Israeli military says 10 Katyusha rockets land in southern Lebanon

[ECH1969]

Breaking

http://www.cnn.com/

[bbinacan]

1. Just great

WTF is hezbollah thinking?:banghead:

[Fozzledick]

10. Classic Hezbollah strategy

If Israel responds, they scream aggression and atrocity and play the victim.

If not, they proclaim victory and continue the attacks.

If they still can't provoke a response they escalate the provocation, like maybe kidnapping some soldiers.

[bbinacan]

31. True that. n/t

[David__77]

33. Israel's the invader, not the Lebanese fighters.

Why shouldn't the Israeli troops, who should be immediately withdrawing from Lebanese soil, be legitimate targets?

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[Spazito]

3. This will be interesting...

Hezbollah will deny firing rockets into Lebanon and Israel will deny the IDF fired rockets into Lebanon. One has to ask who benefits by this act?

[Opusnone]

8. Si. Cui bono?

[uppityperson]

13. indeed, who benefits?

[eccles12]

4. Has anyone but Israel seen these rockets launched?

Hitherto, journalists and other folks have always been able to see these rockets launched. This is very suspicious to me. Any other reports besides from the IDF?

[mom cat]

6. Damned good question. Welcome to DU eccles 12

:hi:

[Pavulon]

9. Every nation

with early warning satellites for thermal spikes, space based radar, or someone with visual coverage from space.

[Solo_in_MD]

11. What proof would be condsidered adequate?

- Fire finder radar traces?
- The fragmented rounds themselves?
- The launchers with the bodies of the crew drapped over them?
Short of the latter, I am not sure what would be considered adequate.


Hitherto, journalists and other folks have always been able to see these rockets launched.
Bullshit...the vast majority of launches and landings have not been witnessed by journalists. There have been 1000s of launches by all accounts.

My point is that this is unprovable to anyones satisfaction.

[LostinVA]

12. I was wondering that, too

UN or formalists?

[stepnw1f]

14. You May Be On to Something There

Does seem a bit stupid to do with the World watching.

[Pavulon]

15. So was the 83 bombing

these guys are assholes. The french lit them up last time. Bombed the Iranian guard after their people were attacked.

The french are not to be trifled with. They may have a reputation but they have advanced weaponry and infantry and are willing to use them.

[stepnw1f]

19. Who IDF?

I'd have to agree.

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[uppityperson]

26. Who is backing Hezbullah now?

Who is saying they support anyone attacking the UN? What are you getting riled up about?

[Pavulon]

28. No one, at least no one with any grip on reality

I just think it is funny to hear people put the french down with zero memory of the past.

I am sure the french remember Third Company of the Sixth French Parachute Infantry Regiment.

[jrd200x]

20. OMG, I MUST see a link! I must see a link!

Where are all the insistent link screamers?

[uppityperson]

22. link here, hour is up for clock watchers. NOT Katyushas!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/14/mideast.main/index.html

...About 10 rockets were fired inside southern Lebanon late Monday, the Israeli military said early Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces initially said the weapons were Katyushas -- which are commonly used by Hezbollah -- but have since stepped back from that.

The rockets landed inside Lebanese territory, and Israeli forces will not respond to their firing, a military spokesman said.

Earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the cease-fire agreement -- which went into effect at 8 a.m. local time (1 a.m. ET) -- "appears to be generally holding."

That was despite four clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters....

[Spazito]

25. Hmmm, not Katushas, makes this even more interesting...

if not Katushas then what? Where in Lebanon did they land, from where were they fired? Still a great lack of actual info, unfortunately.

[Scurrilous]

27. Mortars?

Mortar fire in south Lebanon

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3291346,00.html

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"The ceasefire agreement that went into effect at 8 a.m. Monday was breached early Tuesday when Hizbullah terrorists fired four mortar shells were toward south Lebanon. No injuries were reported in the incident.

The IDF confirmed the report.

IDF forces are still operating inside Lebanese territory, and the mortar fire may have been aimed at them.

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly threatened in his recent speeches that the fighting will rage on as long as IDF soldiers remain on Lebanese soil."

[Spazito]

29. Sorry but Ynet doesn't cut it for me, I will wait for a more mainstream,

credible source. Ynet seems to "speak with one voice" along with the IDF/Israeli government not unlike Fox news in the US.

They may well have been mortars, we will have to wait and see as well as who, indeed, fired them.

[Monkeyman]

5. ceasefire what ceasefire here we go again

[Opusnone]

7. Brought to you by the American propaganda arm of the IDF: CNN

I haven't seen so much spinning and disinformation on a story in my life.

CNN almost had me back as a viewer with Cafferty and AC, but Wolfie just makes me want to puke.
He's as one-dimensional as they come.

[azurnoir]

16. I did not know Hezbollah

was firing on Lebanon, guess it was not important enough to report before now.

[uppityperson]

18. IS Hezbullah firing on Lebanon? Who fired these, if they were fired @all?

[LostinVA]

24. They haven't been n/t

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[HeeBGBz]

21. Hmmm, short ceasefire.

And who's rockets were they

[Andrushka]

30. They landed within Lebanon (as someone pointed out above)

...and let's go back a few days to what Nasrallah said:

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday that Hezbollah would abide by the resolution but had a "natural right" to confront Israeli forces "as long as there is Israeli military movement, Israeli field aggression and Israeli soldiers occupying our land".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4788523.stm

[Warren Stupidity]

32. Which by the way approximately mirrors the IDF stated position

on how it interprets the ceasefire. I haven't seen the denunciation of IDF as terrorist scum for its continued military operations since the ceasefire officially started.

There might be a real end to the hostilities when the IDF withdraws from the sovereign state of Lebanon.