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2008-08-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

CNN takes a trip to a Gaza rocket factory

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Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 08:56|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 sounds like it's time to slip a GPS unit into a camera or notebook or two.

Posted by AlanC 2008-08-15 09:55|| 2008-08-15 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Burning tires surround the area, giving off putrid thick black smoke so nightly training is invisible to Israeli eyes in the sky.

Hint for the Israelis -- drop the bombs in the middle of the burning tires that stand out so beautifully in IR.

God, I don't know who's dumber -- jihadis or newsies.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-08-15 10:04|| 2008-08-15 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, look. The Israeli's watch CNN...

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in the Gaza Strip have announced that they are in possession of "Nasser-4" rockets that have a range of 25 kilometers and pose a threat to Ashdod. Senior activists in the organization claimed that the rocket was far more lethal than the current "Nasser-3" model.

The group said that it would launch the new rockets at Israel if the latter attempted to reoccupy Gaza. "We have been under siege for the last two years," Ibrahim Dahman, a senior PRC activist told CNN. "The only thing left is for them to invade and kill us."

The unveiling of the new rockets is a "clear violation" of the truce with Israel, Prime Minister's Office spokesman Mark Regev told CNN. "The cease-fire that was negotiated through Egypt was very specific that the Hamas movement and the other terrorist groups can't use it as a period to import more weapons, more explosives, more rockets into the Gaza Strip," Regev added.

He said that Israel reserves "the right to act, if need be, to protect ourselves. We don't want this current quiet just to be the quiet before the storm."

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 10:05|| 2008-08-15 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 We drive just outside Gaza City and are transferred into the back of an unmarked van; we are blindfolded, and our phones are taken away.

Meanwhile, an Israeli UAV tracking the "journalists" sees them get into this mysterious van and follows it to its destination...

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-08-15 10:06|| 2008-08-15 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Revered as freedom fighters by many here, reviled as terrorists in the West,

By 'many here' she must be meaning 'many here at CNN'...

CNN - the wholely owned Propaganda arm of Hamas.

I wonder which will be fired first and whether there will be civilian casualties.

I wonder if she hopes there will be civilian casualties.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-08-15 10:43|| 2008-08-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 The video.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/14/hancocks.militant.readiness.cnn

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 12:05|| 2008-08-15 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 They probably have her on speed dial...

Her turn to do the pizza run.....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-08-15 13:08|| 2008-08-15 13:08|| Front Page Top

#8 tu's inline comments, hilarious as usual. But who's orange?

Posted by phil_b 2008-08-15 14:12|| 2008-08-15 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Phil, Fred is Post-It Note® yellow, tu is the orange mod on a mission. FILTHY INFIDEL EDITOR!

Posted by Seafarious 2008-08-15 16:06|| 2008-08-15 16:06|| Front Page Top

#10 They told me it was "gold"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 17:34|| 2008-08-15 17:34|| Front Page Top

#11 tu: it could be worse, salmon/pink
fer instance......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-08-15 17:45|| 2008-08-15 17:45|| Front Page Top

#12 I think it's about time the US approved specific aid to Israel - I.E., a couple of ARCLIGHT strikes down through the center of Gaza. There are no "civilians" there - there are only card-carrying accessories to terror. Wipe out the entire da$$$$ place, including the goats and camels.

I have had six years of stupidity by muzlimbs shoved in my face, and I'm getting pretty da$$$$ sick and tired of it. I think it's time to take the gloves off, and do some SERIOUS a$$-kicking. Let these unwashed idiots learn what REAL war with a super-power can be, instead of playing these tit-for-tat childish games. It might even give Vlad a good idea as to why he needs to leave other nations alone, even former Russian conquests. It certainly would give Hoogo and Evo a few things to think about, and India an example to follow.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-08-15 18:09|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-08-15 18:09|| Front Page Top

#13 CNN this AM > seems the PRC is refusing to cooper wid the PA + HAMAS in turning over their new ISRAELI-discovered improved improvised rocket systems [16-18 km range] wid larger warhead].hich Israel claims is a de facto violation of the terms of their ceasefire wid Palest. Militant Groups.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-15 18:31|| 2008-08-15 18:31|| Front Page Top

#14 They told me it was "gold"...

They used to call it goldenrod for politeness, tu3031 dear. Before they referred to it as baby-poop brown.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-15 23:26|| 2008-08-15 23:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Eww. Guess I'll stick with orange.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-15 23:28|| 2008-08-15 23:28|| Front Page Top

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