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| Middle East |
| IDF continues West Bank ops... |
| 2002-04-04 |
The IDF has to move quick like a bunny to get anything of substance accomplished before the Euros can get the diploffensive put together. Pessimism over international peace efforts was accompanied by cries for blood revenge on the streets of Arab capitals across the region, where another day of protests and mass rallies lay ahead Thursday. Ummm... They were screaming for blood revenge before the incursions, weren't they? So what else is new? Columns of tanks and armoured vehicles smashed into Nablus from all directions late Wednesday, meeting stubborn resistance from armed Palestinian security forces. Nablus intelligence chief Talal Diwikat said Apache helicopers were bombarding the western side of Nablus as Israeli troops pushed into the centre, hindered by heavy fighting. Sounds like they have the Bad Guys pincered. Bet the Palestinians wish they had real officers instead of high-level killers. He said the Israelis were taking over Palestinian houses to use as command posts and were preventing Palestinian ambulances from entering refugee camps that were also invaded. That's too bad. Gosh. Quartering troops. That's unconstitutional. Maybe they should take them to court. As for the ambos, maybe they shouldn't have used them to transport explosives and gunnies before. Then they'd be respected now. You know, like cause->effect? Palestinian forces fired a home-made Qassam rocket toward Israel from Nablus, the army said, adding that it landed harmlessly on Palestinian land. How very effective of them. We won't dwell on the fact that the Qassam rockets had a little something to do with the start of this mess, will we? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |