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2009-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Katyusha rockets falling in Israel's North on the town of Nahariya
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Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 00:55|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 8:04 AM Two wounded up North. United Hatzalah and other emergency forces on the scene.
7:59 AM Rockets land in Nahariya, Shlomi, Kabri areas.
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 01:16||   2009-01-08 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 8:15 AM IDF shooting back at the source of the attack up North.

Residents of Shlomi & Kabri told to stay in shelters & others to prep them
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 01:21||   2009-01-08 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Game on, Tehran? Raging conflict while the new (unimpressive) crew takes the reins? Desperate attempt to forestall pre-emptive strike on mullah-nukes? Too much wine in my evening? (actually, not a drop tonight)
Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-08 01:30||   2009-01-08 01:30|| Front Page Top

#4 from ynet:
Rocket barrage hits northern Israel

At least three Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon land in Western Galilee region Thursday morning, near town of Nahariya; two people reported wounded in attack. School day cancelled in town

Ynet reporters
Published: 01.08.09, 07:50 / Israel News

A Katyusha barrage was fired Thursday at the Nahariya area in the Western Galilee. Police reported that two people were lightly wounded and evacuated to the local hospital. Several residents were treated for shock.



Police sappers received reports of three rocket hits, one in town and two others in open fields nearby.



Residents rushed to take cover in shelters and fortified areas, as children throughout the town were on their way to school.



The Magen David Adom emergency services raised their alert level to the maximum following the attack.


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The Home Front Command ordered residents to remain close to fortified areas.



Nahariya Mayor Jacky Sabag ordered school day in town cancelled in light of the attack. School was also cancelled in the neighboring community of Shlomi.



Hizbullah's television station al-Manar reported of the Katyusha attack at northern Israel, but did not attribute the fire to the organization.



Hizbullah forces have been put on the highest alert level this week, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported on Tuesday.



Earlier in the week Ynet reported that Lebanon was anxiously following the developments in Gaza. According to Al-Hayat, Hizbullah raised its alert level after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called up thousands of reserve soldiers and said some of them would be deployed along the northern border.



A Lebanese source was quoted by the paper as saying that the Shiite group is determined "not to give Israel a chance to avenge its defeat in the July 2006 war and has therefore raised its alert level for defense purposes."



Ahiya Raved, Hagai Einav, Roee Nahmias and Sharon Roffe-Ofir contributed to the report
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 01:43||   2009-01-08 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 4 Injured in attack up North.
8:55 AM First reports are saying that Palestinians in Lebanon fired the missiles on their own initiative and not Hizbollah. No confirmation yet on this report.
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 01:59||   2009-01-08 01:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I Hope and Pray that the Israelis quits possy footing around with Iran.

YES! What's needed:
A Focused and Liberal SHOCK and AWE Campaign, extended and sustained OVER, UNDER, AROUND and THROUGH Iran including plenty of left over 50,000,000 degree heat which should permanently impress and fuse Iran's ankle biters hiding out in South Lebanon.

Israel must deal with her sworn enemies because no one else will save her especially the Bad Actors and Bastxrds here in the West who are only willing to watch Israel commit suicide while they scold her.
Posted by Red Dawg 2009-01-08 02:22||   2009-01-08 02:22|| Front Page Top

#7 p ssy =
Posted by Red Dawg 2009-01-08 02:24||   2009-01-08 02:24|| Front Page Top

#8  Attack in North hit a Nursing Home

9:28 AM Rocket launched up North were not short-range Katyushas indicating the likelihood that Hizbollah did launch them.
(from http://muqata.blogspot.com/)
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 02:32||   2009-01-08 02:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Now it starts.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-08 03:14||   2009-01-08 03:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Hezballah was hoping that Israel would get involved in a two-front war last time if I remember right.

In the meanwhile, Iran proceeds full-tilt towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. For peaceful purposes, of course.
Posted by gorb 2009-01-08 03:15||   2009-01-08 03:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Iran is just begging for a beating...

from yesterday

Nasrallah: All Possibilities Open Against Israel

Posted by lftbhndagn">lftbhndagn  2009-01-08 04:29|| http://lftbhndagn.wordpress.com]">[http://lftbhndagn.wordpress.com]  2009-01-08 04:29|| Front Page Top

#12 You're exactly right Verlaine. The Hez-beasts and their Iranian masters have stepped into the trap and the jaws or closing. Israel has 12 days to engage and, if humanly possible finish off Iran's nukes before the Obama administration takes office.

Sound the Trumpets of Jericho. This is it.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-08 06:05||   2009-01-08 06:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Oil Rises as Lebanon Rockets Hit Israel, Widening Gaza Conflict
Crude oil rose, rebounding from its biggest decline in seven years, after rockets fired from Lebanon hit Israel, raising concern the widening Gaza conflict will threaten Middle East oil supplies.

Further rockets fired from Lebanon landed in northern Israel after a salvo launched last night, Agence France-Presse reported. Venezuela said it cut crude sales in accordance with last month’s OPEC decision, following similar notices from other members including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Yesterday, crude plunged the most since 2001 as U.S. stockpiles increased more than expected.

“Investors fear that if the conflict escalates Arab countries could unite against Israel,” said Andrey Kryuchenkov, an analyst with VTB Group in London. “And you have a huge producer, Iran, right next door, so events like this really intensify the geopolitical risk premium that exists generally in the Middle East
Posted by tipper 2009-01-08 06:33||   2009-01-08 06:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Reports the Katyushas from this morning were fired from next to UNIFIL base.

The Ahmed Jabril terror organization take responsibility for rocket attack in North

Hamas declines to progress with the Egyptian cease fire proposal

the question of the hour from the twitter site: Why is Hamas shooting at Israel during the 3-hour Humanitarian Cease Fire? Sederot is under heavy rocket fire the past 15 mins.
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 08:24||   2009-01-08 08:24|| Front Page Top

#15 this is probably from a Paleo group that is a sock puppet of Hezb

best to avoid a full scale response for the moment
Posted by mhw 2009-01-08 08:26||   2009-01-08 08:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Ahmed Jibril heads the PFLP-General Command. He's of Paleo descent, and was a captain in the Syrian army before breaking the group off from PFLP. PFLP-GC is a Syrian sock puppet.
Posted by Fred 2009-01-08 09:04||   2009-01-08 09:04|| Front Page Top

#17 Hopefully Israel can do something about Iran.

But I have this sinking feeling they can't/won't.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-08 09:52||   2009-01-08 09:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Hezb fires 3 rockets.

Fire 3 back....big ones, not crappy little katyushas.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-08 10:14||   2009-01-08 10:14|| Front Page Top

#19 As of pm local time both the Lebanese Govt and Hezbollah (but not Syria) have denounced the Katyusha attacks. That's pretty quick.



Posted by mhw 2009-01-08 11:38||   2009-01-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#20 Reports the Katyushas from this morning were fired from next to UNIFIL base.

Why am I not surprised? But, uh, just for future reference, when the UN tries to broker a ceasefire with promises of a UN security force to enforce it, keep this little incident in mind.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-08 11:47||   2009-01-08 11:47|| Front Page Top

#21 Popular Front, or People's Front?

SPLITTERS!
Posted by mojo">mojo  2009-01-08 12:12||   2009-01-08 12:12|| Front Page Top

#22 You have 30 minutes to evacuate the UNIFIL base!
Posted by Poison Reverse 2009-01-08 12:18||   2009-01-08 12:18|| Front Page Top

#23 Fire 3 back....big ones, not crappy little katyushas.

Fire 3 salvos from a MLRS-GPS missile battery, with a tight target box. Time delayed between salvos of course.
Posted by Spusosh the Prolific6862 2009-01-08 12:38||   2009-01-08 12:38|| Front Page Top

#24 Well, my guess is everyone is going to bitch out Israel for "oppressing" the Palestinians, and they're going to bail. Obama's only comment was that he felt sorry for the civilian casualties (i.e., his Palestinian buddies).

Then, Obama is wanting to tube the economy so that his "new world order--one world government" thing can get rolling, and this is a prime time to do it. The Dems already were successful in tipping the economy for their "October Surprise" and now they want to finish it. Like I said before, we're going to be watching the Presidency of (sociopath) Bill Ayers throughout Obama's term. His one goal is to take the US (vicariously his daddy) down. It's a personal thing.

Remember when Biden said, "something's gonna happen (after Obama takes office), and it might not seem like what we're going to do is the right thing, but you have to trust us that it is the right thing,"

Whatever "IT" is, it's already been planned. Everything else is just fluff, and designed to guarantee the "cooperation" of the populace. Nothing like taking people's money as a way to get them to cooperate . . .

With Gaza and the north hammering Israel, "SOMEONE" is going to have to come into the situation and bring "peace." My guess, Obama. And he'll make Jerusalem an "international city" under the auspices of the UN.

We'll see.

I agree that Israel should wipe out Iran's nukes now rather than later, since "later" is up in the air, and more like never with Obama leading the US.



Some
Posted by ex-lib 2009-01-08 14:11||   2009-01-08 14:11|| Front Page Top

#25 And here it is . . . the beginning of the new world order. All these pesky wars. All this economic turmoil . . . who will save us. OBAMA WILL SAVE US, and the WORLD (start music).

(from drudge)

PARIS – The leaders of France and Germany appeared to put disagreements over economic policy behind them Thursday, calling on the U.S. to join global efforts to address the financial crisis.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, leading a two-day conference with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the future of capitalism, said the crisis has shown that no country can go it alone on economic policy. "In the 21st century, there it is no longer a single nation who can say what we should do or what we should think," he said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the system "cannot continue as it is" and called for better-regulated financial markets.

. . .

"Leaders should look beyond financial markets, she (Merkel) said, singling out the American budget deficit and China's current account surplus — or trade balance — as problems upsetting the global economy.

A Congressional Budget Office report estimates that the U.S. federal budget deficit will hit an unparalleled $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year — and that is before President-elect Barack Obama's sweeping stimulus package is calculated.

(WHICH WILL GET US IN THE HOLE FOREVER)


Merkel said the International Monetary Fund has not managed to regulate global capitalism, and she called for the creation of an economy body at the United Nations, similar to the Security Council, to judge government policy.

But no more: "In capitalism of the 21st century, there is room for the state," he (Sarkozy) said.


So, there is more to the Katusha's than one might think . . .

WAR + BAD ECONOMY + SOCIALIST USA PRESIDENT = new world order


Now, I will go and barf my breakfast.

Godspeed, Israel.

Posted by ex-lib 2009-01-08 14:25||   2009-01-08 14:25|| Front Page Top

#26 We kept trying to tell everybody ex-lib...
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 14:33||   2009-01-08 14:33|| Front Page Top

#27 I know, 3dc.

Maybe they'll listen to someone from a long time ago . . . .

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman)
Posted by ex-lib 2009-01-08 15:54||   2009-01-08 15:54|| Front Page Top

#28 My wish: Obama vs. Cicero in debate on the fundamentals of democracy. Oh wait, Obama's too busy deciding which FAMILY DOG will get him the most public brownie points . . .
Posted by ex-lib 2009-01-08 15:56||   2009-01-08 15:56|| Front Page Top

#29 ex libe

A deficit during a RECESSION makes sense. It doesnt make sense during a boom. Guess who ran a massive deficit during a boom. Can you spell B-U-S-H?

There has been some coordination of macro economic policy since Bretton Woods. Google that, if you dont know what it is. Yes, it IS an inevitable result of economic ties between nations. NO it doesnt mean the end of sovereignty. hell the euros cant even manage to coordinate macro econ policy among themselves very well, and the EU is supposed to be this eevil superstate.

and yes, there is a role for the state in modern capitalism. Social welfare goes back to Bismarck. Economic regulation in the US goes back to the 1880s, and in a bigger way to Theodore Roosevelt.

Note Bene, if you think Obama is a commie on economics, you would NOT feel comfortable living in Israel.


Calm down. Take a deep breath. Obama has so far proposed a more moderate admin than I for one expected.
Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-08 16:17||   2009-01-08 16:17|| Front Page Top

#30 Now may we return to discussing South Lebanon?
Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-08 16:17||   2009-01-08 16:17|| Front Page Top

#31 My wish: Obama vs. Cicero in debate on the fundamentals of democracy.

Do we..uh, get to use...uhm, teleprompters?
-- Pope PEBO the First
Posted by SteveS 2009-01-08 16:35||   2009-01-08 16:35|| Front Page Top

#32 I think he would have a hard enough time vs. Clay Jenkinson, nevermind Cicero...so long as we don't have a Alcibiades on our hands. He changes his story so much I personally cannot believe a word he says.

Hamas wanted a prize fight and now they got it. Those working against Israel and trying to make it a 3 round limit now that their boxer is getting pummelled so as to let the judges decide the winner rather than have a KO. Smoke any location a rocket has been fired from and do it before they call the fight.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-08 16:39||   2009-01-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#33 The idea of deficits during recessions and surpluses during good times is old economics. All deficit, all the time is the wave of the future!
Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-08 17:02||   2009-01-08 17:02|| Front Page Top

#34  Now may we return to discussing South Lebanon?

I guess not.

Carry on.
Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-08 17:16||   2009-01-08 17:16|| Front Page Top

#35 Now may we return to discussing South Lebanon?

The property values are about to go to shit.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-08 17:29||   2009-01-08 17:29|| Front Page Top

#36 FailSoccer
Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-08 18:00||   2009-01-08 18:00|| Front Page Top

#37 same site:
Over 450 Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, since start of Cast Lead operation.

Today officially marks the legal end of Abu Mazeen's presidency. According to PA law, Hamas now controls the Presidency of the Palestinian Authority - including within Palestinian Occupied Judea and Samaria (West Bank). Will Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazeen) step down? Will Hamas fight to take control? Who does the (American trained) Palestinian Police now take orders from? Will America demand that PA law be upheld and Hamas legally take over, or will it demand a coup and keep Abu Mazen in power?

According to PA law the presidency now automatically goes to the Speaker, but (Hamas) Speaker Aziz Dweik is currently in jail in Israel, making (Hamas) Gaza-based Deputy Speaker Ahmed Bahar next in line. Abu Mazeen is claiming he can extend his presidency for up to another year (he has been taking lessons from Ehud Olmert).
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-08 18:34||   2009-01-08 18:34|| Front Page Top

#38 This northern salvo is a shot at the UN. They are administering the ceasefire in Lebanon, and making all the noise in Gaza about the humanitarian crisis. They clearly cannot manage either.

It will not take long for the truthers to accuse the Israelis of fired the rockets themselves, as it put the UN in a very embarrassing position.
Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5***  2009-01-08 20:17||   2009-01-08 20:17|| Front Page Top

#39 A number of Netters are arguing that, as per this posting time, ISRAEL may not think this is an actual HIZB-LED ROCKET STRIKE given the IDF's lack of strong counterresponse yet to same???

Time will tell.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-08 20:34||   2009-01-08 20:34|| Front Page Top

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