Interesting tidbit in this JPost article about Israel bombing the Syrian/Lebanese border crossings:
Hizbullah leaders and operatives were also leaving Beirut on Saturday following a massive IAF strike on an 11-story building in south Beirut that served as the organization’s command center, initial intelligence indicated. Channel 2 reported that the move appeared to be made under heavy security.
A senior IDF officer reported that as a result of a similar strike on the same building on Friday, a large building collapsed, blocking the entrance to a command bunker where Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was believed to be located, Army Radio reported.
Does this mean Nasrallah is trapped in a hole like the rat that he is?
And how stupid are these people? The IAF dropped leaflets telling them their homes and offices would be bombed, and they stayed? Now that’s arrogance.
It wasn’t a UAV that hit the Israeli warship. It was an Iranian-made (and probably fired) missile.
An IDF investigation into the attack showed that Hizbullah had fired an Iranian-made missile at the vessel from the shores of Lebanon, said Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan.
A senior IDF intelligence official says that Iran has approximately 100 soldiers in Lebanon and that they helped Hizbullah hit an Israel Navy ship with an anti-ship missile.
It was first thought that an explosives-laden UAV caused the blast.
“We can confirm that it was hit by an Iranian-made missile launched by Hizbullah. We see this as very profound fingerprint of Iranian involvement in Hizbullah,” Nehushtan said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Just found confirmation that the missile was probably fired by Iranians.
A senior IDF intelligence official says that Iran has approximately 100 soldiers in Lebanon and that they helped Hizbullah hit an Israel Navy ship with an anti-ship missile.
Update: Counterterroism blog says it was a UAV-guided missile, and that Iran’s fingerprints were all over it.
Apparently, Iran has taken the place of the Soviet Union in the Arab nations. Soviet pilots actually flew against Israeli soldiers in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
This may be one of the reasons why I tell Vladimir Putin the STFU when it comes to Israel. His nation has already proven how much it loathes and works against the Jewish state. Then there was that Soviet policy of refusing to let Jews worship, and refusing to let them emigrate. As far as I’m concerned, Putin is still the KGB apparatchik that he was when Russia was the USSR. Two hundred protesters were arrested at the G8 talks—and so were two German journalists. Yeah, I’m going to listen to Vladimir Putin lecture Israel on disproportionate force. Tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. I’ll pencil him in right after “gargling with razor blades.”
Rockets are now falling on Tiberias. There’s a map on the link. Go see how serious the Hezbullah “barrages” have been.
The first strike on Tiberias represented a further extension of Hizbullah’s rockets’ range, since Haifa was struck on Thursday. Tiberias is located on the western shore of the Kinneret, some 35 kilometers south of the Lebanese border, which was previously assessed to be outside the area that would be hit by Katyushas.
Hezbullah must be destroyed. This war will not end until they are.