7/25 Middle East Live Thread

Middle East Live Thread ^ | 7/25/06 | me

[BurbankKarl]

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice salutes a US Marine as she walks towards a helicopter upon her departure from Beirut after meeting with Lebanese officials.

[SE Mom]

HOOAH!

BTW- Since Rudi left CNN she has been great! She's doing some fine investigative reporting for Gibby...did she replace Heather (I think that was her name)?

[jeffers]

I believe Blair got briefed on this a couple months ago, prompting a thread here at FR.

[Krodg]

I want mail too :(

[Fali_G]

I can find no trace of any Abu Jaffar as some Hezbollah leader.
anyone know something?

[AliVeritas]

They've been there... this is today:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza25jul25,1,7261019.story?coll=la-headlines-world

[tcrlaf]

Little danger in that...

The bad guys aren't stupid, either, and probably better informed than a guy speculating from a cornfield in Indiana...

If I can figure it out, you can BET that a Syrian Intelligence officer has, too...

[AliVeritas]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A70FA4A1-B8D0-47A8-8BFD-B14ECB555691.htm

[jeffers]

If you choose to discuss future or ongoing operations involving a US ally here at FR, I can't stop you, but as I said, I don't think it's a good idea, for a lot of reasons.

[cyberaxe]

UNIFIL's are only Fijians.

.....hey, i like the Fijians.....

.....bula.....

Wonder how the Fijians will respond?

.....well, that brings up a funny memory from fiji.....

.....was there about 20 years ago.....

.....visited a garden of ole ironsides.....

.....passed a man in military pants, shirt and helmet, but no shoes or weapons (he was barefoot!).....

.....we were on a scooter on a dirt road and he was jogging.....

.....this was in the middle of nowhere btw.....

.....when we passed him, he smiled and said bula.....

.....when we mentioned this to a local they explained.....

.....that there was currently a civil war going on.....

.....shocked, i committed that i hadn't heard about this, or i wouldn't have booked a vacation there.....

.....the local told me not to worry, she didn't think either side was armed and there had only been a couple of fist fights so far!.....

.....this is my honest recollection.....

.....some items might be clouded by the fact that a Coke cost $5 down there and Fiji Beer was $1.....

[jhp]

I tried to take a Kleenex from my shizu once..I will never try that again.

the shizu analogy i think is appropriate given the state of Syria's military, but if that shizu gets a hold of you . . . ;)

[Fali_G]

the number two man in hezbollah is
Imad Fayez Mughniyah.
I doubt he was the one.
He is huge.
The US want this man almost as badly as Bin Laden

[BurbankKarl]

Geez, wonder how the UN got hit....hmmm.

[Mariner]

OK, to go along with your allusions to a nuke being in play...

Any missile so armed could be traced to it's origin and THAT country would soon cease to exist. Also, it would not be possible to get a ship or truck into Israeli territory so armed.

The only possible way for the Jihadis to use a nuke is to lure either US or Israeli forces to place where it's been pre-positioned...and to get a bunch of those forces there.

Could Hizbollah have a nuke in the Bekaa, or on the road to same...just waiting for the IDF to move an armored division that way?

[mware]

Abu Jaffar. I have done a search but with just those two names it could me any number of people.

[jeffers]

When you lie down with dogs...

[Laverne]

Heather Naurt (or something like that)left FNC quite some time ago, and went to ABC, where she has been burried from sight. Too bad, she had a lot of potential with FOX, but jumped to a bigger alphabet, only to disappear.

[BurbankKarl]

I totally buy into the argument that they are luring IDF into a kill zone. They could launch missiles with WMD warheads into the old areas they occupied.