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| IDF ready to remove Arafat - IAF buzzed Assad’s palace in August |
| 2003-10-23 |
| EFL The IDF is ready to carry out the cabinet’s decision to remove Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat the moment the orders are given, a senior military source told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. "We have presented plans showing the risks and the chances of the operation itself, including the options to remove him alive or not," he said. "The government has to make a decision to allow the army to act. The army is ready. The army always plans for all possibilities," he said. I can say no more! Oh, wait, he does... "I’m not worried. The battalions are strong and have high standards and are working well. Every four months, new soldiers are added to the fighting and officers are rotated. The standing army can keep this up for years," he said. He added that the current conflict will not end with a major military measure. "We can stage a major operation again, like Defensive Shield. We can do one in the Gaza Strip," he said. "But this conflict is one of stamina between the Palestinian and Israeli societies. What concerns me is the resilience and stamina of the Israeli society," he added. Yeah, that’s a problem over here, too. In a first acknowledgment by an IDF officer of the August report an IAF fighter buzzed Assad’s palace, he described what transpired. "Imagine this F-15 flying 50 meters above Assad’s palace at 1 a.m., with all of is thrusters directed exactly over the palace and no one even detected it until it was over the palace. This is embarrassing not to mention unpleasant," he said with a chuckle. |
| Posted by:Pete Stanley |
| #6 Heh. When I was a kid, I had the pleasure of having a couple of jets go over my house at tree-top level I spent summers as a kid on the N. Florida coast.... I waited for the suckers. Happiness was an afterburner... I once saw a B-52 running no more than 100 ft. above the marsh... I could see the flash paint on the underside... Ah! The sound of freedom. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-23 8:31:58 PM |
| #5 Yes it is. Especially flying meandering rivers at below treetop level (where there weren't any powerlines). Humming a tune from Dire Straits album. *sigh* Those were the days..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-23 5:43:25 PM |
| #4 Now AP, flying a Cessna a "grasstop" height must be fun too.... |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2003-10-23 5:39:29 PM |
| #3 Definitely more effect with an F-15 than my Cessna 172. I defer to the masters with the big fuel credit cards. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-23 4:55:19 PM |
| #2 "with all of is thrusters directed exactly over the palace" It was at this point that Bashir felt really vulnerable and scrambled under the bed for cover. Aides found him later in the fetal position sucking his thumb. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-23 4:42:13 PM |
| #1 Heh. When I was a kid, I had the pleasure of having a couple of jets go over my house at tree-top level. I distinctly remember seeing one of them PULL UP to go over some trees behind the house. Quite an experience -- and one that would, I think, fill your britches if the planes were from a country you've been ordering and funding atrocities against. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-23 4:25:43 PM |