Israeli strikes flatten Lebanese villages

[tocqueville]

By NASSER NASSER, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago

TYRE, Lebanon - An entire neighborhood of a southern Lebanese village is no more: All 15 houses were destroyed Wednesday in an airstrike by Israelis apparently determined to stop Hezbollah's frequent rocket fire from this region.

Down the road, residents fled north on treacherous roads regularly targeted with Israeli bombs. Meanwhile, U.N. peacekeepers in the nearby southern port of Tyre prepared to evacuate their families and other Westerners.

Israel's onslaught, now in its second week, has wreaked its worst damage in the poor farming regions of southern Lebanon. Warplanes have blasted bridges and roads and turned villages into ghost towns as civilians flee, abandoning the area to Hezbollah guerrillas who continue to fire rockets on Israel and engage any ground force that advances from the border 12 miles to the south.

The Tyre region is the heartland of Lebanon's Shiite Muslims. The guerrilla group is less powerful in the city of Tyre, an ancient port with white sandy beaches and Roman ruins where more moderate Shiite factions dominate. But the villages nestled in valleys outside the city are a bastion of support for the Shiite Hezbollah.

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[ShortnFiery]

1. More good work Israeli Govt - Winning the hearts and minds of common folk!

:nuke: :cry: :grr:

[ladjf]

2. OK, here's a wild theory for you: The Hezbollah rockets , which

are nothing more than rocket propelled mortars, could easily be hidden either by foliage or placed slightly below ground and fired either by timers or by remote control from many miles away. Even with low tech equipment, there is no good reason for the shooters to sit there with their fingers on the fire buttons.

This probably isn't the real case. But, they should have thought of it.

[tocqueville]

3. Your guess is absolutely right

and what more all moving trucks are now bombed in Lebanon. But the rockets are transported by donkeys. I heard a report about that from a Lebanese on French TV. So trucks carrying medicine and food or other necessities are blown away...

[Kagemusha]

4. It's done in Iraq all the time.

I'm not sure what these particular guys do though. And who's to say they haven't upgraded their techniques.

[Laotra]

5. Having fought

20 years guerilla war and relatively succesfully, I don't think it is a wild guess that they know the tricks of their trade pretty well.

[Just Me]

6. I believe PNAC/LIKUD is levelling the place to complete their plan,...

,...for their world war. I really do. They are strategically surrounding the rest of the M.E. to ultimately take over.

We'll see.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I'm reminded of Slobodan Milosevic.

He made excuses about defending himself from KLA "terrorists."