Israeli Incursion Employs High-Tech Power to Lethal Effect

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By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 8, 2004;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16184-2004Oct7?language=printer


>>JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip, Oct. 7 -- By day, the streets of this densely populated Palestinian labyrinth are jammed with seething funeral processions and solemn mourning tents. But gradually, long before dusk, the camp is transformed into a ghost town, with civilians cowering in their apartments and masked gunmen darting through the shadows carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and homemade bombs.

>>On Thursday evening, the boom of Israeli Merkava tank cannons and the staccato crackle of heavy-caliber machine-gun fire ricocheted through the concrete alleyways, heralding the 10th night of Israel's most lethal incursion into the Palestinian territories in nearly 2 1/2 years.

>>Ninety-four Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed, according to statistics provided by each side in the conflict, since Israeli forces entered the northern Gaza Strip in an operation aimed at preventing Palestinian guerrillas from firing rockets and mortars at Jewish settlements and Israeli towns over the border. The fighting has pitted a sophisticated, high-tech military force against guerrillas using assault rifles, grenade launchers and weapons crafted from common explosives, construction site scraps and party balloons.<<

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1. kick

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[venus]

2. More of my high-tech tax dollars at work.... n/t