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2006-08-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve 2006-08-14 08:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Israeli troops kill one of a group of armed Hizballah fighters at Banduriya in the central sector of South Lebanon at 1400 hours. Two hours earlier, they shot dead a Hizballah fighter who approached in a threatening way in Hadata village in west.

Now that's my kind of cease-fire.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-14 09:09|| 2006-08-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Berri was really saying to deploy the Lebanese army as an auxiliary (and supply depot) of Hizb'allah. Quit pretending and remove all the muslims south of the Litani.

Posted by ed 2006-08-14 09:22|| 2006-08-14 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 114 servicemen dead is equivalent to 6450 US dead. 5.3 mil Jewish Israeli vs 300 mil US population.

Posted by ed 2006-08-14 09:27|| 2006-08-14 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The monkey seems to be having some trouble getting it's hand back out of the bottle, eh?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-14 10:13|| 2006-08-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Ceasefire: "The small interval of time between successfully sending a hezzie to meet his virgins and targeting another."

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-14 12:06|| 2006-08-14 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Tehran: Hezbos Took a Beating

If you believe debka of course ...

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-14 12:20|| 2006-08-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 If you believe debka of course

Considering that Debka hate Olmert...

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-14 13:34|| 2006-08-14 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I've always thought the debka folks were somewhere at the right of Genghis Khan, which is one of the reasons I enjoy reading them.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-14 14:15|| 2006-08-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Debka is like Ernst Junger writing a warblog. :))

Posted by borgboy 2006-08-14 14:55|| 2006-08-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Borgboy,
who the f**k is Ernst Junger ?
Excuse my ignorance.

Posted by Elder of Zion 2006-08-14 15:38|| 2006-08-14 15:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds plausible that the IDF could have taken out many of the long range launchers. The IDF owns the skies and the Israeli's have outstanding sensor technology. They probably have pretty good intel on the ground too.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-08-14 15:46|| 2006-08-14 15:46|| Front Page Top

#12 DEBKAfile: Hizballah is filtering reinforcements into South Lebanon among returning refugees. They are taking up positions in the still undamaged bunkers and fortified civilian dwellings

August 15, 2006, 12:01 AM (GMT+02:00)

Therefore, although the rockets and guns were silent up to Monday night and thousands of displaced people in Israel and Lebanon headed for their ravaged homes, DEBKAfiles military sources report trepidation about the durability of the ceasefire. The tense calm was marred only by three incidents in which Israeli troops shot Hizballah fighters making threatening approaches after Israel ordered its ground, air, artillery and naval forces to hold their fire at 0800 Monday Aug. 14 unless threatened.

Northern Israelis came out of their bomb shelters after 33 days, South Lebanese cars clogged roads heading south from Beirut Monday morning. Both met scenes of destruction. After night fell, Hizballah staged victory celebrations in Beirut, while its leader, Hassan Nasrallah proclaimed a historic and strategic victory over Israel.

The IDFs northern command watching the thousands of displaced Lebanese flocking to their homes feared they would be used as cover for Hizballah to exploit the ceasefire for reinforcing its depleted South Lebanese forces.

By afternoon, their fears were realized: cars loaded with Hizballah fighters, boxes of guns and military equipment were clearly visible heading south. Israeli troops were not authorized to stop them. DEBKAfile quotes a senior military source as saying that Hizballah is making a mockery of the ceasefire which Israel honored. The situation is dangerous, he said, Most of Hizballahs fortifications, including its bunker network in the south, were not destroyed as reported. Fresh Hizballah strength is now heading back to man those war stations anew.

Earlier Monday, Lebanons Shiite parliament speaker Nabih Berrir asked for 48 hours to persuade Hassan Nasrallah to accept a new proposal for Hizballah forces to remain in the south with their arms as an auxiliary force attached to the Lebanese army units to be deployed south of the Litani River.

Israeli troops inside Lebanon will hold their positions until a strengthened international force and the Lebanese army are able to take over.

Posted by Legolas 2006-08-14 17:15|| 2006-08-14 17:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Hizballah has not announced its acceptance of the ceasefire.

Then why in blue blazes has there been any sort of ceasefire? If the principal antagonist in this conflict refuses to sign on then there should be no respite. This is ridiculous.

For many decades now, Israel has been held to a higher standard of morality than her foes. It's time to impose honest double-entry bookkeeping upon the terrorists. If they do not want to act honorably, then they need to be disregarded entirely in terms of having access to the usual mechanisms of negotiation or truce.

Islam's facade as the religion of peace [spit!] is finally becoming dislodged and it is up to all self-respecting nations to rip the mask from these perfidous and conniving b@stards for once and all. Iran and Syria muct be caused to face serious consequences for their collusion in this current conflict or else there can be no talk whatsoever of actually fighting any Global War on Terrorism.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-14 21:01|| 2006-08-14 21:01|| Front Page Top

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