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American smart bombs to be delivered to Israel through Qatar

by IMEMC (reposted)
American smart bombs are going to be delivered to Israel through Qatar, according to an article published today by the London based newspaper The Middle East.
The article stated that the American smart bombs, which Washington decided to send to Israel, will be shipped to Israel from Al-Adeed military base in Qatar. Israeli informal sources and the New York Times reported that Washington sped up the date of delivery of these bombs.

American smart bombs can reach 30-40 meters deep in the ground, and are designed to bomb underground shelters and military bases. Israeli sources also said that Israel will have 100 of those bombs, and will use them to bomb Hezbollah underground forces. The bombs will also be used to assassinate Hezbollah general leaders, including Hezbollah secretary general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, in which, if successful, Israel will consider the conflict over.

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§Israel to get U.S. "bunker buster" bombs - report
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States will soon provide Israel with some 100 "bunker buster" bombs to kill the leader of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group and destroy its trenches, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Monday.

Quoting unidentified informed sources in both Washington and Tel Aviv, the Saudi-owned Arabic daily said the bombs, which can penetrate up to 40 metres under ground, would be shipped to Israel from a U.S. military base in Qatar.

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by kicking butt
NICOSIA - Iranian analysts and officials said Hizbullah has performed beyond
expectations in its military campaign. Despite massive Israeli air strikes,
Hizbullah maintained rocket fire that struck virtually every major community
and military base in northern Israel.

"I think that Hizbullah, by undertaking this heroic attack, has confused and
embarrassed Israel," said Mohammad Shariati, a former adviser to the Iranian
president. "It also caused some disorder in the Israeli military plans for
the entire area."

On July 18, the London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat daily reported that Iran sent
its foreign minister to Syria after a European country alerted Teheran that
Israel intended to assassinate Hizbullah leaders. The newspaper said Iranian
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged Hizbullah to reduce rocket fire
and consider a release of two Israeli soldiers captured by the
Iranian-sponsored Shi'ite militia on July 12.

The analysts acknowledged that Hizbullah has been aided by the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps in both tactics and strategy. IRGC has been
helping Hizbullah operate such weapons as the Faj -3, Fajr-4 and Zelzal-1
rockets as well as the Chinese-origin C-802 cruise missiles. Since July 12,
Hizbullah fired about 1,500 rockets and missiles into Israel.

"The towns you have built in northern Palestine [Israel] are within the
range of the brave Lebanese children," Iranian parliamentary speaker Gholam
Ali Haddad Adel told an anti-Israeli rally in Teheran on July 18. "No part
of Israel will be safe."

Hizbullah has also been responsible for tactical decisions, including force
protection, target selection and rocket fire. During the past five years
Hizbullah gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Israel's military
that enhanced current rocket strikes from Lebanon.

An Iranian military source told the London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat that the
IRGC established Hizbullah missile units and trained more than 3,000
Hizbullah fighters. The source said the training included launching rockets
and missiles and operating aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and
speedboats.

The IRGC established 20 permanent rocket facilities as well as numerous
additional mobile launch sites for Hizbullah, the source said. He said the
IRGC also trained 50 Hizbullah pilots since 2003.

Teheran has supplied Hizbullah with most of the tactical rockets produced by
Iran. A-Sharq Al Awsat, in an analysis written by Ali Nouri Zadeh, said that
in 2005 Hizbullah received its first shipment of 333-mm rockets, C-802
cruise missiles and SA-7 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.

The Iranian source said Hizbullah has deployed four models of medium-range
rockets. They included the Fajr, with a range of 100 kilometers; the
Iran-130, with a range of up to 110 kilometers; the Shaheen, with a range of
150 kilometers; and an unidentified 335-mm rocket with a range of 150
kilometers.
by more on Hizzbolah
Hezbollah differs from the other terrorist organizations given to its top-rated intelligence network. With over 15,000 operatives dispersed worldwide, an annual operating budget in excess of $200 million ($100 million from Iran alone), and functioning cells in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia, South America, Central America and Africa, the organization poses a tremendous threat to all of us. Unlike Al Qaeda, Hezbollah has been training for decades to do us grievous harm.
Israel differs from Hizzbollah, in that they are a wealthy terrorist organization--a state--that has enjoyed billions EACH year in cash and miliatary welfare from the U.S.--no wonder they are using all their subsidized toys to wreak havoc, death and destruction...
by Tim
The English language is taking an assault by the Pentagon Jargonizing it. In reality there is no smart bombs anywhere on the earth. They are lying to the world even in the composition of the language. We need simpler truths than six overkill of the planets livability is called "security". Destroying the social and ecological balances, in fact causes insecurity all around. Security is achieved by working for a living , not lying to the people through the language, and thusly destroying the possibity of working for a living because of bombing Lebanon. Two wrongs never made a right. Israel stop the war crimes of aggression against the civilians of Lebanon and gaza , palestine. The anti-fascist Geneva Conventions (1949) forbid the war crimes of 1) targeting of civilians, 2) torturing prisoners of war, 3) collective punishment, such as invading illegally and punishing Palestine and Lebanon. End the occupation of Palestine and Lebanon. It is illegal to invade and occupy those countries. United Nations Charter.
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