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| Thousands of Hezbollah sites identified in Lebanon |
| 2011-06-10 |
| Israel has identified thousands of Hezbollah sites within Lebanon, making its "target bank" many times larger than it was in 2006, a senior IDF officer said just ahead of the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict. According to him, the IDF had approximately 200 pre-designated targets on July 12, 2006, when Hezbollah set off the war. Those targets included close to 100 homes and other storage sites where long-range missiles received from Iran had been deployed. Those targets were destroyed on the first night of the war. Today the bank has thousands more sites throughout Lebanon that would constitute legitimate targets. Earlier this year, the IDF released a map showing 950 locations scattered throughout the country -- many of them bunkers and surveillance sites. Hezbollah is also thought to have obtained more than 50,000 rockets and missiles. Most of these are stored in some 100 villages around southern Lebanon. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 Iran is the fly in the ointment. They supply both Hezbollah and Hamas; their terrorist proxies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-06-10 18:25 |
| #2 What's mainly required is willingness to kill a lot of human shields, TW. And take the resultant fallout. Any bets on who'll exhibit more "righteous" wrath: EUros who are now bombing defenseless Libyans (who weren't harming them in any way), or "dronezap" Obumba? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-06-10 15:36 |
| #1 Israel also has drones they didin't have in 2006, and vastly improved computers. I suspect it won't take much longer to wipe out Hizb'allah's explosives this time than last... Admittedly, I haven't the knowledge to go beyond suspicions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-10 15:17 |