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2006-07-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah rocket devastates three-story building in Haifa

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 IDF, you are being too restrained. Go for it. Take their infrastructure down ASAP. At the rate they're flooding Israel with missiles, they are bound to connect every once in a while.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-07-18 01:38|| 2006-07-18 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I say the Hezzies are sissies unless they focus all their rockets on the petrochemical facilities. After all, it's obvious the Joooos don't want it to happen, so it must be allen's will....

Posted by Bobby 2006-07-18 06:31|| 2006-07-18 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems to me that missiles capable of reaching Haifa are big enough and in the air long enough that Israel ought to be able to get a very precise fix on the launch site. They (IDF) say that's their operational focus. How are they (Hezb) getting away?

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2006-07-18 07:29|| 2006-07-18 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The missile launchers are mobile.

Posted by 6 2006-07-18 08:12|| 2006-07-18 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 They've been showing the Hezbollah Rocket Corp video on all the news networks. They have a truck mounted launcher with what looks like a dozen tubes in one horizontal row. Tubes appear to be 10 - 12 feet long. Truck looks like 10 ton size, easy to shoot and scoot.

Also caught glimpse of a man-portable single tube launcher on a tripod. Could be carried into a building and fired from a window, if you didn't care what happened to the inside of the room.

The rockets seem to be fired as single shots, rather than massed bombardment. That way makes it harder to pin down a launch site.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-18 10:10|| 2006-07-18 10:10|| Front Page Top

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