I find the 'use' of Frankenstein as insulting as ever. It's stupid.
Do you actually think Israel takes chances? Not if they can help it. They've had the battlefield outlined a long time ago. Stop being afraid of your own shadow. Israel isn't afraid of the shadow it casts !
Israel cuts Lebanon's last major tie to Syria as militants fire more rockets
http://www.news1130.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w080483A
4, 2006 - 0:12 pm By: SAM F. GHATTAS
BEIRUT (AP) - Israel's pounding of Hezbollah positions across Lebanon expanded Friday with missiles targeting bridges in the Christian heartland north of Beirut for the first time. A top UN aid official said air strikes on the main north-south highway risked cutting off Lebanon's "umbilical cord" to the world.
Four civilians were killed and 10 wounded in the air raid, the Lebanese Red Cross said. A Lebanese soldier and four civilians were also killed in air raids near Beirut's airport and southern suburbs, security officials and witnesses said.
Four Israeli missiles also slammed into a warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables near the Lebanon-Syria border, killing at least 28, according to officials at the Syrian hospitals where the dead and wounded were taken.
The Lebanese and Kurdish farm labourers were in a field in a strip of no-man's land along Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, foreman Rabei al-Jabali said.
Israeli strike shuts key Lebanon-Syria border point
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/7/30/worldupdates/2006-07-30T040046Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-261620-2&sec=Worldupdates
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike closed Lebanon's main crossing point to Syria on Saturday for the first time since the start of the war between Israel and Hizbollah, security sources said.
Three air strikes hit the road between Lebanese and Syrian immigration offices at Masnaa area in the eastern Bekaa Valley, but on the Lebanese side of the border, they said. There were no casualties.
Traffic on the border had been interrupted by Israeli attacks nearby, but it was the first time it had been declared closed in the 18-day Israeli onslaught in Lebanon.
AND ISRAEL knows one does not 'take' a stronghold easily or take it without maintaining that position.
Two IDF soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah
IAF jets raid bridges near Tripoli; IDF and Hezbollah trade heavy fire in Ayta a-Shab
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/746648.html
By Jonathan Lis, Amiram Barkat, Yoav Stern and Agencies
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed this weekend in fighting in southern Lebanon. IDF ground forces continued their advance into Lebanon over the weekend and in some areas exceeded the borders of the security zone Israel pulled out from in May 2000. Brigadier General Shuki Shahrur said Friday that the number of Hezbollah fighters killed in the fighting since 12 July had exceeded 400, and eight had been taken prisoner in recent days. A reservist soldier was killed and four other troops were injured when an anti-tank missile hit a home in which they took up position in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta a-Shab. Corporal Kyril Kashdan, 26, of Haifa, is the first reservist killed in the IDF ground operation in Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH can never be a political entity. They are intent on destroying entire nations starting with Israel.
Tape shows Hezbollah 'confession'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5254742.stm
The Israeli army has released a video apparently showing a Hezbollah fighter admitting to taking part in a raid on Israel and undergoing training in Iran.
On the tape, the fighter describes his role in the raid in which two Israeli soldiers were seized on 12 July, triggering the current conflict.
The man identifies himself as Hussein Ali Suleiman, 22, and says he flew from Syria to Iran for training in 2003.
The videoed interrogation appears to have been heavily edited.
The Israeli army announced his capture on Sunday, but did not say when he had been seized, according to the Associated Press.
'Special flight'
In the video, released on Monday, he said he was tasked with cutting certain access routes during the cross-border raid in which Hezbollah captured two Israeli troops and another eight died in clashes.
Mr Suleiman said he had undergone several training sessions and courses since joining the militant group as a teenager.
During one of these in 2003, he said, he was driven from Beirut to Damascus in Hezbollah cars and then took a special flight to Iran without passing through passport control.
He then took part in military exercises in Iran along with 40 or 50 other Hezbollah members, he said.
Mr Suleiman also said he had attended an 18-month night school course for soldiers, which included classes in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
After Israel withdrew from south Lebanon in 2000, ending its 18-year occupation of the area, he said he attended a 45-day "fighter" course covering weapons training, sabotage and communications.
In the footage, Mr Suleiman appeared to have light bruises or wounds on his cheeks and lips, and the tape was edited with some of his answers cut off in mid-sentence, AP reported.
On Friday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) released footage of what it said were Hezbollah fighters blindfolded and captured during an operation in south Lebanon.
WHEN are terrorists going to be sent packing when it comes to finding illegal incomes in the USA?
Hezbollah Fundraising on U.S. Soil (Listen to the broadcast)
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2006/08/20060804_2.asp
To some, Hezbollah is the "Party of God." To others, "the A-team of terrorism," a disciplined army of militant Shiite Islamists, raising tens of millions of dollars right here in the US. Barbara Newman, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and former host of NPR's "All Things Considered," is co-author of "Lightening Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil." Here & Now speaks with Newman about Hezbollah's activities in the U.S. and Lebanon.
WHATEVER happened to Nic Robertson and Christiana Amanpour? I have been waiting for the 'real news team' to arrive. They have the insight. Anderson doesn't. He has sensationalism and nothing else. He hasn't got what the best journalists have. Experience and connections and the respect of the people that speak to them. Chris says it as it is and not the way CNN wants to spin it. That isn't the case with Andy and crew.
Arabs to Send Delegation Backing Lebanon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700373.html
By ZEINA KARAMThe Associated PressMonday, August 7, 2006; 10:42 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Arab foreign ministers decided Monday to send a delegation to the United Nations to represent Lebanon's interests at the Security Council, an aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said.
The three-man delegation will include the foreign ministers of Qatar, the only Arab member on the Security Council, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
THE ARABS need to watch 'whom' they state they are backing. Backing Lebanon is very different than backing Hezbollah. If Lebanon backs Hezbollah then it's all the same thing.
