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2006-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah claims shooting down Israeli copter - TV
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-20 12:51|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Iranian TV, the other day, also claimed the shooting down of an Israeli F16 and taking the two pilots hostage. Unless I hear otherwise, this is just another piece in the Islamic propaganda campaign. This has "Domestic Consumption" written all over it.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-20 13:03||   2006-07-20 13:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Heh. Does this mean the IAF has destroyed another Zelzal missile?
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-07-20 13:10||   2006-07-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU! The only thing these "Israelis" are capable of doing well is making BAGELS. The Israelis again, for the fourth day, tried to invade Lebanese territory. At Maarun Raas the encounter with the sissy pseudo-soldiers took place. The result very predictable-three "Israeli" soldiers dead, 10 injured, three tanks destroyed and a chopper shot down. (An Israeli F-16 did indeed crash on take off-it was "overloaded with amminition and bombs" according to the "Israeli" airforce!) What complete buffoons-wasting hard earned American tax dollars. And they dropped 23,000 pounds of explosives on a construction site. Forget killing a Hizbullah soldier, they couldn't even kill infants and babies-the only thing they are good at doing (and making bagels, ofcourse). I was talking to a taxi driver here and he just wants the border to open up so that he can rip up the sissies. I hope we don't get over confident though, even though we know that fighting these spoilt pre-schoolers will be a piece of cake-God Willing. Total military casualties to date: One Hizbullah (The Knights of Islam) martyred-God Willing and 17 zionist spoilt sissies sent to hell and 21 to the vegetable ward. (The "Israeli" military says they have destroyed half of the Hezbollah military-And the Pope's Jewish). PLEASE-can't you pick any real men to defend your den of thieves-Don't you have any? We need a challange PLEASE-Thanks.
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-20 13:46||   2006-07-20 13:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Oscar! Welcome back. Is this a single shot or will you be engaging in more scintilating repartee?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-20 13:50||   2006-07-20 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Right Levant. Just like the fake moon landings. Just wait until you get invaded.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-20 13:50||   2006-07-20 13:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry. Correction. Four Israelis sent to hell.
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-20 13:54||   2006-07-20 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Ooops. "Israelis".
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-20 13:55||   2006-07-20 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey Levant any consideration as how this all got started? PS you can't go back 5,000 years and say it's all the fault of the Joooos. Let's look at say 1982 - present?
Posted by Rightwing 2006-07-20 14:04||   2006-07-20 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 He's just as cute as a kitten, isn't he! And trainable, too -- look, he spelt bagel correctly today. He seems to like them an awful lot; how did he develop a taste for such things in Syria?

But not terribly intelligent, if he doesn't wonder why the Lebanese are cowering in fear of the spoilt, sissy, "Israeli" pseudosoldiers, given they are so ineffective. Or why the Lebanese Prime Minister thinks it would take the entire world to stop Israel from doing as it wills. Or that the reason we don't have counts of Hizb'allah deaths is because the bodies are trapped in destroyed tunnels and bunkers, and nobody cares enough to go in and see. And the silly actually believes what his taxi driver said to get a bigger tip! (You did give him a bigger tip, my dear Mr. Levant? Such perspicacity on the part of a mere taxi driver deserves a proper reward, surely!)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 14:16||   2006-07-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 yeah, Levant, you just keep believing that as you get your ass kicked. In fact, why don't you go join the fight since you are such a tough guy and the Israelies are such pussies.
Posted by 2b 2006-07-20 14:16||   2006-07-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 C'mon guys...you know better than to even notice the plant ranters from DailyKos.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-20 14:17||   2006-07-20 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 mcsegeek1, one of the moderators noted yesterday that Mr. Levant's posts are arriving via Syria, and I asked nicely that we be allowed to keep him as a pet. I've never had a pet Syrian before, and he's as cute as a retarded puppy! (He was as cute as a kitten before, but then he missed putting the quotes around Israelis... and then corrected it! He's just perfect!)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 14:27||   2006-07-20 14:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Islam is a sleeping GIANT. It needs to be woken up.
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-20 14:30||   2006-07-20 14:30|| Front Page Top

#14 I thought that was China.
Posted by Napoleon Buonaparte 2006-07-20 14:33||   2006-07-20 14:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Speaking of retarded puppies, we got the first season of Gunsmoke from Netflix. They have an episode where a character who can only be described as a retarded puppy is played (this is 1955, remember) by Aaron Spelling. In another, Charles Bronson plays, you'll never guess, a psychotic killer. So far no good shots of Miss Kitty.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2006-07-20 14:38||   2006-07-20 14:38|| Front Page Top

#16 All those riots are because Islam is asleep? How self-destructive will it become when it awakens? The entire economic basis of the Muslim world will be burnt to the ground by rioting hordes if you are correct, my dear Mr. Levant.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 14:39||   2006-07-20 14:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Hi, Mrs. D! How've you been? We missed you!
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 14:42||   2006-07-20 14:42|| Front Page Top

#18 Levant, baby, Islam is a decaying dog, which is why I left it. There are millions more like me in the West, who haved turned away from the barbarous faith of their deluded ancestors. The only question is this: will you muzzies give up your evil, death-worshipping Allah-cult, or will the rest of the world world have to erase your sorry butts from the surface of the planet? The choice is yours.
Posted by Apostate 2006-07-20 14:45||   2006-07-20 14:45|| Front Page Top

#19 For all we know Levant is correct about Israeli losses. Israel's Army does not appear as ready take down Hezbollah as we might have expected and is improvising even more than is typical in war. News sometimes travels slowly from the battlefield. Levant's sources may be more accurate.

That said, assuming he is right, what is remarkable is that this would be among the biggest victory for his ilk in at least a generation. He's doing a victory lap based on the rumored outcome of a small skirmish.

What distinguishes successful societies (successful in war, business, sports, whatever they all seem corelated), like Israel, from backwater countries is that they are more likely to learn from mistakes and make the adjustment necessary to prevail rather than blame external forces (the Joos!) and seeth.
Posted by JAB 2006-07-20 14:58||   2006-07-20 14:58|| Front Page Top

#20 Must be fun to be a Muslim during wartime. Everyone's expectations are so low that whatever happens you can claim victory.
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-07-20 15:00||   2006-07-20 15:00|| Front Page Top

#21 Levant, do yourself a favour and read the article today by Victor Davis Hanson "Patience is wearing thin".

Then take a little bit of time to read some previous posts here on Rantburg - you're very new and may not realise the depth of experience the posters have. For the most part, the posters are trying to find a way forward so that the apocalyptic visions we all know are possible do not come to pass. If it does come to that though, the consequences will be horrific. A single Trident submarine is capable of killing hundreds of millions of people. The US has 18.

And here's the clincher - it doesn't have to be the West that does it, Russia has more than enough weapons to spare, China probably doesn't yet, but is certainly able to. Japan, if it goes nuclear, could rival the US in warheads in just a few years.

The time for Islam to get it's act together is running out rapidly - seriously.

Your coming to a site like this and spouting off about sissy Israelis is facile when the real issue is the cannon that is being (very reluctantly) pointed at Islam's head.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-20 15:10||   2006-07-20 15:10|| Front Page Top

#22 But some of us do want the apocolyptic visions to come to pass because we believe it is now the only way to solve the problem permanently. And the sooner the better. We write our congrescritters regularly to get funding restored for neutrom bombs so that there won't be physical damage. Have a Nice Day.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-20 15:15||   2006-07-20 15:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Yo, Levant, whatsup with that NasralAllah dude? Haven't heard/seen him for a bit. I understand, he my be tied up... in the bathroom having diarrhea (also called shitting his pants). That is, if he did not became a sublime cloud of aerosol in the menawhile.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-07-20 15:37||   2006-07-20 15:37|| Front Page Top

#24 The Muslims winning a war is like winning a race in the Special Olympics, you may win but, you're still retarted.

BTW, the correct grammar is "Israeli's" not "Israelis," as in plural for more that one Israeli. Welcome to America! Enjoy the pork sandwich.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-20 15:37||   2006-07-20 15:37|| Front Page Top

#25 NS comments about some RBers wanting the end game or at least rocognizing that it's the path we're on. Sad thing is...the Moose-Limbs seem to want it even more. Levant is the perfect example. They really don't know what the hell they're up against and I have long since stopped caring what happens to them. Whatever does, they clearly have wished very hard for it.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-07-20 15:48||   2006-07-20 15:48|| Front Page Top

#26 Levant, Did you get to see those Israeli fighter jets that said hi to Asshead?
Posted by Mike N. 2006-07-20 15:59||   2006-07-20 15:59|| Front Page Top

#27 I'm afraid you're wrong on that grammar point, Poison Reverse. The apostrophe would indicate possessive; a simple s at the end indicates plural. Your way is actually the common usage though, especially amongst technical people, just as there have become two spellings of gauge -- gage being the now-accepting technical usage, and is so defined in the better dictionaries. (A point I was shocked to be proved wrong about two decades ago, although it was quite salutory indeed -- I'm much less obnoxious as a result.) ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 16:05||   2006-07-20 16:05|| Front Page Top

#28 tw,

Ok. I am shocked. I am usually not corrected on grammar. Coming from you, I'll take it as a compliment.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-20 16:14||   2006-07-20 16:14|| Front Page Top

#29  I was just taking a welcome tour of the Rantburg. (Please make a RANTBURG WELCOME TOUR for new visitors like me. Thanks.) Boy! What a cast of characters you've got-"Iblis", "Apostate" and "Kaafir for ever". Wow!Will you be holding a Rantburg Halloween Dance party this year? Will "trailing wife" be dancing with "Iblis"? Can we see it here live via tele-conferencing? I mean I would love to view "Apostate" on the screen. What kind of a person could this be? Just look at what he/she says: "Islam is a decaying dog, which is why I left it. There are millions more like me in the West..." Will "Apostate" come to the party as a cockroach or will he put on a costume? Will Salman Rushdie be at your ball too? I LOVE IT...I LOVE IT...I must say this paper MUST get international publicity.
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-20 16:20||   2006-07-20 16:20|| Front Page Top

#30 We have Rant-a-paloozas where we all get drunk on alcoholic beverages and say what we really think. Sometimes people dance on the tables. You'll be invited to the next one for sure. Spouses optional.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-20 16:24||   2006-07-20 16:24|| Front Page Top

#31 TW can dance with whomever she wishes. That's the difference between our societies. You should come to the next Rant-A-Palooza so I can stab a ham sandwich to your face. Smartass.
Posted by Mike N. 2006-07-20 16:33||   2006-07-20 16:33|| Front Page Top

#32 "Will you be holding a Rantburg Halloween Dance party this year?"

Be careful, dancing with infidels is an Apostasy.
Posted by Poison Reverse 2006-07-20 16:33||   2006-07-20 16:33|| Front Page Top

#33 I'm sure you will be welcome at the Rant-a-palooza. Living in Washington State (and employed full time) I haven't had an opprotunity to myself :(.

Spouses (and I presume kids) are optional but no goats or sheep please - we do have some standards...

Would probably invlte you to the halloween party but that is for imaginary monsters only.

Have a good day!
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-20 16:43||   2006-07-20 16:43|| Front Page Top

#34 trailing wife is generally limited to those who can and enjoy dancing, although due to entirely too many years spent studying the wrong dance styles she requires a very strong lead when waltzing or doing the jitterbug, which Mr. Wife is often happy to provide. I'm afraid I don't know you well enough to let you write your name on my dance card, Mr. Levant, but in his brief time here Apostate has demonstrated that he is a gentleman and a scholar. The nyms do indeed make an interesting study of world history, literature and various units of our armed forces, although I expect "Mrs. Davis" will be beyond understanding without a lot of time in the deep archives. Tony (UK)'s advice is as wise as usual, and you would do well to heed the rest of his post.

For those who haven't read it, Dave D.'s incisive analysis of the options facing us (written as only a practicing and expert engineer can -- no wasteful verbiage from his pen!) is well worth the few minutes it will take to read. I don't know that Mr. Levant, however, is ready to understand the implications for himself and his taxi driver therein.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-20 16:45||   2006-07-20 16:45|| Front Page Top

#35 Oh, no no no - I must INSIST that Levant come to the party we West Cost Rantburgers are having in Carson City! You could be the beau of the ball, Levant.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-07-20 17:00||   2006-07-20 17:00|| Front Page Top

#36 Sorry but I'm not happy. Could any of you be happy if you were forced into an arranged marriage with your cousins goat? It wasn't even a boy goat. At least our Pedphile for Profit, Muhamhead got to choose his own 6 year old girl to be his "wife").

None of you have respect for us like your Godless America liberal turncoats do. If you don't Allah demainds that we dress our camels in women's clothes and then throw rocks at you. Trust me it's a Mecca tradtion.
Posted by  Levant 2006-07-20 17:17||   2006-07-20 17:17|| Front Page Top

#37 I see that "Baghdad Bob" is back in the comic propaganda business using the nom de plum of "Levant". Levant? Isn't that someone who runs away?
If nothing else, he's learned how to spell bagel correctly.
Posted by GK 2006-07-20 17:47||   2006-07-20 17:47|| Front Page Top

#38 None of you have respect for us like your Godless America liberal turncoats do. If you don't Allah demainds that we dress our camels in women's clothes and then throw rocks at you. Trust me it's a Mecca tradtion.

I'm confused. Is Levant trying to be RB's version of LGF's Aisha?
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-20 17:55||   2006-07-20 17:55|| Front Page Top

#39 long after this article appeared... Shepard Smith was on LIVE on FOXNEWS and a Israeli chopper crashed 5 miles inside Israel and close to him while on screen. Unfortunately all 2 aboard died.
Posted by 3dc 2006-07-20 18:00||   2006-07-20 18:00|| Front Page Top

#40 Teevee talking head said 2 choppers collided, with 5 hurt. Not sure this is the same incident.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-20 18:37||   2006-07-20 18:37|| Front Page Top

#41 I sense the presence of Tony The Turbin.
Posted by 6 2006-07-20 20:03||   2006-07-20 20:03|| Front Page Top

#42 anonymous5089: You can bet your a$$ it is. Claims by these radical groups have to be based in fact and then twisted to the breaking point before being sent out for general seething consumption. Those who consume it are obligated to have their brains in "accept everything the MMs tell me because the speak for Allan" mode.
Posted by gorb 2006-07-20 20:27||   2006-07-20 20:27|| Front Page Top

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