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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| IDF built fake Muslim city to prepare for war - training 2 battalions/ week. |
| 2007-01-23 |
| Project started eight years ago, opened for business four months after first round of 2006 invasion to shut down Hizb'allah. Modelled after Ramallah, some of you will appreciate the artistic details described in the article. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Forget the uniforms. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-01-23 19:50 |
| #3 The town looked WAY too clean and orderly. Just like an Israeli or American city. But arab towns are complete shitholes with broken streets, half-finished housing, sewage in the streets, etc. |
| Posted by: Brett 2007-01-23 19:45 |
| #2 "During the exercise, 350 soldiers were spread out in the fake town, some playing the role of civilians while a few women, dressed in American uniforms and armed with laser target rifles, acted as Hizbullah fighters." I'm not sure about the American uniforms, but I like women playing the role as Hizbullah fighters. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2007-01-23 19:32 |
| #1 More interesting trivia: o One of the mosques have been declared the 43rd most holy place in Islam, just after Mohammed's crapper. o Twelve Palestinian families have shown up at the gate carrying keys, claiming the homes were their grandparents. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-01-23 19:15 |