Posted on 08/08/2006 5:34:29 AM PDT by SJackson
IDF captures 5 Hizbullah fighters overnight, including a cell that had fallen asleep. Two soldiers killed. Olmert meets with Katzav, says Lebanese proposal to take over south is "interesting."
In the Bint Jbeil area of southern Lebanon, Israeli paratroopers discovered a small group of sleeping Hizbullah terrorists, complete with heavy weaponry and other equipment. The Israelis woke them up and brought them to Israel.
In a separate incident, a unit of reservists captured a Hizbullah unit with rockets ready for firing. Five Hizbullah terrorists were captured in total, and between 7 and 15 were killed. Heavy fighting continues in the area, and only at 1:30 PM was it released for publication that two soldiers had been killed. One soldier was brought to an Israeli hospital with a serious head wound, and seven others were lightly wounded.
Close to 50 Katyushas have been fired at various Israeli cities in the north this morning, including Kiryat Shmonah and Nahariya. At least one woman in Kiryat Shmonah has been treated for shock.
More than 160 Katyushas were fired on Monday, wounding 17 people. 3,050 rockets have been fired at Israel since the beginning of the war four weeks ago; 75 people are still hospitalized as a result.
Four soldiers were killed on Monday in three separate battles with Hizbullah terrorists. One, 22-year-old Staff Sergeant Malko (Moshe) Ambao of Lod, was killed Monday morning in a fierce exchange of gunfire with Hizbullah terrorists. Two other soldiers - Maj. Yotam Lotan from Kibbutz Beit HaShitah and Sgt. Noam Meirson, 23, of Jerusalem - were killed in a later incident when a rocket hit their tank nearby. Still later, an anti-tank rocket hit an IDF force in the village of Debl, killing First Sgt. Philip Mosko, 21, of Maaleh Adumim and lightly wounding five soldiers.
Olmert Studies Interesting Proposal Prime Minister Ehud Olmert briefed President Moshe Katzav on the war this morning, and then met with reporters. He said that he and the government ministers are "studying" the proposal for the Lebanese Army to take immediate control of the south of the country, in place of Hizbullah. Calling it "interesting," the Prime Minister said the practicality of the idea would have to be looked into. It is not clear how it could be guaranteed that Hizbullah terrorists would not be integrated into the Lebanese forces. Hizbullah is a member of the Lebanese government coalition.
Speaking beforehand in a special broadcast to Jewish fundraisers in the United States, Olmert said, "We will win, but we will have to pay a terrible price." A special emergency appeal is underway in the U.S. for Israel's war effort.
"Our enemies wish to kill us," Olmert told them, "in the hope that they will help actualize the Iranian president's pledge to wipe Israel off the map."
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"...this is hard war. a house by house war. Room by room war. Unless we destroy the room. And then the question would be asked 'why were there people trapped in the room?'"
IDF Northern District Commander Major-General Udi Adam
IMO those captured should have been tied to their heavy weapons and the weapons destroyed.
How did they get that captured terrorist to sing like a song bird yesterday? I hope they got plenty of info from Him before letting the press know. Like eg the hide out of the two soldiers captured..
Those evil Israelis! How dare they not chop their heads off and broadcast it on Al Jazeera! Now Hezbollah has no choice but to take prisoners without chopping off their heads too!
A sleeper cell caught asleep.. LoL...
A Psalm could be written to that...
Cartoons printed.. that would dance in the dreams of all the sleeper cells..
Message: Don't go to sleep.. You may wake up HOG tied like the cowardly swine you are..
Guard against sleep, the IDF could be just outside the door waiting..
Don't worry Israel!!! GOD is with you and fight with you!!! Long live GOD with Jacob!!!!
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This war is about Islam trying to take over the world, and this war is really not about just Lebanon, Israel, and Hezbollah. Some tell us that this war is about prisoners, about Sheba Farms, Syria, Iran, and yes, it has something to do with it, but it is really about Islam, shall it take over the world?
Should I have the right to allow my home to be used by thugs to shoot at the other neighbors? At first the Lebanese Prime Minister denied knowing that Hezbollah had been digging into Southern Lebanon for the last six years, then he admits it and gives them high praise. Lebanon has given up governing it's land and it's people, and they have turned it over to outlaws. Since the Prime Minister of Lebanon knows what has been going on for years, Lebanon is the culprit as well, and should be judged as such.
Israel is doing well to draw a hard line. There is no such thing as reasoning with hardline Islamics. Deadly force is the only thing that can be understood by them.
Pipe dream
Baruch HaShem
Perhaps the greatest understatement in human history.
Thank you for that speech from Patton. Wish we had more men like him today!
Hezzie: Achmed, stop nudging me, I was having a wonderful dream about the 72 virgins allah [may his name be spat upon] will give me when I fire rockets upon the evil Zionists.
IDF Soldier: My name ain't Achmend and believe me, I ain't no virgin!
How many Hezbollah casualties so far? KIA? WIA, MIA? POW? To me this is a key question, because to get rid of Hezbollah means to kill them, from Nasrallah on down. Neither have I any idea of how many Hezbollah there are. 2,000? 20,000? It seems that the IDF has come up against, not a rag-tag assortment of Muslim suicide-clymers, but a well trained, disciplined, force, operating from hardened postions ... able to take two weeks of Hell on Earth and pop up scant hundreds of yards from the border to launch Katyushas, of which they have an unending supply.
Then, as far north as the Litani River has to become a DMZ under UN control ... a UN that has the wherewithal to disarm terrorist groups. We cannot wind up with another Kosovo, where all we have done is create a safe haven for the KLA and give it a base for other activities, while they terrorize all the other inhabitants.
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