Updates: On the War
The Bear on Jul 20 2006 at 5:05 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
SideBear: My mailbox is flooded with many articles about the War from many of you readers and for that I thank you. So I just thought I would just post many of them for all.
IAF attempts to assassinate Hizbullah leadership
IAF fighter jets dropped over 20 tons in bombs late Wednesday night on a Hizbullah bunker, possibly the hiding place of the group’s leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in the Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp in southeast Beirut. It was still unclear who was in the bunker at the time and what their fate was, but IDF sources said the bunker was totally destroyed and that all that was left was a crater.
Hizbullah has a headquarters compound in Bourj al-Barajneh that is off limits to the Lebanese police and army, so security officials could not confirm the strike.
Despite the airing of Hizbullah’s claims that the IAF had hit a mosque under construction, the IDF Spokesman’s office still insisted to The Jerusalem Post early Thursday morning that the IAF had hit a Hizbullah bunker.
Israeli forces in Lebanon running search and destroy missions
TEL AVIV — Israel has slipped infantry units into Lebanon and plans to eventually have 5,000 soldiers there.
Israeli infantry and engineering units have been sent into Lebanon for an assault on Hizbullah positions and strongholds near the Israeli border. The soldiers were said to be destroying Hizbullah forts and directing air strikes against suspected arsenals in southern Lebanon, Middle East Newsline reported.
“This is the beginning of a major operation,” a senior military source said.
Hizbullah missiles hampering Israeli air force operations
The Israel Air Force has been significantly hampered by Hizbullah rocket strikes on northern Israel.
Military sources said Hizbullah rockets have caused heavy damage to a major air force base at Meron, about 20 kilometers south of Lebanon. The base contains a regional air operations center that has directed the war in Lebanon, Middle East Newsline reported.
The Hizbullah attacks have also forced the air force to relocate Israeli attack helicopters, comprising the AH-64 Apache and the AH-1S Cobra. The helicopters have played a major role in the air war in southern Lebanon and the Beirut area.
“The main factor has been the helicopters,” a source said. “They have nowhere to land in northern Israel that’s safe from Hizbullah rockets.”
As a result, the air force has also transferred its helicopter maintenance and logistics center from northern Israel. Over the last few days, the sources said, attack and utility helicopters were ordered to fly to a base in the Negev for service.
Arming of Hezbollah Reveals U.S. and Israeli Blind Spots
But neither Jerusalem nor Washington had any idea that Hezbollah had such a missile in its arsenal, the officials said, adding that the Israeli ship had not even activated its missile defense system because intelligence assessments had not identified a threat from such a radar-guided cruise missile.
They said they had also been surprised by the advances that Hezbollah had made in improving what had been crude rockets — for example, attaching cluster bombs as warheads, or filling an explosive shell with ball bearings that have devastating effect.
Officials have since confirmed that the warhead on the Syrian rocket was filled with ball bearings — a method of destruction used frequently in suicide bombings but not in warhead technology.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said one Western intelligence official, speaking about the warhead.
But it was Friday’s successful launching of a C-802 cruise missile that most alarmed officials in Washington and Jerusalem.
Air-Dropped Notices Ask Nasrallah: “Where Are You Hiding?”
Israel Air Force planes Tuesday night dropped thousands of notices over Beirut mocking Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. “Where are you hiding?” asked the flyers.
Earlier in the day, the IAF again bombed Nasrallah’s Beirut home. He has been forced to live underground for more than a week, possibly in a differnt area if he succeeded in fleeing Beirut.
Rice Expected to Push Two Stage Ceasefire Plan
Reservists Blame Channel 2 for Helping Terrorists
A live Channel 2 television broadcast last week on pinpoint locations of Katyusha rocket hits aided Hizbullah terrorists, according to reserve soldiers manning an IDF bunker.
The soldiers, part of an artillery unit, said Hizbullah terrorists were more exact in their attacks on the bunker as the live broadcast continued. “Several minutes after the live report, we noticed Hizbullah did not miss their mark. Suddenly, all the Katyusha hit the bunker. We have no doubt they sat and watched the television in order to find us,” one reservist stated.
The soldiers called police and demanded they tell Channel 2 to cease the live telecast. “You are endangering us, Stop broadcasting. You are helping Hizbullah to fire on us,” they said. After a second appeal to the police, the television producers stopped the live report.
The soldiers are considering suing Channel 2, which has not commented on the incident.
Is channel 2 in Israel owned by the New York Times?
Lebanese Group: Kidnapped Soldiers at Iranian Embassy
Video of Israeli’s bombing a katyusha rokcket launcher
Hizballah sub-contracts Palestinian launch squads, uses Christian villages as human shields
Iran’s Hezbollah set for ‘WW3′
Tehran – Iran’s Hebollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and US interests worldwide.
“We have 2 000 volunteers who have registered since last year,” said Iranian Hezbollah’s spokesperson Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.
“They have been trained and they can become fully armed.
“We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America’s interests.
FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise
The FBI is trying to ferret out possible Hizbollah agents in the United States amid concerns that rising U.S.-Iranian tensions could trigger attacks on American soil, FBI officials said.
SideBear: Finally, here is a video and he gets the moron “Stuck on Stupid” award of the year.
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