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| Robert Fisk: Hizbollah's response reveals months of planning |
| 2006-07-16 |
| I'm not paying to read his ??? but this is a reprint of a commenter at From Beirut to the Beltway. In his piece he says that Hizbollah actually managed to attack Israel's Northern command - something I haven't seen elsewhere. The online article is unfortunately subscription only and I'm too lazy to type it all out from my print copy, but the relevant section: "The long-range Iranian made missiles which later exploded on Haifa had been preceded only a few weeks ago by a pilotless Hizbollah drone aircraft which surveyed northern Israel and then returned to land in eastern Lebanon after taking photographs during its flight. "These pictures not only suggested a flight path for Hizbollah's rocket attacks to Haifa; they also identified Israel's top secret military air traffic control centre in Miron. "The next attack - concealed by Israel's censors - was directed at this facility. Code named "Apollo", Israeli military scientists work deep inside mountain caves and bunkers at Miron, watching all air traffic moving in and out of Beirut, Damascus, Amman and other cities. The mountain is surrounded by clusters of antennae which Hizbollah quickly identified as a military tracking centre. Before they fired rockets at Haifa, they therefore sent a cluster of missiles towards Miron. The caves are untouchable but the targeting of such a secret location by Hizbollah deeply shocked Israel's military planners. "The 'centre of the war on terror' - or whatever they imagine Lebanon to be - could not only breach their frontier and capture their soldiers but attack the nerve centre of the Israeli northern military command" ... |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #2 And generations of first cousin marriages. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-07-16 20:53 |
| #1 Oppsss -- thanks mods -- wasn't paying attention! |
| Posted by: Sherry 2006-07-16 15:12 |