Posted on 07/23/2006 10:22:28 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Hezbollah terrorists fire a missile from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
neither can I, not sure who we are going to convince to step in there. Check out this article, particularly the last couple of sentences, sounds like a slug fest at Beit Jbail -
Israel's Fallujah---any reports anyone?? 7/24/2006 5:48:38 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_the_battle_1;_ylt=AnL3221bLWEsDqQXT34X5gEUvioA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER - The heavy guns thundered before dawn Monday, sending deadly shells crashing down into the Lebanese border town and paving the way for the advancing Israeli tanks and troops.
By daybreak, bloody and bruised soldiers, shock etched deep in their faces, were streaming back over the border into Israel.
The incessant crackle of gunfire pierced the air as explosions over the hills surrounding Bint Jbail kicked up plumes of gray smoke. All the while, tanks rolled back into Israel, ferrying the wounded over the rocky, barren landscape.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and at least 20 were wounded Monday, the army said, as guerrillas in the town, a Hezbollah stronghold, issued a withering barrage of bullets, anti-tank missiles and mortar shells.
Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, chief of operations for the Israeli Defense Force, said between 100 and 200 Hezbollah fighters were fortified inside the town, while much of the civilian population had fled. Hezbollah, he said, suffered dozens of casualties.
As the tanks, doubling up as battlefield ambulances, crossed a breach in the electric border fence, they were met by medics waiting for the Israeli casualties.
One-by-one the wounded were carried out on stretchers. One young soldier had blood streaming down his leg, which was bound with a tourniquet. Another lay still on a stretcher, only his twitching legs indicating that he was alive.
Having brought back his wounded comrades, a tank driver sat on the turret clutching his head between his gloved hands and crying while two crew members tried to console him.
Ambulances rushed the wounded over roads dug up by tank tracks. They drove past fields left charred and barren by fires from hundreds of Hezbollah rockets and through the empty streets of ghost towns — their inhabitants hiding in bomb shelters.
Helicopters airlifted the seriously wounded out of the area.
Israel launched its operation in Lebanon after Hezbollah guerrillas killed three soldiers and captured two others in a cross-border raid on July 12. More than 350 people in Lebanon and more than 35 Israelis have been killed in the ensuing fighting.
Those wounded in the battle Monday were rushed to Haifa's Rambam hospital for treatment, some of them straight into surgery. Their worried friends and relatives sat on the plastic waiting room chairs, impatient for news. Only muted sobs and an occasional attempt at a joke to break the tension pierced the silence.
"You never think that your brother will be wounded in the army. It is the kind of thing that only happens to other families," said Daniel Gino, 19, whose 23-year-old brother was being operated on to remove a bullet from his shin. He declined to give his brother's name.
In the recovery room, another soldier, 21-year-old Yishai Green, lay in a bed with two large Israeli flags hanging next to him.
A group of French Jews on a solidarity visit tried to cheer him up with balloons, and another man went from room to room playing a guitar.
"It's a real mess and I am not allowed to talk about it," was all Green had to say about the battle for Bint Jbail, where much of the town's population of 30,000 is believed to have fled.
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Mute isn't good enough. You have to change channels...Fox gets numbers from satellite and cable. They need to know you're not watching.
What??? Another Okie State Cowboys fan? Woohoo!!
We are ALL OVER that orange thing.
What??? Another Okie State Cowboys fan? Woohoo!!
We are ALL OVER that orange thing.
I am married to a beautiful Filipina! Lucky we get along well -- would like to think I chose carefully. :-)
Man, i just heard the full interview with Bibi from earlier in the day. All i can say is WOW, this man needs to be the PM of Israel
Thanks for that; I'm disgusted with the Rats for trying to bar him.
Now, if we had a policy in place that we never, ever let anyone speak to Congress who didn't support Israel, maybe I'd feel differently.
But since we clearly don't have such a policy, let the Rats go pound sand. Preferably in a hostile Arab country. LOL
Just jumping in here. I just heard on Fox that Tony Snow said that the US is sending more Troops to Iraq because of the failed Iraq security measures in Baghdad.
Excuse me while I contemplate the fact that this might be some sort of sign to Iran that we are kicking it up a notch for their sakes. Just my first thought.
Is there thread up on this yet?
I could never understand why they voted him out
See, here is another advantage to HGTV...I just saw a preview for a new WOODY ALLEN movie! Now I know what NOT to watch at the theater!
Back during Katrina, Shep was the 'Shrimp on Bourbon Street' who walked outside a bar after Katrina passed over New Orleans and said, 'everything is fine !'. Apparently no one there told the Shrimp that the French Quarter was one of the highest spots in New Orleans.
Suzanne Wong (sp)...:)
When I can't take it I ALWAYS go to HGTV..it settles me right down.
Yes she is, but every time I think Shep may be disappearing, he's right back. So I'm not getting my hopes up.
I just switched to HGTV with you'all, it's less stressful.
I haven't seen one. However, as I understood it from Brit Hume's show, these are not additional troops being sent to Iraq, but rather troops stationed elsewhere in the country who are being reassigned to Baghdad to help with the security there.
Things that make you say...hhmmmm...:)
I did not know she was there.
they were sick of war and thought bringing in a leftie would keep them out of conflict. When are folks going to learn this is a dog eat dog world. Peace thru strength!!
actually the troops are going to be sent to baghdad from other areas of Iraq.
Wolfe Snitzer makes me ill. He was sure to offer his condolences and sympathies to the Lebanese minister he just had on, but i sure didn't hear the same for Bibi when he interviewed him
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