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Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
Unlikely Losers in Lebanon |
2006-10-17 |
![]() Same thing in 2006. It all began when Hizbollah noted that Israeli troops sometimes got sloppy, especially when reservists, who did most of the work guarding the Lebanese border, were at the end of their tour. That's how Hizbollah was able to kidnap two Israeli soldiers on July 12th, and kill another twelve, out of a company size force that pursued the kidnappers into Lebanon. Four of those dead were from a tank, that rolled right over a large Hizbollah bomb, placed where it was thought a tank would move. Like the Egyptians in 1973, Hizbollah got sharp, while the Israelis got sloppy. Israel also screwed up in it's intelligence work over the past six years. Hizbollah had run a deception plan right out of the Russian playbook. Russian military advisors have long been sought after in the Middle East for instruction on how to run effective deception operations. Hizbollah, for example, skillfully pretended to build false bunkers, while carefully hiding the actual ones being built. As a result, Israel only knew about the location of about twenty percent of the 600 weapons bunkers Hizbollah had built in south Lebanon. In the first few days of the war, Israel was able to knock out only about fifty of these bunkers. That's because many of them were very well made, often involving digging tunnels a hundred feet, or more, into hillsides. It appears that these bunkers were loaded up with some 18,000 rockets, most of them the nine foot long, 150 pound, 122mm models. That's only an average of about 30 rockets per bunker, plus a portable launcher. Many of the bunkers were dug under homes and government buildings. That was easy, as this new construction was designed with the weapons bunkers, in the basements, in mind. ![]() In the end, the Israeli had their way. Hizbollah declared victory, but they did so from hiding, and not while standing in their former south Lebanon stronghold. According to Hizbollah's twisted reality, there was no way they could lose. Even if Israel came into south Lebanon, told the UN to take a hike, and cleared everyone out of the area, Hizbollah would still stay they won. As long as someone could get in front of a microphone, camera or Internet connection, saying, convincingly, that they represented Hizbollah, victory could be proclaimed, and those so inclined to such fantasies, would accept it. ![]() |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#7 A few pertinent refs. Intel. flaw to blame in INS Hanit attack Dichter: Israeli Arabs helped Hizbullah attack us |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-10-17 15:02 |
#6 com/Dunno - I was thinking more along the lines of Jerry Quarry. The guy took a beatdown almost every time and always said "He never laid a glove on me!" |
Posted by: GORT 2006-10-17 08:50 |
#5 or Chuck Wepner - if he hadn't lost his entire bodily blood content, it was a moral victory. The ring may have looked like an abbatoir, but he was still standing |
Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-17 08:18 |
#4 We had a Pay-Per-View party, lol. Tex had a stone jaw, that's for damned sure. Holmes hit him with everything but the stool in his corner, lol. Made me tired just watching him wail on Cobb. :-} |
Posted by: .com 2006-10-17 02:27 |
#3 LOL .com You just dated yourself , as did I. :) I honestly think that was round one, Israel vs Hezbos, and not well done by politics. Israel wasn't given the green light by their gov't and their tactics and their stance suffered from it. LOL Randall "Tex" Cobbs, you reached back for that one |
Posted by: Dunno 2006-10-17 02:23 |
#2 Lasting longer than six days is considered a "victory"? Is this like Randall Cobb vs. Larry Holmes? Turned into fresh hamburger but, because he wasn't knocked stone cold out, he "won"? |
Posted by: .com 2006-10-17 01:20 |
#1 Good diagnoses of the shortcomings of the IDF. And, as we mentioned, if the lunatic Hezbs experience any more "victories" like this, they'll remand all Lebanon back to the 19th century. |
Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-17 00:31 |