in Beirut's southern suburbs, a key stronghold for Hizbullah.
Israeli warplanes and
warships have been relentlessly bombarding the southern suburbs for the past week.
Earlier last month the Lebanese Army's intelligence agency uncovered an Israeli spy cell in Lebanon which had managed to carry out several assassinations across the country.
Mahmoud Rafeh, the reported leader of the Mossad-linked terrorist network, confessed to carrying out assassinations and spying for Israel.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb
Judicial sources told The Daily Star Rafeh admitted receiving a list of names of Lebanese and Palestinian political figures to be assassinated on orders from Israel.
During interrogation, Rafeh confessed to the killing of Islamic Jihad member Mahmoud Majzoub and his brother Nidal mid May. He also claimed the killing of Hizbullah officials Ali Hassan Deeb and Ali Saleh on August 16, 1999 and August 2, 2003, respectively, and that of Jihad Jibril, the son of the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command leader Ahmad Jibril in May 20, 2002.
However, he denied any involvement in a string of assassinations in Beirut during 2005 and having any knowledge of who was behind the attacks.
Before the war began, Military Investigating Magistrate Adnan Bolbol had been expected to begin questioning witnesses in the Mossad case this month, the sources said.
Another terrorist cell was caught earlier this year in Lebanon, which was charged with having links to the fundamentalist group Al-Qaeda.
The group was also charged with planning the assassination of Hizbullah's secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
So far, judicial and security investigations are ongoing to reveal the truth behind the cell and links to the assassination plan.
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