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2006-08-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-04 15:04|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 and ....

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-04 15:06|| 2006-08-04 15:06|| Front Page Top

#2 looks pretty precise

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-04 15:07|| 2006-08-04 15:07|| Front Page Top

#3 that's only a part of Beirut

Posted by Clerert Uneamp2772 2006-08-04 15:08|| 2006-08-04 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice grouping...

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-04 15:10|| 2006-08-04 15:10|| Front Page Top

#5 As an Architect and Urban Planner, I LOVE good urban renewal projects.

Gotta hand it to the IAF, they know how to redesign a neighborhood

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-04 15:11|| 2006-08-04 15:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, Urban Renewal.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-04 15:18|| 2006-08-04 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 That's only a handful of city blocks, AFAICT.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-08-04 15:36|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-08-04 15:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Let me know when all of Beirut looks like our Marine barracks in 1983. Although heartwarming, these developments, much like the proverbial 70 lawyers in a bus at the bottom of a lake, are merely a good start.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-04 15:46|| 2006-08-04 15:46|| Front Page Top

#9 eminent documents were on file, I guess?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-04 15:51|| 2006-08-04 15:51|| Front Page Top

#10 eminent domain...D'oh! Idiot!

actually it's more like vector control than war

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-04 15:59|| 2006-08-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 No doubt this is the area the HezbAllah PR men take all the news crews for their 'money' shots.

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2006-08-04 15:59|| 2006-08-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes that would have to be Nic Robertson's vacation spot.

Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-08-04 16:04|| 2006-08-04 16:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Let us hear it for smart bombs.

But, carpet bombing does leave a warm fuzzy in my heart.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-08-04 16:06|| 2006-08-04 16:06|| Front Page Top

#14 I take it the BFH (Big Freakin' Hole) in the center is the ex-bunker under the mosque?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-04 16:18|| 2006-08-04 16:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Looks like we've come a long way since the vaunted Norden bombsight. Works for me!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-08-04 16:27|| 2006-08-04 16:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Much as I detest the NYT, they have a very nice interactive page for these pictures that also includes labels. Click the buttons at top to toggle before/after pix and labels.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-08-04 16:41|| 2006-08-04 16:41|| Front Page Top

#17 The lighting angle between the two photographs is different. This seems to give the "before" picture much higher contrast than the "after" one.

Posted by Phil 2006-08-04 16:44|| 2006-08-04 16:44|| Front Page Top

#18 The lighting angle between the two photographs is different. This seems to give the "before" picture much higher contrast than the "after" one.

because the "camera was sad" at the destruction spawned by the evil Jooooos

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-04 16:51|| 2006-08-04 16:51|| Front Page Top

#19 Contrast on 'flat' is less, Phil, because all the flatness is humilliating.

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-08-04 16:54|| 2006-08-04 16:54|| Front Page Top

#20 It's too bad Moses is dead. Robert Moses, that is. I'm waiting for the Beirut SimCity scenario.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-08-04 17:57|| 2006-08-04 17:57|| Front Page Top

#21 EJ, you bring up a great point. Moses probably would have been the only modern who could have understood and worked the Middle Eastern web of corruption to his advantage.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-08-04 19:16|| 2006-08-04 19:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Drop bigger bombs!!

Posted by long hair republican">long hair republican 2006-08-04 22:04|| 2006-08-04 22:04|| Front Page Top

#23 That was very kind of Israel to give the extremists there plenty of rocks to throw.

Posted by gorb 2006-08-04 22:39|| 2006-08-04 22:39|| Front Page Top

#24 That is south Beirut. I have seen full scale maps and the north of the city is barely touched. Who needs this kind of propaganda?

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-04 23:16|| 2006-08-04 23:16|| Front Page Top

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