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| 2006-07-13 | |||||
Israel has information that Hizbullah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers are trying to transfer them to Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
The IDF released the names of the two soldiers on Thursday. According to the IDF Spokesperson, the two reserve are Ehud Goldwasser, 31, from Nahariya, and Eldad Regev, 26, from Kiryat Motzkin. Hizbullah guerrillas, who are backed by Iran, seized the soldiers Wednesday in a cross-border raid. OC Northern Command Lt.-Gen. Udi Adam said Thursday evening that the army has hit hundreds of targets in Lebanon since Wednesday night. Adam added that Israel has not ruled out sending ground forces into Lebanon. He told reporters that even Northern Command had come under Katyusha fire during the day. "I imagine over time that we will be able to rid ourselves of this threat entirely," he said.
Earlier in the day, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz confirmed Thursday that the soldiers who had been kidnapped by Hizbullah a day before were still alive. "We know the soldiers are alive and we hold the Lebanese government completey responsible," he said during a tour of the North. Israel was not at war with Lebanon but at a "high volume crisis," he added. He said that a new reality has been created on the northern border that started yesterday with the deaths of eight soldiers. The focus of the operation in Lebanon would be to restore Israel's deterrent capability against those in Lebanon, referring to Hizbullah, who thought the IDF was irrelevant, he explained. "The goal is to create a new reality in the north," Halutz told reporters, "Such attacks will not be tolerated."
Halutz said the north was well protected by shelters but he could not guarantee that Israeli civilians would not be harmed during the current campaign in Lebanon. He also revealed that OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam had set up an investigative committee into Wednesday's kidnapping, which would be headed by a major general. Iran denies role in alleged Israeli soldier transfer Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday denied any involvement in an alleged plan to transfer into Iran two Israeli soldiers who were captured by Lebanese Hezbollah militants. "We categorically deny" Israeli information on an alleged plan to transfer into Iran the two soldiers who were snatched on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokeman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 I took a quick gander at the IRNA site. The Iranian midget seems a bit reticent at the moment. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-07-13 16:02 |
| #6 F**khead in Iran thought stirring shit all around Israel would be a great diversion and take heat off for his refusal to do anything. But , if he's stupid enough (I have great confidence in his judgement) to move these Israeli soldiers to Iran, this really opens the door wide for us. Who's to say whose munitions just fell out of the sky and blew the living shit out of Iran ? I would say it was merely an act by Allan, who was responding to extreme stupidity in conduct of war. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-07-13 15:45 |
| #5 Iran is doing the same shit it did under Carter. Have a 'proxy' take hostages. Then it was the 'students' and today its Hizbullah / Hamas. Unfortunately for them Carter isn't the head of Israel. I would hope that we would 'check' Iran from doing anything to support Syria / Lebannon while Israel takes care of business. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-13 14:51 |
| #4 Israel should immediately counter-kidnap several high ranking buddies of the Iranian president, and also several top mullahs from their mullah bloc. They should deny any knowledge of the kidnappings, and even if their soldiers are released, don't release all of the Iranians. If they hold them more than 72 hours, their intel guys should reprogram them. "The Jerusalem Candidate." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-13 13:59 |
| #3 How do they plan on getting them there? Plane? Train? Automobile? There seems to ba a roadblock in place. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-07-13 13:48 |
| #2 This recalls a discussion I was having with a liberal about 2 years ago. He insisted that Hezballah was an indigenous Lebanese Shi'ite movement with no ties to Iran. Liberals are so stupid. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-07-13 13:32 |
| #1 If they end up in Iran it will be seen as an act of war as far as Isreal is concerned. Iran will have entered the fray nad will give Isreal the right to take out Iran. Or at least the nucs. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2006-07-13 13:22 |