Lebanese Army Opens Fire on IDF Helicopters
22:47 Jul 30, '06 / 5 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Lebanese army soldiers opened fire on IDF helicopters attempting to land in the Bekaa Valley Sunday night and prevented them from landing, according to Lebanese sources quoted by Reuters News Agency.
The helicopters flew away without damage after apparently trying to land Israeli soldiers near a town in the area. It was the first reported firing by the Lebanese army on the IDF since the Hizbullah terrorist war began July 12.
Israel has said it will not attack the Lebanese army on condition that it does not aid Hizbullah terrorists.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=108773
(see what happens when I go outside to work on the sprinklers?)
And then we have:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, visiting Tehran for talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, compared Israel's attacks on Lebanon to the Holocaust.
In their talks, the two anti-U.S. leaders pledged mutual support, Iranian state television reported.
"Israel is perpetrating the same acts against the Lebanese that Hitler perpetrated against the Jews - it is killing children and hundreds of innocent civilians," Chavez said in an interview with the Arabic satellite channel, Al Jazeera, on Saturday.
Chavez' two-day visit came as Iran faces renewed international criticism for its nuclear program and as a backer of Hezbollah, engaged in fighting with Israel since they captured two Israeli soldiers July 12.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Friday reached a deal on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
Following talks, Chavez pledged that his country would "stay by Iran at any time and under any condition," state television reported.
Ahmedinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit.
"I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chavez," Ahmedinejad was quoted as saying by state-run television. "We think Iran and Venezuela should share all experiences of each other, stay by each other and they have to be supporters of each other."
Knitting A
Conundrum wrote:
Lebanese Army Opens Fire on IDF Helicopters
22:47 Jul 30, '06 / 5 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Lebanese army soldiers opened fire on IDF helicopters attempting to land in the Bekaa
Valley Sunday night and prevented them from landing, according to Lebanese sources quoted by Reuters
News Agency.
The helicopters flew away without damage after apparently trying to land Israeli soldiers near a town in
the area. It was the first reported firing by the Lebanese army on the IDF since the Hizbullah terrorist war
began July 12.
Israel has said it will not attack the Lebanese army on condition that it does not aid Hizbullah terrorists.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=108773
(see what happens when I go outside to work on the sprinklers?)
Every report cites "Lebanese sources". That's not three unconnected sources, that is one source, biased.
There is very little common sense for Israel to be running spot SOF raids right now, with one possible exception, against a WMD facility.
Until other sources back this up, I have a big question mark attached to it.