[Royal Wulff]

Here's some more fun with Google Earth.

If you go to the IDF website http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa there's a video labeled "IDF Video: Hizbullah missile fire from within the village of Kafr Qana".

That video shows combat footage of a launcher in a small orchard near Qana.

I believe I have found precisely where that is on Google Earth. what's neat is you can orient the view to precisely reproduce the pilots view of the launcher.

Here are the parameters:

Location: 33°12'25.33"N 35°17'49.08"E
View Heading: -127 deg
Tilt: 64 deg

Get Google Earth at http://earth.google.com

You just need to cut and paste the "Location" string above into the Google Earth search box to find the location. The tilt and heading buttons are right there, but the basic idea is to arrange the view so you are looking roughly southwest.

You can pause the IDF video to get the angles just right.

The video shows the launchers racing back to homes in town. I'm trying to identify the homes shown.

[Royal Wulff]

I might add that a "tilt" of 64 deg corresponds to an eye altitude of 2452 ft. Google Earth shows the eye altitude as you move the tilt slider in the lower right hand corner.

[conservative in nyc]

Google Map link to the same location, for those of us who don't use Google Earth.

[Royal Wulff]

That new military guy on Fox news needs to read this post of mine and he'll see that Hezbollah is using large rocket launchers (not "three sticks") and firing from within 500 yards of the minaret in the middle of Qana.