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| IDF strikes Beirut-Damascus road | |
| 2006-07-13 | |
| The IDF struck on Thursday the Beirut-Damascus road. The road served as the main access between Lebanon and Syria, along which people and weapons were transferred into Lebanon. Security officials said that contributed to the siege that the IDF was laying on Lebanon by air, sea and ground, Army Radio reported. Earlier, Israeli warplanes blasted runways at the two main army air bases in eastern and northern Lebanon near Syria's border on Thursday, police said, attacks that could draw the Lebanese army into Israel's war with Hizbullah guerrillas. Israeli jets dropped two bombs on the runway at the Rayak air base in the eastern Beka'a Valley, damaging it, police said. There were no reports of casualties or damage to aircraft.
Planes later attacked the Qoleiat air base near the Syrian border in the north with four missiles, police said. The strikes on the country's two air bases virtually neutralize Lebanon's air force. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #18 Hitting the runways keeps Hizbullah from flying the two Israeli prisoners to Iran and keeps Iran from flying in any more rockets and gunnies. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-07-13 16:46 |
| #17 runway denial munitions.. awesome Been sittin here all day and I didn't see a thing. Nope, wuddnt us. Couldn't be, my paint's still dryin. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-07-13 16:06 |
| #16 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. |
| Posted by: Dylan 2006-07-13 15:47 |
| #15 Is there a video of the US armored column cutting the main Baghdad-Basra highgway ? Reports at the time mentioned amazed Iraqis getting out of their cars to watch the tank force heading to Baghdad. Iraqi radio was still claiming that no US forces were present in the country. |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-13 15:31 |
| #14 This is a link to some of his famous quotes..and the photo is a screen grab from that scene...over his right shoulder and out of camera range.... are the American tanks.. |
| Posted by: Chenter Unimp7361 2006-07-13 15:22 |
| #13 The only way the video with the tank in the background could have been better would have been if a couple marines were in the shot waving at the camera doin' the Hi Mom! thing. |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-07-13 15:17 |
| #12 Anyone have a link to that footage online, or to a still with the tank showing? |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-07-13 14:51 |
| #11 ALL TIME great video is Baghdad Bob saying "The Americans are not within 100 miles of Baghdad" as an M1 tank rolls by in the background! Priceless. I loved that moment...the tanks were chasing Iraqi troops down the riverbank if I recall correctly....priceless moment. |
| Posted by: Chenter Unimp7361 2006-07-13 14:22 |
| #10 Something tells me my boss is gonna have to change his vacation plans. He was planning 3 weeks in Lebanon visiting family starting tomorrow. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2006-07-13 14:18 |
| #9 TV foorage had the runways of the Lebanese airport being hit with runway denial munitions.. awesome |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-13 14:14 |
| #8 St. Paul knows about the road to Damascus. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-07-13 14:10 |
| #7 Damascus Dave Uhhh... I hate to bother you, but could you PLEASE pick a different one? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-07-13 14:08 |
| #6 I wonder if Syria has a variation of "Baghdad Bob" (whom I always I kinda liked!) [scene] Damascus Dave: "Our brave Syrian airforce has swept the Zionist pigs from the air." [on cue Israeli jets streak overhead and destroy Assad's palace] p.s. ALL TIME great video is Baghdad Bob saying "The Americans are not within 100 miles of Baghdad" as an M1 tank rolls by in the background! Priceless. |
| Posted by: Justrand 2006-07-13 14:06 |
| #5 Syria's got to be running their AD radars all over the place looking to see if Israel is going to hit them. The longer this goes on the better the target map Israel gets to draw up on the Syria AAD network. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2006-07-13 14:02 |
| #4 I just hope that U.S. soldiers are blocking the Terrorist from running to Syria from Iraq. Can kill a bunch of them as they run to the light. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-07-13 13:55 |
| #3 I got a funny feeling Syria going to get a smacked hard. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-07-13 13:49 |
| #2 Anybody see the vaunted Syrian Air Force anywhere? |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-07-13 13:47 |
| #1 Is it just me, or are these strikes slowly rolling towards Syria? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-07-13 13:40 |