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  • Israel Captures Top Hezbollah Operative

    08/06/2006 9:08:16 AM PDT · by do the dhue · 87 replies · 2,685+ views
    newsmax ^ | Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006 | Kenneth R. Timmerman
    JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Israeli government announced today that it captured a key Hezbollah operative during commando raids deep into Lebanon, and that it was currently holding twenty Hezbollah fighters as prisoners-of-war. Over the past week, Israel has conducted two deep-penetration operations behind enemy lines, to attack Hezbollah positions in Tyre and Baalbek where they believed civilians might also be present. Stung by international criticism that it has bombed civilians by accident in Lebanon, "we have preferred to risk the lives of our own soldiers than to kill innocents," military sources told NewsMax. The Israeli cabinet met this morning in...