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TameasDust	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 9:21 PM > More Pictures Israeli airstrikes and shelling have already killed at least 55 Lebanese civilians since the two soldiers were captured on Wednesday, while a steady barrage of Hizbollah rocket fire into northern Israel has killed two Israeli civilians and wounded 90. Israeli aircraft struck the main highway linking Beirut with the Syrian capital, Damascus, earlier today, a Lebanese security source said. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties. Two Hizbollah missiles hit the Israeli port of Haifa, the country's third largest city, in a move Israel described as a "major escalation" since Haifa, home to around 250,000 people, lies more than 30 km from the Lebanese border. No one was injured in the Haifa attacks. Hizbollah denied firing on Haifa. In total, Israel said Hizbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, fired more than 100 rockets at towns and villages in the north on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuries. The military offensive coincided with an major Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip to retrieve a captured soldier and halt Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli troops fired a tank shell at a vehicle in Gaza today, killing a Palestinian and wounding another, Palestinian medics said. The threat of a larger-scale Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon to prevent the rocket fire gained currency after the Haifa strikes although the military remained tight-lipped. "All options are available," army spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal said when asked about the possibility of an offensive. "Strategically speaking, if the third largest city in Israel is under attack, it's a big thing and a response can be expected." In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Israel not to attack Syria, saying such action would be considered an assault on the whole Islamic world that would bring a "fierce response", state television reported. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, speaking in Germany, urged Israel to exercise restraint but also demanded that Syria put pressure on Hizbollah to stop attacks on Israel. But Israel's ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon told CNN Israel believed its offensive was now the right way to deal with Hizbollah. The violence was the fiercest since 1996, when Israeli troops still occupied part of south Lebanon. US President George W. Bush voiced concern about the fate of Lebanon's anti-Syrian government, but offered no direct criticism of the punishment Israel meted out. "Israel has the right to defend herself," he said while on a visit to Germany. The European Union and Russia criticised Israel's strikes in Lebanon as a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict. Saudi Arabia, though, blamed "elements" inside Lebanon for the violence with Israel, in unusually frank language directed at Hizbollah and its Iranian backers. Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi al-Aridi said that Lebanon wanted an end to "this open-ended aggression" by Israel. In New York, the UN Security Council set an urgent meeting at Lebanon's request. The United States yesterday vetoed a council resolution put forward by Qatar on behalf of Arab states that called on Israel to immediately end its military incursion in Gaza. The bombing of Beirut's international airport forced flights to divert to Cyprus. Later, Israeli aircraft targeted fuel tanks at the airport, setting at least one tank ablaze. Planes dropped leaflets in a Beirut suburb, urging residents to stay away from Hizbollah offices, witnesses said, a move that raised the possibility that Hizbollah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, could be targeted. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=601&ObjectID=10391263" id="233910"> More Pictures Israeli airstrikes and shelling have already killed at least 55 Lebanese civilians since the two soldiers were captured on Wednesday, while a steady barrage of Hizbollah rocket fire into northern Israel has killed two Israeli civilians and wounded 90. Israeli aircraft struck the main highway linking Beirut with the Syrian capital, Damascus, earlier today, a Lebanese security source said. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties. Two Hizbollah missiles hit the Israeli port of Haifa, the country's third largest city, in a move Israel described as a "major escalation" since Haifa, home to around 250,000 people, lies more than 30 km from the Lebanese border. No one was injured in the Haifa attacks. Hizbollah denied firing on Haifa. In total, Israel said Hizbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, fired more than 100 rockets at towns and villages in the north on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuries. The military offensive coincided with an major Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip to retrieve a captured soldier and halt Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli troops fired a tank shell at a vehicle in Gaza today, killing a Palestinian and wounding another, Palestinian medics said. The threat of a larger-scale Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon to prevent the rocket fire gained currency after the Haifa strikes although the military remained tight-lipped. "All options are available," army spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal said when asked about the possibility of an offensive. "Strategically speaking, if the third largest city in Israel is under attack, it's a big thing and a response can be expected." In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Israel not to attack Syria, saying such action would be considered an assault on the whole Islamic world that would bring a "fierce response", state television reported. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, speaking in Germany, urged Israel to exercise restraint but also demanded that Syria put pressure on Hizbollah to stop attacks on Israel. But Israel's ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon told CNN Israel believed its offensive was now the right way to deal with Hizbollah. The violence was the fiercest since 1996, when Israeli troops still occupied part of south Lebanon. US President George W. Bush voiced concern about the fate of Lebanon's anti-Syrian government, but offered no direct criticism of the punishment Israel meted out. "Israel has the right to defend herself," he said while on a visit to Germany. The European Union and Russia criticised Israel's strikes in Lebanon as a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict. Saudi Arabia, though, blamed "elements" inside Lebanon for the violence with Israel, in unusually frank language directed at Hizbollah and its Iranian backers. Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi al-Aridi said that Lebanon wanted an end to "this open-ended aggression" by Israel. In New York, the UN Security Council set an urgent meeting at Lebanon's request. The United States yesterday vetoed a council resolution put forward by Qatar on behalf of Arab states that called on Israel to immediately end its military incursion in Gaza. The bombing of Beirut's international airport forced flights to divert to Cyprus. Later, Israeli aircraft targeted fuel tanks at the airport, setting at least one tank ablaze. Planes dropped leaflets in a Beirut suburb, urging residents to stay away from Hizbollah offices, witnesses said, a move that raised the possibility that Hizbollah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, could be targeted. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=601&ObjectID=10391263
TameasDust	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 9:36 PM http://www.cnn.com/
Fraser	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 10:01 PM Go Isreal! They're like the boy who everybody picks on, but kicks total ass!
kingo	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 10:08 PM Jesus. Rah rah rah, huh?
fanch-t	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 10:29 PM And the world will bow before the son of man. And the son of man will tell the world.."Come on guys, really? I mean, Jesus, what the heck are you thinking."
hate9wicket	Date: July 13, 2006 @ 10:49 PM Yeah well, big fucking pink god-damned elephants http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/38946/#more Gee, I wonder why Putin is not defending Israel?
TameasDust	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 12:48 AM http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/Mekava.htm Israel has good stuff
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 2:39 AM Israel's policy is to blame whoever it wants for attacks on them just so they can then justify a "retaliation", in this case it's Beirut... again. wait until they decide to pick on another country, once they've overrun Gaza and Lebanon... War anyone? why isn't the UN and half the world saying anything louder?
SimonWaldram	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 3:09 AM Because it's Israel, and Israel has the backing of the United States (which is where they got the bombs to do this, of course). Can you imagine if it was bombing was the other way around? America would have wiped Lebanon off the map by now.
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 8:04 AM books his bunker at the North Pole, just in case
sinai	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 10:47 AM isreal will survive, so jesus can have a home town to convert when he returns from heaven... or so the u.s. can have a friend in an unpopular section of the world...
GeneHilbert	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 11:51 AM I see it as militant Muslims getting what they wanted.... A chance to meet Allah If you yank on the tail of a dog long enough – eventually you’ll get bit….. A little southern wisdom for ya…….
victorsskull	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 11:53 AM I smell world war 3 to much shit goin down at once
TameasDust	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 3:50 PM revelations again??? this has been buildin for years ... bout time they settled it once and for a few years
jewsus	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 4:54 PM that's what those damn jews get for not making me their savior...
Fraser	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 10:15 PM I love hearing what everybody thinks about Jesus. I can tell you guys have great respect for other's religions.
BOWILLIE	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 10:35 PM where did israfel get rockets from?
GWBush	Date: July 14, 2006 @ 10:39 PM It's a secret.
sinai	Date: July 15, 2006 @ 1:55 PM wouldn't it be funny if we found out islamic fundalmentalism cures cancer?
BOWILLIE	Date: July 15, 2006 @ 2:10 PM must be the healing properties of turban wearing...
K3VIN	Date: July 15, 2006 @ 2:12 PM most turbans are worn to block sand, only sihks wear it for religious purposes i believe
Jessy	Date: July 15, 2006 @ 8:27 PM
TameasDust	Date: July 16, 2006 @ 6:32 AM JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A rocket attack by Hezbollah killed at least eight Israelis on Sunday in the northern coastal city of Haifa, according to Israeli medical services. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the attack "will have far-reaching implications" on Israel's relationship with its "northern neighbors." The eight killed and 17 wounded were in a railway depot. Hezbollah said it was targeting the oil refinery complex inside Haifa's industrial zone, which is near the railway facility. A short time later, another barrage of rockets hit the port city, according to the Israeli military. No casualties were reported, Israeli medical services said. Rockets also hit the northern towns of Akko and Nahariya on Sunday, and residents of northern Israel were called to take cover in bomb shelters In a statement on Al Manar television Sunday, Hezbollah said it fired "tens" of Raad-2 and Raad-3 rockets at Haifa in retaliation for Israel's airstrikes Saturday night on the militant group's stronghold in southern Beirut and on Lebanon's infrastructure. It was the second time Haifa has been pummeled with rockets since Israel and Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon began trading fire on Wednesday. Hezbollah militants, who the Israeli military says have fired over 450 rockets into northern Israel, denied they were responsible for a rocket attack on Haifa on Thursday. Israeli military sources said that attack involved longer-range, Iranian-made missiles, and marked the first time rockets have hit so deeply in Israeli territory. Haifa, which is about 30 miles from the Lebanon border, is Israel's third largest city. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah Friday declared "an open war" on Israel, and vowed to take the war to Haifa "and beyond." With Sunday's deaths, 12 Israeli civilians and 9 military personnel have been killed since Wednesday. More than 100 have been wounded. Israel warplanes hit Beirut suburbs Israeli forces bombed the Jiyeh power plant south of the Lebanese capital early Sunday, sending plumes of smoke billowing across the sky, Lebanese Army sources said. The sources said they had no report on casualties in the strike. Israeli warplanes were blasting the southern suburbs of Beirut in an attempt to destroy Hezbollah strongholds. Some of the bombs were dropped only 10 minutes apart and were aimed at targets in the center of the capital, CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson said. A Hezbollah stronghold in Dahiya, in Beirut's southern suburbs, was also hit, Israel Defense Forces said. The day before, the IDF said soldiers conducted an aerial attack on the group's main headquarters in Beirut. Israel also struck northern Lebanon near its border with Syria. Lebanese security sources on Sunday said 90 civilians and three soldiers have been killed and 262 wounded since fighting began Wednesday. Targeting radar stations In response to a Hezbollah attack on an Israeli warship off the coast of Lebanon, the Israeli military launched airstrikes Saturday targeting Lebanon's military radar stations along its coast, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF blamed "cooperation between Hezbollah and the Lebanese military" for the missile attack Friday night that killed at least one sailor. Three other Israeli sailors are missing. The IDF said that it "has no intention" of targeting the Lebanese military, but "will continue to act with determination to eliminate the threat of terror by terror organizations operating from Lebanon at Israel and to return the abducted soldiers." The IDF initially said the warship was struck by an unmanned aircraft packed with explosives. But Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said Saturday that it was a Chinese-made C-802 missile. Hezbollah leader Nasrallah had claimed responsibility for the attack on the Israeli warship and called it "just the beginning." He also threatened "open war" with Israel
pmscpc	Date: July 21, 2006 @ 8:46 AM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456976/html/nn1page1.stm Just a little background info into the whole tragic mess. And it's One, Two Three what are we fighting for.....
sinai	Date: July 21, 2006 @ 8:50 AM Getchur God On!

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