Posted on 08/04/2006 10:23:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
An Israeli soldier grieves for Sgt. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, killed in action in southern Lebanon, during his funeral at the Petah Tikvah cemetery in central Israel. Israeli warplanes pounded areas north and south of Lebanon, killing at least 38 people, as Israel's largest city Tel Aviv braced for a rain of retaliatory Hezbollah rocket fire.
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Reuters News:
NO LET UP IN LEBANON WAR
"BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli troops fought gun battles with Hizbollah in south Lebanon and warplanes hit roads and bridges across the country on Sunday, hours after the U.N. Security Council received a draft resolution to end the war."
""Unfortunately, it lacked, for instance, a call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces which are now in Lebanon. That is a recipe for more confrontation," he said."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-06T031426Z_01_L05688729_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-2
Stoker forcast blood sucking Democrats.
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LOL!!! Good one - made me smile first time today.
:) It's a mightly fine club to be in
Your time to make me smile... I need one too.
07:12 Lebanese security sources: 5 people killed in IAF strike in village of Ansar (Reuters)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html
Updates from Tayyar
Machine Translated:
06.10 : raid on the hills triangle sign dead in the ranks of the Popular Front-General Command
06.05 : Israeli raids on the road Taria-agreed-eyes Alsiman chain Western Mountains Lebanon
05.58 : incursions aimed at all sites Popular Front-General Command in the western and central Bakaein
05.49 : Israeli air raids on positions of the Popular Front-General Command in the Middle Derznon in the Bekaa
05.45 : Israeli air raids on positions of the Popular Front-General Command in the highlands south of Beirut Naima
02.49 : 10 killed and 37 wounded in the twenty-fifth day of the aggression Read
See post #1521 for good news.
Really appreciate that info. Sounds like things are still hopping to me. Maybe there was a slight lull, but I think it's over now.
That is just the one month extension for the current UNIFEL in Lebanon.
Al-Manar TV, The HEZ Propoganda Channel, is back up....
http://www.wa3ad.org/live-manar.html
Time for another 500 pounder right down the chimney.
They are using Sat-Dish eqip trucks, and remote siting of Dishes, all over Central Lebanon...
Israeli's take down a dish, wasting an expensive missle, the hez simply move the truck, and dial into another one...
interesting thread on how U.S. TOW missiles ended up with Hezbollah.....lots of disagreement.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=87958
hmmm...that presents challenges for sure.
OK - this is old, but I still love it and laugh every time I read it. It also reminds me what our guys and the Israeli guys are going thru:
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How to Prepare for a Deployment to Iraq
1. Sleep on a cot in the garage.
2. Replace the garage door with a curtain.
3. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife or girlfriend whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble, "Sorry, wrong cot."
4. Renovate your bathroom. Hang a green plastic sheet down from the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to chest level. Keep four inches of soapy cold water on the floor. Stop cleaning the toilet and pee everywhere but in the toilet itself. Leave two to three sheets of toilet paper. Or for best effect, remove it altogether. For a more realistic deployed bathroom experience, stop using your bathroom and use a neighbor's. Choose a neighbor who lives at least a quarter mile away.
5. When you take showers, wear flip-flops and keep the lights off.
6. Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and dump dirt on your head.
7. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it on "HIGH" for that tactical generator smell.
8. Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch and then show a different one.
9. Leave a lawnmower running in your living room 24 hours a day for proper noise level.
10. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
11. Once a week, blow compressed air up through your chimney making sure the wind carries the soot across and on to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
12. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
13. Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a saltine cracker.
14. Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator. Then serve some kind of meat in an unidentifiable sauce poured over noodles. Do this for every meal.
15. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get to the shower as fast as you can. Simulate there is no hot water by running out into your yard and breaking out the garden hose.
16. Once a month, take every major appliance completely apart and put it back together again.
17. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for five or six hours before drinking.
18. Invite at least 185 people you don't really like because of their strange hygiene habits to come and visit for a couple of months. Exchange clothes with them.
19. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
20. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them.
21. Keep a roll of toilet paper on your night stand and bring it to the bathroom with you. And bring your gun and a flashlight.
22. Go to the bathroom when you just have to pass gas, "just in case." Every time.
23. Announce to your family that they have mail, have them report to you as you stand outside your open garage door after supper and then say, "Sorry, it's for the other Smith."
24. Wash only 15 items of laundry per week. Roll up the semi-wet clean clothes in a ball. Place them in a cloth sack in the corner of the garage where the cat pees. After a week, unroll them and without ironing or removing the mildew, proudly wear them to professional meetings and family gatherings. Pretend you don't know what you look or smell like. Enthusiastically repeat the process for another week.
25. Go to the worst crime-infested place you can find, go heavily armed, wearing a flak jacket and a Kevlar helmet. Set up shop in a tent in a vacant lot. Announce to the residents that you are there to help them.
26. Eat a single M&M every Sunday and convince yourself it's for Malaria.
27. Demand each family member be limited to 10 minutes per week for a morale phone call. Enforce this with your teenage daughter.
28. Shoot a few bullet holes in the walls of your home for proper ambiance.
29. Sandbag the floor of your car to protect from mine blasts and fragmentation.
30. While traveling down roads in your car, stop at each overpass and culvert and inspect them for remotely detonated explosives before proceeding.
31. Fire off 50 cherry bombs simultaneously in your driveway at 3:00 a.m. When startled neighbors appear, tell them all is well, you are just registering mortars. Tell them plastic will make an acceptable substitute for their shattered windows.
32. Drink your milk and sodas warm.
33. Spread gravel throughout your house and yard.
34. Make your children clear their Super Soakers in a clearing barrel you placed outside the front door before they come in.
35. Make your family dig a survivability position with overhead cover in the backyard. Complain that the 4x4s are not 8 inches on center and make them rebuild it.
36. Continuously ask your spouse to allow you to go buy an M-Gator.
37. When your 5-year-old asks for a stick of gum, have him find the exact stick and flavor he wants on the Internet and print out the web page. Type up a Form 9 and staple the web page to the back. Submit the paperwork to your spouse for processing. After two weeks, give your son the gum.
38. Announce to your family that the dog is a vector for disease and shoot it. Throw the dog in a burn pit you dug in your neighbor's back yard.
39. Wait for the coldest/ hottest day of the year and announce to your family that there will be no heat/air conditioning that day so you can perform much needed maintenance on the heater/ air conditioner. Tell them you are doing this so they won't get cold/ hot.
40. Just when you think you're ready to resume a normal life, order yourself to repeat this process for another six months to simulate the next deployment you've been ordered to support.
Bedouin village suffers great disaster
Residents of Arab al-Aramshe find it difficult to comprehend disaster in which mother, her two daughters were killed as Katyusha rocket hit their house yard. One of daughter recently got engaged. 'We can't believe we will not be seeing these three dear and beloved women anymore,' residents say.
Fadia Jamaa, 60, and her two daughters Samira, 33, and Sultana, 31, were sitting in the yard of their house in the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe, near the northern town of Shlomi, when a Katyusha rocket directly hit the yard. The three women were immediately killed.
...continued at link.
07:12 Lebanese security sources: 5 people killed in IAF strike on village of Ansar (Reuters)
07:12 Second IDF reservist killed over weekend named as Dr. Igor Stein (Israel Radio)
That is a good one..
That is a sad story...
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