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7/24 Middle East Live Thread
Middle East Live Thread ^ | 7/24/06 | me

Posted on 07/23/2006 10:22:28 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

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To: Fitzcarraldo
http://www.intiqad.com/bar/newsdetails.php?id=6808

Run it through your favorite translator or Google

441 posted on 07/24/2006 9:10:43 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: ScaniaBoy
And this article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671099/posts - talking about Hizbullah

The unit has been able to recruit reserves, but MI has noticed that it has run into difficulty convincing members of the terror group who reside in northern Lebanon to travel south to participate in the fighting.

All the terrorists up north have heard how it's going in the south and now they suddenly have "car trouble." LOL.

442 posted on 07/24/2006 9:10:56 AM PDT by rake ("more rubble, less trouble" VD Hanson)
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To: FarRightFanatic
If the mosque is used for a lauching pad for terrorists, the mosque is leveled.

That is what happens.

This Fallujah mosque was bombed twice by the US military. The Sheik of the mosque is hardly cowed by the attacks. He says he will continue to support the mujahadin fighters.. (Photo: Eunji Kang)

443 posted on 07/24/2006 9:11:31 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: FarRightFanatic

I have my personal borough list and map... doesn't everyone?


444 posted on 07/24/2006 9:11:40 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: Straight Vermonter

You gotta be from New England....prolly Boston area

LOL, did you notice the screen name?


Oh Jeez.....I didnt until you mentioned it....the "wicked" gave it away......Didnt need the screen name.... :-)

Funny stuff......have a great day up there...

from near Philly


445 posted on 07/24/2006 9:12:13 AM PDT by halfright (9/11 3,000 Americans MURDERED...close the borders! N O W !!! Semper Fi !!)
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To: harwood

We've been found out. s/


446 posted on 07/24/2006 9:12:19 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: sageb1

And I seek CAIR's financial reports of their terrorist financial backing.


447 posted on 07/24/2006 9:13:00 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: AliVeritas

LOL...I for sure will contribute to any Bailathon that is started..

YOU just keep doing what you are doing...and we will have your back.


448 posted on 07/24/2006 9:13:12 AM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((((( ISRAEL)))))))))))))
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To: Straight Vermonter

"If the mosque is used for a lauching pad for terrorists, the mosque is leveled.

That is what happens."

Love it!


449 posted on 07/24/2006 9:14:24 AM PDT by FarRightFanatic
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To: easonc52

Oh really, yet he wants a cease-fire before implementation.
Alrighty. Is he afraid more UN video will show up? Or maybe some pocket lining for him and his allies?


450 posted on 07/24/2006 9:15:01 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: dogcaller
[source: al-jezeera. For analysis and discussion.]

"...It will take the summer to beat them..."

http://www.ghaliboun.net/emainnews.php

Israeli troops praise Hezbollah tactics

Israeli soldiers returning from the front in Lebanon say that Hezbollah has given them more of a fight than they expected.

They said they were battling an intelligent, well-prepared and ruthless guerrilla army whose fighters did not seem to fear death.

"It is hard to beat them," one soldier said. "They are not afraid of anything."

The soldiers described exchanges of gunfire in between houses and on village streets with Hezbollah fighters sometimes popping out of bushes to fire Kalashnikovs, rocket propelled grenades (RPG) and anti-tank missiles. The troops comments underscored the enormous challenges faced by "Israel" as it seeks to neutralize Hezbollah, which captured two Israeli soldiers in a border raid on July 12, prompting massive air and ground reprisals.

Grief for "Israel"

Despite "Israeli" enormous firepower that has already killed at least 380 Lebanese, some military analysts say the war is not going particularly well for "Israel". The Jewish state, they say, has been unable to significantly push back the guerrillas or stop hundreds of their rockets from slamming into northern "Israel" and causing casualties.

"They are not normal soldiers, you know. They are guerrillas. They are very smart" Michael Sidorenko, an Israeli soldier fighting in south Lebanon.

For the past few days, "Israel" has been fighting for control of the tiny southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, located on a hilltop less than 500 metres across the border.

The army said it had taken the village, but gunfire and the blasts of artillery shells could still be heard on Sunday as tanks and helicopters pounded positions inside. "Very smart" Officers at the scene confirmed there was still fighting to do. "They are not fighting like we thought they would," one soldier said. "They are fighting harder. They are good on their own ground."

One soldier said the guerrillas wore olive green army uniforms "to confuse us" because Israelis wear the same. Others said Hezbollah hid underground in reinforced bunkers until they thought it safe to come out and attack. The Israeli troops prefer to stay away from those bunkers, the soldiers said, instead calling in coordinates so forces massed behind the border can hit them with guided missiles.

"It will take the summer to beat them," said Michael Sidorenko, 21, resting in the shade of a road sign with other combat troops. On the hills behind him, loud gunfire and the constant thud of explosions could be heard. "They are not normal soldiers, you know," Sidorenko said. "They are guerrillas. They are very smart." Of the 19 soldiers killed so far since fighting began, five have died trying to gain control of Maroun al-Ras. To avoid more deaths among its troops, "Israel" has decided to limit its ground incursions to pinpoint operations near the border.

Tactical shortcomings

But military analysts say this tactic may well be insufficient to achieve "Israeli" goal of pushing Hezbollah back and destroying its ability to attack "Israel".

Others wondered why Hezbollah had not yet attacked the nearly two-dozen army vehicles and hundreds of troops camped out in easy striking range below the hill on which Maroun al-Ras sits.

Most believed the guerrillas would rather keep aiming their rockets at major Israeli population centres such as Haifa.

The soldiers said Hezbollah had refrained from attacking them as they approached Maroun al-Ras in tanks and armoured personnel carriers, preferring instead to let troops reach the village and attack them there. The fighting, they said, showed the guerrillas had used the six years since "Israel" withdrew from Lebanon to build bunkers, stockpile weapons and study tactics. "They have good knowledge about where we are, what we are doing, what kinds of weapons we have," Sidorenko said. "But it is better to fight them now than later, when they would be even stronger."

Source:aljazeera.net, 24-7-2006. Date: 24/07/2006 Time 17:34

451 posted on 07/24/2006 9:16:09 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Straight Vermonter

Hey, they missed a spot.


452 posted on 07/24/2006 9:16:20 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: Bahbah

All of the new ones have been told to wear nice jackets and smile continuously, no matter what rotten thing you are saying.

^^^^^

That is Hollywood packaging. You will never see anyone who is near cameras for a living saying a word with an "O" mouth. It is always "E"
Nancy Pelosi is a prime example.


453 posted on 07/24/2006 9:16:21 AM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: AliVeritas

Speaking of boroughs...

I want to know why Hillary and Schumer and other from New York haven't been totally raked over the coals on these news/talk shows about WHY they haven't gotten the electricity up in the borough that hasn't had it for weeks!!

Dang...that is worse than Katrina...it has to be miserable in New York with NO air conditioning..yikes.


454 posted on 07/24/2006 9:17:10 AM PDT by Txsleuth ((((((((((( ISRAEL)))))))))))))
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To: Txsleuth

Works for me... my in-laws are in Queens.

Kidding.

That's life in the caliphate of Hill and Chuck. They have a million ideas of what others should do while they care and do nothing in their state... except tax you to death. And these idiots vote for them.


455 posted on 07/24/2006 9:19:16 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("One for all , all for kicking *ss and taking names" ...Scratch taking names. Vlad fatwa)
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To: Txsleuth
I want to know why Hillary and Schumer and other from New York haven't been totally raked over the coals on these news/talk shows about WHY they haven't gotten the electricity up in the borough that hasn't had it for weeks!!

That has to be the most ignored story of the year (next to the captured Iraqi documents of course).

456 posted on 07/24/2006 9:19:30 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rake
All the terrorists up north have heard how it's going in the south and now they suddenly have "car trouble." LOL.

THAT is funny!

457 posted on 07/24/2006 9:19:39 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: FarRightFanatic

"a mosque in sidon was being run by hezbollah, it was hit by air strikes last night"

"Maybe we need to take a page from the Israeli warfare book and not be afraid to hit a mosque ourselves if it is being used by terrorists in Iraq. The Israelis seem to care significantly less than we do about world opinion. I say--GO ISRAEL!"

I agree! If a mosque is used for war supplies storage as all the terrorists do, they should be considered a target!


459 posted on 07/24/2006 9:20:51 AM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: tsmith130

ynet
Updates
Palestinians: Dozens of families seen fleeing northern Gaza
(18:52 , 07.24.06)
Al-Jazeera: Israeli air force strikes targets in Tyre
(18:36 , 07.24.06)
Gaza: IDF strikes Islamic Jihad weapons cache
(18:32 , 07.24.06)
UN calls for USD 150 million in emergency aid for Lebanon
(18:10 , 07.24.06)


460 posted on 07/24/2006 9:20:58 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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