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BREAKING Israel attacks terror base IN LEBANON
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Posted on 12/27/2005 7:31:42 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2

Edited on 12/27/2005 9:45:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

JERUSALEM - Israeli jets attacked a Palestinian militant group's training base in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, hours after an Israeli border town was hit by rocket fire, the military said.

The base located south of Beirut is operated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small group that has been waging a decades long fight against the Jewish state.

"This is in response to the firing of projectile rockets last night toward Israeli communities," the military said.

It said it views such attacks with "extreme severity" and holds Lebanon responsible.

There was no immediate word on casualties or damage in the strike, launched after three rockets landed in a residential area of Kiryat Shemona. The army said the rockets damaged some property but caused no injuries.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Both Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants operate in nearby southern Lebanon.

The raid came a month after Israeli jets attacked a command post of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in south Lebanon, responding to Hezbollah rocket and mortar attacks that wounded 11 Israeli soldiers and damaged a house in a border community.

Israel withdrew from an occupied enclave in southern Lebanon in 2000. While fighting in the area has dropped since then, the border remains tense and Hezbollah frequently targets Israeli troops in the disputed Chebaa Farms area.

Lebanon and Syria say Chebaa Farms is Lebanese territory, but U.N. cartographers who surveyed the border after the Israeli withdrawal said it belongs to that part of Syria which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel says it will discuss control of the area only in future peace talks with Syria.


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To: HHKrepublican_2
BREAKING Israel attacks terror base IN LEBANONBREAKING Israel attacks terror base IN LEBANON

Yawn. Wake me when Israel actually does something other than the usual tit-for-tat retaliation crap.

81 posted on 12/27/2005 10:28:23 PM PST by adx (Why's it called "tourist season" if you ain't allowed to shoot 'em?)
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To: HHKrepublican_2
Today: December 27, 2005 at 22:30:21 PST

Israeli Jets Hit Militant Base in Lebanon

By SAM F. GHATTAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli jets attacked a Palestinian militant group's training base in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, hours after an Israeli border town was hit by rocket fire, the military said.

The strike against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was Israel's deepest inside Lebanon since June 2004.

Lebanese witnesses reported hearing explosions as warplanes roared over the guerrilla base of the Syrian-backed group, which has been waging a decades long fight against the Jewish state.

"This is in response to the firing of projectile rockets last night toward Israeli communities," the Israeli military said.

It said it views such attacks with "extreme severity" and holds Lebanon responsible.

There was no word on casualties or damage in the raid, which came after three rockets landed in a residential area of Kiryat Shemona. The army said the rockets damaged some property but caused no injuries.

Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group and the mainstream Fatah Palestinian faction denied involvement in rocket attack.

In Wednesday's raid, the witnesses said two explosions were heard as the planes struck at the group's base, a maze of concrete fortified tunnels built inside a hill five miles south of Beirut. Two missiles were fired at the attackers.

Lebanese troops at a checkpoint confirmed an air raid and sealed off the area, preventing journalists from approaching.

Israeli warplanes struck the same base in June 2004 to retaliate for a rocket attack on an Israeli naval boat

The raid came a month after Israeli jets attacked a command post of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in south Lebanon, responding to Hezbollah rocket and mortar attacks that wounded 11 Israeli soldiers and damaged a house in a border community.

Israel withdrew from an occupied enclave in southern Lebanon in 2000. While fighting in the area has dropped since then, the border remains tense and Hezbollah frequently targets Israeli troops in the disputed Chebaa Farms area.

Lebanon and Syria say Chebaa Farms is Lebanese territory, but U.N. cartographers who surveyed the border after the Israeli withdrawal said it belongs to that part of Syria which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel says it will discuss control of the area only in future peace talks with Syria.

The PFLP-GC's commander is headquartered in Syria but the group maintains military bases in Lebanon, where it is accused of taking orders from Syria in support of its policies in Lebanon.

The PFLP-GC has carried out some high-profile attacks against Israel since it was formed in 1968: It hijacked one Israeli airliner, machine-gunned another at Zurich's airport, and then blew up a Tel Aviv-bound Swissair plane, killing all 47 aboard.

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AP writer Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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82 posted on 12/27/2005 10:31:27 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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Long Live Israel!!!!!


83 posted on 12/27/2005 10:49:59 PM PST by meanie monster (http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

How come when Israel is shelled from a neighboring country and they have to fly over there to stop the shelling the headlines always read Israel attacks it's neighbors?

Just a little MSM bias here?


84 posted on 12/27/2005 10:58:09 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ajolympian2004
June 8, 1982 - Operation Peace for Galilee: The destruction of the entire Soviet-Syrian air-defence system in Lebanon within few hours without a single warplane lost; Syria with the U.S.S.R built up an overlapping network of surface-to-air missiles, and the density of SAM site locations was unmatched anywhere in the world including the U.S.S.R. itself. Also the IAF achieved in dogfights a total of 80 Syrian planes shoot-downs, without a single Israeli plane being shot down.

Kind of shows which side GOD is on doesn't it!
85 posted on 12/27/2005 11:04:42 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak

sure does!


86 posted on 12/27/2005 11:08:04 PM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: The KG9 Kid
Lebanon has a long history of supporting terror against. This dates back to the 1950's.

Lebanon has a long history of granting terrorist access to Israel's northern border.

Lebanon is responsible for what goes on in her border.

She is attacked because the terrorist continue to have safe haven in her south.

87 posted on 12/27/2005 11:14:55 PM PST by carton253 (Al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die...)
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To: Walkingfeather
The world doesn't react with just sharp words or diplomatic disapproval.

They react by isolating Israel economically, diplomatically, academically...

Israel has to worry about the world's response since she is not an island or self-sufficient.

As for no one not caring... if only that were true. But the world does care. And is not afraid to "punish" Israel. Israel has felt this before.

88 posted on 12/27/2005 11:17:35 PM PST by carton253 (Al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die...)
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To: Uncle Jaque

Let's have some proof that the Saudis control US foreign policy...


89 posted on 12/27/2005 11:18:41 PM PST by carton253 (Al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die...)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Smite them real good!


90 posted on 12/27/2005 11:26:24 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SevenofNine

"What is best in life?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their minions before you, and to hear the lamentations of the mullahs! Allahu fubar!


91 posted on 12/27/2005 11:28:17 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

"Here's where the fun begins..."


92 posted on 12/27/2005 11:39:41 PM PST by newzjunkey (Prayers for our Troops and those missing loved ones in the coming year.)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

This is no new news! These are remnants of the Syrian occupation. Do not ask me who is still covering them and for what purpose.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1401371/posts?page=9#9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396335/posts?page=2#2

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391893/posts?page=2#2

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1392126/posts


93 posted on 12/28/2005 12:00:42 AM PST by Patrick_k
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To: NormsRevenge

Not much of a hit!


94 posted on 12/28/2005 12:04:15 AM PST by newzjunkey (Prayers for our Troops and those missing loved ones in the coming year.)
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To: adx
"Yawn. Wake me when Israel actually does something other than the usual tit-for-tat retaliation crap."


Well, they obviously didn't heed the lesson in Spielberg's movie Munich wherein retaliation is no better than terrorism. Shame on them. They should listen to Hollywood, because that is where all the rich, royal, smart people are. /s
95 posted on 12/28/2005 2:50:30 AM PST by commonguymd (Momentum)
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To: NormsRevenge

Mohamed: "What's that sound?"

Ahmed: "Not sure, it's a kind of whistling"

Mohamed: "Did you make tea?"

Boom! Skylight installation.


96 posted on 12/28/2005 2:54:10 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: commonguymd

Yeah. Israel should think hard about why they are attacked.
According to the liberals, after pearl harbor, America should think hard about why it got attacked by Japan. Hmmm, must years of oppression against Japan, I guess?


97 posted on 12/28/2005 3:09:28 AM PST by ConservativeChinese (Seperation between the Mosque and State! Public institutions should not favor Islam!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking the keyword Israel.

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98 posted on 12/28/2005 5:21:51 AM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Take out the Iranian nukes.


99 posted on 12/28/2005 5:25:18 AM PST by veronica (....."send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.")
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To: HHKrepublican_2

one big ATTABOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!


100 posted on 12/28/2005 5:30:03 AM PST by rrrod
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