Posted on 08/01/2006 9:58:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
IDF: 400 Hezbollah down, 1200 to go
Israel sends up to 10,000 troops into southern Lebanon
Israeli Commandos Raid Hezbollah Hideout in Baalbek Hospital
fala Portuguese?
I have a wireless laptop..and watched it...it kind of paused about every 10 or 15 minutes..but not enough to be distracting...but, I did have a FR window open...and let it download for a while...
My guess is he's real. Wow.
Still...can't believe we don't have Jack Bauer or G. Gordon Liddy types that are active out there taking care of business with extreme prejudice.
Worth repeating!
Nite all....
g'nite!
The Saudis are trying to convince Syria that it's better to have them (SA) on their side than Iran. Actually, that may just draw more water with Syria.
I figured they knew what they were doing.
I have on CNN...and a few minutes ago..Anderson was doing a segment about the bombing..and the fires it causes.
About 2 feet behind him was a brush fire...he kept talking and the fire got bigger and closer to him..but he just stood there...all of a sudden it got big FAST like a gust of wind hit it...
Anderson scoots away brushing his sleeve like it was hot...LOL it was hilarious, what a dork. I guess the cameraman was just gonna let the fire get him..if he hadn't noticed it.
Oh how I wish for that too. The CIA only had two ops that could even speak Farsi in 2000. Big hole to fill, but hopefully they're working on it. Meanwhile, the MSM spends their time trying to reveal our so called "secret" detention centers. Idiots.
Me too. I'm off to beddie-bye. Good night one and all. God bless the U.S. and Israel, and Godspeed to our warriors fighting to keep us safe.
(And the Brits, Aussies, and others fighting alongside us in Iraq and Afghanistan, too). God bless and keep them.
g'nite girl!
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By Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune
Published: August 2, 2006
BERLIN Germany is prepared to offer Syria a package of economic incentives as part of Berlin's efforts to woo the country away from Iran and seek a broader diplomatic solution to the Middle East crisis, diplomats said Wednesday.
With much of the diplomatic efforts so far focusing on how to stop the fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, diplomats said that Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Stein- meier, believed it was crucial to involve Syria, one of the main countries in the region.
The United States refuses to talk with Syria and Iran, which it holds responsible for arming and supporting Hezbollah. Washington has repeatedly accused Syria of supporting the insurgency in Iraq, protecting terrorists and pursuing weapons of mass destruction. Syria also has been on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1979 and Washington imposed sanctions in the mid-1980s.
Steinmeier, who has spent the past few days talking to his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Muallim, also sent Horst Freitag, the Foreign Ministry's Middle East regional director, to Syria to explore the chances of distancing it from Iran. "Syria must decide for itself if the country wants to follow Iran down its path to self-destruction," Steinmeier told the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. "I believe that that can't be in Syria's best interest and I hope that enough of its leaders are able to recognize this."
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Steinmeier have spent a week talking to President George W. Bush, President Jacques Chirac of France, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert.
Steinmeier is also trying to engage President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan in seeking a diplomatic and political solution to the Lebanon crisis.
But German officials said that Berlin could not achieve this goal alone and that it needed the support of the European Union to offer Syria an economic and political package. France supports the idea but wants the carrot extended to Iran as well. The French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, who this week said Iran played a very big role in the region, met his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, in Beirut.
Germany's aim is to widen the scope of the "quartet" - the EU, the United States, Russia and the United Nations - to unite and strengthen the international front in the region where the United States has lost much credibility among most Arab countries because of its unequivocal support for Israel.
The quartet was established in 2002 to coordinate diplomatic policy in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and to render economic assistance. But it has been unable to prevent a deterioration of the economic and security situation in the Gaza Strip or find some way for the new Palestinian leadership under Hamas to recognize Israel.
Nevertheless, German diplomats say they believe the quartet could be useful in trying to mediate in the fighting between Israel and Lebanon, and even encourage countries in the region to play a greater diplomatic role. The spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, Martin Jäger, said Germany's eventual aim was a new Middle East peace conference. In the short term, it wants the fighting to stop.
At an emergency meeting Tuesday of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Germany did not support calls by Finland, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, for an immediate cease-fire. Steinemeier said that call would have been meaningless because the cease- fire could not have been implemented, let alone sustained.
Instead, Steinmeier supported Britain, Poland and the Netherlands in a call for a cessation of hostilities.
German diplomats said Steinmeier's diplomatic aim was to involve the main countries in the region.
"We have to think out of the box," said a government official, adding, "If there is to be no return to the status quo ante, then we have to talk to the other countries and offer them some perspective." For Syria, that perspective would have to include two elements.
First, the country is desperate for duty-free access to the EU market for its manufactured goods, but the negotiations have been delayed by several EU member states until Syria renounces terrorism and stops trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The EU is Syria's biggest trading partner, accounting for more than 40 percent of its trade in 2003 and 2004.
Secondly, Syria wants to regain control of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. But one German diplomat said it was too early to speak about that.
"Clearly, if there is to be a comprehensive peace deal for the region, the Golan Heights would be part of it," said the diplomat. "But that's way down the road."
Who is that?
You gals are gonna hurt yourselves if ya keep doing that!
I know. We're about to hit our limit on concussions as it is.
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