Lebanese Army Pounds Militants' Hideout

3 More Lebanese Soldiers Killed In Offensive Against Al Qaeda-Inspired Militants

(CBS/AP)  Lebanon's army suffered additional casualties Saturday as it pressed ahead with an offensive to uproot al Qaeda-inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods.

Three more soldiers were killed and five wounded Saturday, military officials said, leaving the army with five dead and 15 wounded since the offensive began Friday.

The Lebanese air force joined tanks and artillery in pounding Islamic militant hideouts on the second day of an intensifying offensive. A French-made Gazelle helicopter fired two missiles and directed machine gun fire at suspected militant hideouts on the western edge of the Noah el-Bared camp near the Mediterranean coastline, in an apparent attempt to block any sea escape route.

It was the first time the army used its limited air force capability in the battle, signifying the intensity of the ground fighting. The army has helicopters, but no fixed wing aircraft.

Lebanese security officials said dozens of militants from the Fatah Islam group had been killed or wounded in the fighting since Friday, but the figure could not be independently verified, and a senior militant commander said only two fighters had been wounded since the fighting began.

Abu Hureira, deputy leader of Fatah Islam, conceded his fighters abandoned some positions in the northern end of the Nahr el-Bared camp in a "tactical" withdrawal. But he denied the army was advancing and vowed never to surrender, as the army again demanded Saturday.

"Morale was high. Let them come. We are ready," he said of the army, denying media reports that he and the leader, Shaker Youssef al-Absi were wounded. With the sound of firing clearly heard as he spoke, Abu Hureira said he was on the front line fighting off the army attack and al-Absi was safe in rear positions.

The army deaths raised to 37 the number of soldiers killed since fighting between the army and militants began on May 20. At least 20 civilians and about 60 militants had also been killed in the fighting before Friday's offensive. Civilian casualties could not be determined in the latest fighting since relief organizations were not allowed inside the camp.

But an official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of the major Palestinian guerrilla factions which had stayed on the sidelines, said 17 people had been wounded in the camp and some 400 houses destroyed in the army shelling.

Many of the camp's roughly 40,000 Palestinian refugees have fled, but thousands are still thought to be caught in the cross-fire, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.

White smoke billowed from the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon Saturday as the thud of artillery, mixed with machine gun and automatic rifle fire, rang out in the morning. A black plume of smoke rose at midmorning, but it was not clear what was burning. A lull prevailed during the night after heavy battles Friday, with the army firing flares to monitor militants' movements and sporadically exchanging fire with the gunmen.

But the renewed bombardment in the morning signaled the army's continued push against the militants. The offensive, which began Friday, was the heaviest fighting since violence broke out between the military and Fatah Islam militants nearly two weeks ago.

The situation on the ground could not be independently verified. Journalists were pushed far away from the military zone, and media reports were conflicting on the military's achievements the previous day.

The military announced Friday it responded to militants' fire by seizing positions on the outer ring of the camp that Fatah Islam had used to attack the army. But the heavy pounding and rush of armor into the camp indicated the military was determined to squeeze the militants, who retreated into the narrow, winding streets and apartment buildings inside the camp.

Security officials said Saturday that military units continued "mop up of pockets" of resistance on the outskirts of the camp and its perimeter. The officials said the organizational skeleton of the group had been destroyed and that some fighters had sought refuge inside the camp.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said Nahr el-Bared and its surrounding areas were divided into three zones, one under the effective control of the army, one held by the militants and a third zone controlled by civilians and Palestinian guerrilla factions refusing refuge to the militants.

[bluestardad]

I would love to see the AIPAC powered SUPPORT ISRAEL dead-brains address this analysis:

"Gen. William Odom discusses the %u201Cworst strategic disaster in American history,%u201D the war in Iraq: the view of most generals that the war is wrong, the failure of the politicians to see the consequences of their actions, the centrality of the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby in pushing for the Iraq invasion, the %u201Csurge,%u201D

www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/10/gen-william-odom


Iraq war supporters are under the influence of AIPAC. AN ISRAELI POLITICAL LOBBY GROUP!

HERE ARE SOME OF AIPAC DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTERS! CONTACT THEM!

Levin, Carl- (D - MI)
269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
[phone]
Web Form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Steny Hoyer
http://hoyer.house.gov/contact/


READ AIPAC BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN POLITICIANS!

http://www.aipac.org/for
ms/join_aipacClubs.htm

REMEMBER THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE IS RUN BY PRO ISRAELI GROUP! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO CAME UP WITH THIS SURGE IDEA!

EVEN AS AMERICAN MILITARY AID LANDS IN LEBANON, President Bush is funding Al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/ar
ticles/070305fa_fact_hersh

50 years of American involvement in the Middle East ENOUGH it has nothing worth one more American Life!

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STANDS IN NEW YORK HARBOR AND IS NOT KNEELING IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

[usa1881]

Feeljihadi,

Kindly take your Hizbullah propaganda film and shove so far up your anal cavity that you might see the light of your lies and hate. Better yet, it might knock some brains into you.

Facts? Yeah, I'll give you facts. Hizbullah should have been disarmed in 1990 along with the Lebanese Forces. But Assad, like you, hated Christians and wanted a proxy army to serve both him and Iran. So, those who kidnapped and murdered Americans in the service of Iran and Syria were kept armed and alive.

They initiated the fighting - Israel, under the stupid Barak, abandoned the South Lebanese Army and left Lebanon in 2000. Result? Not peace but Katuysha rocketings, kidnappings, and murder on the part of your boyfriends. Last year's fighting came as a result of the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers - because Israel is led by weak cowards these days, Hizbullah was unfortunately NOT destroyed. It would have been better for Lebanon had Blomert completed the job.

Maybe Bibi will do it - the long suffering Christians and Druze of Lebanon - the true patriots - will appreciate it greatly. Meanwhile at least one group of Islamonazis are being grounded up. Too bad, Jihadiboy.

[feelfree1]

There is an excellent documentary available for online viewing, which documents some of the atrocities carried out by the Israelis against the people of Lebanon last summer.

The film was shot in the midst of the war, and provides information surrounding Israeli war crimes such as widespread civilian infrastructure destruction, and environmental damage, the killing of the 4 U.N. civilian observers, massive cluster bomb saturation of civilian areas, the deliberate slaughter of civilians in Qana, attacks on ambulances carrying civilian victims from earlier Israeli bombings, and much more.

This film is hair raising and heart breaking.

The URL for this film, 'The Fog of War' is:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpB1x5Qzyg

[rhs648]

Corrected

The Muslim religion preaches Jihad and world domination by the Muslims. You can sugarcoat this anyway you want. The enemy (extremists) use men, women, and children as shields. They hide in apartment buildings, hospitals and mosques. Further, they blow-up their own people. Yes, get them wherever and whenever we can before they destroy us.

[rhs648]

The Muslim religion preaches Jihad and world domination by the Muslims. You can sugarcoat this anyway you want. The enemy (extremists) use men, women, and children as shields. They hide in apartment buildings, hospitals ans mosques. Further, they blow-up their own people. Yes, get them wherever and whenever we can before they destroy us.

[bluestardad]

SO WHICH SIDE IS BUSH SENDING MONEY TO NOW?

[hermit22]

let's all save our nickels and visit lebanon.

lebanon is a jewel in the east. you can ski the mountain in the morning, hike by the age old cedars, enjoy the gorgeous flowers, pick a sweet smelling gardenia for your jacket and go swimming later, all in the same day.

oops, the little jewel is in trouble.

people that know value, know to protect a jewel.

[ptruth2]

lars008, you know history. The problem with most people is that their opinions are not based on facts. Mohamed was a murderer who killed thousnads who refused to convert to Islam. As you point out, the Crusades were not an attack on Islam. The Crusades were a response to the Islamists attack on Jerusalem. After all, if the Crusades was a war to take back Jerusalem, it means that the Islamists took it - and it wasn't theirs to take!! But, that's the way they operate - kill, maim, torture. All they want to do is destroy all of God's wonderful gifts of life, art, laughter education, tolerance and understanding. Now, where are the Imans? Why aren't they condemining this latest plot? Are they too busy crying over this failure, and planning another heinous attack?

[usa1881]

Feeljihadi just hates Jews. That's his Nazi problem.

All he did yesterday was rant about Israeli war crimes. As if his oh-so-innocent friends never kidnapped, never killed, never tortured, never flew airplanes with innocent people into the Twin Towers.

He will apologize for anyone, even Osama - just as long as it gives him a chance to bash Jews.

Or Americans.

A Nazi. Period. End of story. Pay the roach no mind.

[lars008-2009]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
December 8, 1941/September 12, 2001
The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.

[lars008-2009]

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do

[lars008-2009]

fascist nazi islam will not allow any non muslim to sit out their fascist nazi islamic muslim global jihad...

the future of the non muslim world under islam....

But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).

http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm

this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....

are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???

apartheid fascist nazi islamic style

Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm

[lars008-2009]

NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!!!

WHY IS IT NOT ONE ISLAMIC MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???

FASCIST NAZI ISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.

http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/

But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).

http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm

this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....

are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???

apartheid fascist nazi islamic style

Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm

[luigi999-2009]

Yeah, pound 'em! Time to bulldoze all those troublemaking camps! It's the only way to get these people off of welfare and into the workforce.

[lars008-2009]

FASCIST NAZI ISLAM TO ENSLAVE NON MUSLIM WORLD

HAMAS MICKEY MOUSE SAYS
Islamic rule will benefit Christians and Jews
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 14, 2007
The force behind Hamas TV%u2019s controversial Mickey Mouse clone said today that his children%u2019s television program will continue to promote worldwide Islamic supremacy, for everyone's benefit, including Christians and Jews.

In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D

Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg

[prelgovisk]

Dear Abu Hureira,

Thank you for your invitation to let us come. Please send us directions to your home.

Is there anything we can bring to the party?

Thanks,

Mr Cruise Missile.

PS. I heard you are looking for a new place to live. I heard also that about 6 Arab nations expelled the Jews from their lands at the same time your housing problem began. If they are truly your friends, I am sure they will let you have those properties, if you behave yourself and don't invite unwelcome guests or have loud parties and such.

Happy house hunting!

[lars008-2009]

what do you call an organization that:

kills you if you don't join it...

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=82201&ln=eng&txt=islam%20law%20kill%20kaafir

kills you if you leave it...

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=696&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

kills you if you don't do what they tell you to do..

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=6035&ln=eng&txt=kaafir%20kill

kills you if you speak against it%u2026.

http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng

kills anybody that is not a member of it...

http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html

still practices pagan rituals...

http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm

allows the r a p e of babies and animals...

http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445

a. satanic cult???
b. islam???
c. all the above???

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

[radiob-2009]

The flip side of the story


Sderot takes 310 Qassam missiles from Gaza 16 days in a row as cabinet decides to stick to current military tactics

May 30, 2007, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)

The sixth Qassam missile Wednesday knocked out the electric current in Sderot. The third demolished an apartment ten minutes after its owners went out.

Thousands have fled the daily barrage battering the town of 23,000. The effectiveness of air raids against Hamas operatives running the missile campaign is diminishing. Yet the Olmert government refuses to authorize a substantial ground action which is demanded by the IDF command to root out the menace which is destroying Sderot and traumatizing is citizens.

[feelfree1]

Related:

"Thousands of Palestinians have escaped with only their clothes on the back. Hundreds of families have been torn apart as they ran for their lives once again in their eventful history."

"The fact that most of these families are the survivors of the 1982 Invasion by Israel and the subsequent Sabra and Shatila massacres by Ariel Sharon%u2019s goons only underscores the never-ending tragedy that is the Palestinian existence. How long will the Palestinians have to pay for the crimes that they have not committed?"

"After all, it was Israel and its powerful friends in the US establishment who played a key role in persuading Bush to invade Iraq by portraying it as a %u2018threat%u2019 to God%u2019s own country.

"Again, if the US goes after Iran tomorrow, it will be because of Israel. The Islamist Iran has cleverly been built into a %u2018clear and present danger%u2019 to the state of Israel."

www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2007/June/opinion_June8.xml&section=opinion&col=

[lars008-2009]

the war muhammad started rages on 1400 years later...
623 - Battle of Waddan
623 - Battle of Safwan
623 - Battle of Dul-'Ashir
624 - Muhammad and converts begin raids on caravans to fund the movement.
624 - Zakat becomes mandatory
624 - Battle of Badr
624 - Battle of Bani Salim
624 - Battle of Eid-ul-Fitr and Zakat-ul-Fitr
624 - Battle of Bani Qainuqa'
624 - Battle of Sawiq
624 - Battle of Ghatfan
624 - Battle of Bahran
625 - Battle of Uhud. 70 Muslims are killed.
625 - Battle of Humra-ul-Asad
625 - Battle of Banu Nudair
625 - Battle of Dhatur-Riqa
626 - Battle of Badru-Ukhra
626 - Battle of Dumatul-Jandal
626 - Battle of Banu Mustalaq Nikah
627 - Battle of the Trench
627 - Battle of Ahzab
627 - Battle of Bani Quraiza
627 - Battle of Bani Lahyan
627 - Battle of Ghaiba
627 - Battle of Khaibar
628 - Muhammad signs treaty with Quraish.
630 - Muhammad conquers Mecca.
630 - Battle of Hunsin.
630 - Battle of Tabuk
632 - Muhammad dies.
http://www.carm.org/islam/islam_c
hronology.htm