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| Syria-Lebanon |
| Hezbollah fires at Israeli fighters over Southern Lebanon |
| 2003-05-14 |
| Jpost - reg req'd Israeli warplanes flew over southern Lebanon on Wednesday, drawing fire from militant Hezbollah guerrillas, Lebanese security officials said. Hezbollah fired anti-aircraft guns at two Israeli fighters that flew over the western sector of south Lebanon but they missed, the officials said. and the AA locations were noted on Israeli bombing GPS maps The Hezbollah group said its air defense unit had shot at "Israeli enemy warplanes which violated Lebanese sovereignty," according to a statement issued in Beirut. LOL - Hezbollah - which is a Syrian/Iranian creation, defending the purity of Lebanon's Sovereignty? Irony overload In Jerusalem, Israeli military officials said Hezbollah had fired anti-aircraft shells at "the western sector of the Israeli-Lebanese border," but declined to comment on the alleged flights by Israeli jets. "No injuries were reported," an Israeli army spokesman said. Since Israel withdrew its troops from south Lebanon three years ago, Israeli military aircraft have routinely flown over Lebanon on apparent reconnaissance missions, sometimes breaking the sound barrier and drawing fire from the Lebanese army and Hezbollah. The Lebanese government and the United Nations say the flights are violations of Lebanese territory. Awww Shaddup! Hezbollah, which led a guerrilla war against Israel's 18-year occupation of a border zone in southern Lebanon that ended in May 2000, is on the US State Department list of terrorist organizations. And supplied from Tehran and Damascus Lebanon regards Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, as a legitimate movement fighting against Israel's occupation of a small parcel of land on the south Lebanon border. Shebaa Farms is an excuse for the Hez to continue to fire katyushas into Israel and occupy portions of Lebanon, if Lebanon wanted to complain, they couldn't |
| Posted by:Frank G |