7/24 Middle East Live Thread

Middle East Live Thread ^ | 7/24/06 | me

[BurbankKarl]

Hezbollah terrorists fire a missile from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.

[bnelson44]

nope. Although it may only be because the US is holding the world at bay.

[LucyT]

LOL,- do we need to ping smartass?

[bnelson44]

Why was Sidon hit? What's there?

[BurbankKarl]

Is your friend a diver? How do you get decomprssion? Unless is was in a plane?

[ScaniaBoy]

Diver - as am I, but I stayed in front of my computer screen yesterday.

And then they say blogging is bad for your health! Ppfff.

[MinorityRepublican]

The Americans probably told the rest of the world to shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

[NormsRevenge]

a mosque in sidon was being run by hezbollah, it was hit by air strikes last night, thousands have also fled there from southern lebanon.

[STARWISE]

I read that transcript ... every other comment by him to
Bolten was as "but" ... so predictable.

[kellynla]

Iraqi Shi'ite Militia Ready to Join Fight(Lebanon)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671116/posts

[BurbankKarl]

Israelis react at the scene of a rocket attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa July 23, 2006. More than a dozen Hizbollah rockets slammed into the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 15, medics and the army said.

More photos you wont see on CNN

[NormsRevenge]

A man climbs on the dome of a mosgue, part of a religious complex that used to consist of the mosque and a religious school, destroyed overnight by Israeli warplane's missile attacks inside the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, July 23, 2006. Israel hit inside Sidon for the first time in its campaign, destroying the complex linked to Hezbollah and wounding four people. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

[bnelson44]

Thanks do you or anyone else know why grain silos were hit in Tripoli at the beginning of the conflict? Or were they grain silos?

[conservativepoet]

08:38 MK Steinitz: Inefficacy of ground operation is exposing our weakness (Haaretz)

08:16 Six IDF soldiers lightly wounded in exchange of fire in Bint Jbeil (Haaretz)

08:16 IDF chief: For every Haifa attack, troops will strike 10 south Beirut houses (Haaretz)

08:13 Olmert asks Peres to go to U.S. to explain Israeli policy, get aid for north (Haaretz)

[Allegra]

Ziene. Saba al khair! Ente shlonek?

(Good moring! And how are you?)

[STARWISE]

Glad you're outta there .. news said Beirut's getting pounded.
Are you in contact with any of your colleagues there?

[BurbankKarl]

Friends of Israeli soldier Liran Sa'adiya react during his funeral in the northen Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona Sunday, July 23, 2006. Sa'adiya was killed in the Lebanese village of Maroun Ras during exchange of fire with Hezbollah guerrillas on Saturday

[bnelson44]

What was it like over there?

[Fitzcarraldo]

The first missile fired is the pathfinder; a spotter in the target city sends back the coordinates of impact and incremental adjustments are made for succeeding launches.

There are random factors, differences in rocket performance, rpesence of Israeli aircraft, etc. to deal with.

Nasrullah probably has a sophisticated computer program and database to cover his launch sites, targets and rocket characteristics.

His aim gets better and better with time...

[NormsRevenge]

not sure about the grain silos, maybe trying to starve hezbollah out,,

[casino66]

Ziene. OK I have depleted the what I learned last nite in lesson one. And I don't think I am going to be able to stay awake for the second lesson. I did think of two questions: one, have you ever uploaded anything to a site like YouTube? and two, have you ever met Steve Harrigan of Fox news? He's back over there and is one good reporter.