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IDF blows up massive Hizbullah bunker
Hanan Greenberg
Published: 27.08.06, 21:26
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1. How Did The IDF Not Know?
David ,   Marietta USA   (08.27.06)
Would someone please explain how a complext of that size, so close to an Israeli town, could be built and equipped, and no one knew about it? For heaven's sake, the amount of dirt tunneled out had to be loaded on truck after truck after truck, and then dumped somewhere. Someone had to have seen the concrete mixers coming in. How could this happen? What else is happening today? Heads should roll within the Israeli Intellegence community. This is beyond the pale of being outrageous!
2. THIS IS OBIOUSLY SHOWING HEZ. IS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE...
KEITH ,   NY,USA   (08.27.06)
it si a matter of time when hezbullah gets back into the thick of things with the IDF. Iran and Syria are continueing to smuggle in arms to hez. and when they say "go" then hez. will attack, or at least the cowardous thing, kidnap an IDF member.
3. should have done it long time ago
(08.27.06)
4. ceasefire
(08.27.06)
all the IDF ever needs to do is invoke the 'terrorism' clause, and their actions magically become legitimate... this deluded thinking permits them to operate on sovereign soil? i think not.. the IDF should substantiate their claims with Lebanon BEFORE they act with such wanton disregard for the treaty, or else there'll be quick repercussions.
5. UNIFIL must have been sipping tea...
Elana ,   USA   (08.27.06)
to have (wink-wink) overlooked this massvie project.
6. Idiot Spies! Idiot Leaders!
stude ham ,   outremont, canada   (08.27.06)
This bunker was 400 metres away from the northern border, two kilometres long... and is only being discovered now? and never before that olmert disaster? What the #$%^& was the idf shin bet and mossad doing all this time??? and really how hard would it have been to detect such massive construction??? With this kind of complete and absolute incompetence in its leadership Israel is doomed. Wake up and get all of these idiot leaders out the way!
7. UNIFIL Providng info to Hizbullah about Israel's soldiers
Chaya ,   Bat Yam   (08.27.06)
I lost the link to the Weekly Standard. SO, either search Weekly Standard or go to www.worldnetdaily.com and scroll down till you get to the article about UNIFIL. You'll be amazed!
8. UNIFIL Accused of Providing Israeli Intelligence to Hizbulla
gerd schulz ,   germany   (08.27.06)
A7news 27.08.06 17:18:06 UNIFIL Accused of Providing Israeli Intelligence to Hizbullah By Hillel Fendel The officially-neutral UN peacekeeping force posted, on its website, information about Israel's troop deployments in Lebanon - but nothing about Hizbullah. UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along the 70-mile Israeli-Lebanese border. However, as columnist and ZOA Philadelphia chapter President Lori Lowenthal Marcus writes in the Weekly Standard this week, it appears that UNIFIL took a clearly one-sided stand in favor of Hizbullah during the recent war in Lebanon. UNIFIL "openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hizbullah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon," Marcus wrote, "even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction." In contrast, nothing specific regarding Hizbullah's terrorist forces was ever posted. Instead, only general statements such as one to the effect that Hizbullah "fired rockets in large numbers from various locations" were published. As an example, UNIFIL posted the following on July 25: "Yesterday and during last night, the IDF moved significant reinforcements, including a number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and infantry, to the area of Marun Al Ras inside Lebanese territory. The IDF advanced from that area north toward Bint Jubayl, and south towards Yarun." UNIFIL has been implicated before in partiality towards Hizbullah. Just 18 hours after the kidnapping of three IDF soldiers along the Israeli-Lebanese border in late 2000, UNIFIL troops videoed two cars that were used in the abduction and that were filled with blood and other kidnapping-related evidence. Though the videos may have helped save one or more of the soldiers' lives, high-ranking U.N. officials, including Secretary General Kofi Annan and Middle East envoy Terje Larsen, denied that any such videotape existed. Only on July 6, 2001 did the U.N. finally admit that it possessed the tape. Meanwhile, efforts to build a new UNIFIL force to help the Lebanese Army deploy in southern Lebanon instead of Hizbullah met with some success on Friday. European nations pledged up to 7,000 troops - nearly half of the 15,000 soldiers called for by the ceasefire, UN Resolution 1701. UNIFIL currently has just under 2,000 troops. The largest force - 3,000 soldiers - is to come from Italy, followed by 2,000 from France. The Italian troops could arrive this week, followed within two weeks by the French. Other countries that said they would send troops include Spain (1,000-1,200), Poland (300, with 200 already in UNIFIL), Belgium, and Finland. Three Islamic countries with no diplomatic relations with Israel - Malaysia (whose president has made harshly anti-Semitic speeches), Bangladesh and Indonesia - have offered to participate in UNIFIL, though Israel has expressed its reservations. Despite Israel's request, UNIFIL peacekeepers will not be stationed along the Lebanese-Syrian border to prevent arms smuggling to Hizbullah unless Beirut specifically requests it. This was decided at the UN-sponsored meeting on Friday.
9. Did all the smart people leave Israel?
naro ,   nyc   (08.27.06)
How can such huge concrete tunnels mot be detected by the IDF. There must be dozens more. What is the IDF doing besides kidnapping civilians? It seems that the IDF is a shadow of its old self. Maybe the future is bleak!
10. What did you do in the war UNIFIL ? the Usual
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (08.27.06)
What did you do in the war, UNIFIL? You broadcast Israeli troop movements for Hizbullah http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/622bqwjn.asp DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon. ........... Read the entire article http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/622bqwjn.asp and don't forget to look at UNIFIL website where we see the proof UNIFIL: United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon - Press releases http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/unifilpress.htm The UN as always helping Terrorists
11. What have IDF and Intel been...
rickmd03 ,   Baltimore,USA   (08.27.06)
doing for the last six years. Hire me and I will show you guys how to keep an eye on them. Dont you read Tom Clancey novels?
12. HEY #1 DAVID ASK THIS QUESTION...
KEITH ,   NY,USA   (08.27.06)
How did the US build the multi level bunker system under the White House with out the people of D.C. knowing it? How did all the governmental projects like that in America happen without our knowledge? ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW! THEY JUST GET-ER-DONE
13. Why it took almost 45days to blow bunker 400mts from border?
KMR ,   Middle East   (08.28.06)
14. Any Hez bunkers within Israel's proper yet?
Asylum Aleikum   (08.28.06)
Look again.
15. This a complete waste of time and money!
Ari ,   Jerusalem   (08.28.06)
Now if I was a Hizbollah commander, why would I use a bunker that was discovered by my enemy ever again? It would be a trap but I guess Olmert and CO needs to highlight this HUGE achievement, bravo. Instead of wasting money, time and energy on blowing up an abandoned bucker, try finding undiscovered bunkers and blow them up while Hizbollah terrorists are inside for a change! If Israel security and well being determined by your way of thinking then I'll give Israel a very short life span! Schmucks!
16. #( Naro: Not all smart people left Israel. I am still here
Yakov ,   Ashkelon   (08.28.06)
17. What happened to your state of the art
John ,   NZ   (08.28.06)
spying satellite. Oh maybe, you guys are concentrating on Iran and overlooked 400 m infront of you. That's OK as long as you zero in the Monkey.
18. #12 & #7
David ,   Marietta USA   (08.28.06)
RE #12 The White House. The entire structure was gutted when Truman was President; the only thing left standing was the walls. That's probably when most of the sub level stuff went in. As for the other projects, the US is pretty big. But you cannot tell me that a 120 foot deep, 1 mile long complex half a mile from your home can be constructed with no one noticing. #7; no I am not amazed in the least.
19. hizbullah bunker ?? Bunkers
Ely greenhut ,   Jerusalem Israel   (08.28.06)
20. great
samir ,   beirut lebanon   (08.28.06)
dear all, simple answer, maybe it was regular hizbullah's checkpoint and the IDF media wanted to show the importance of this action by saying it was a huge bunker. this y? your intellegince did not notice building a smal checkpoint. your IDF wants to score points through the media and not by doing good job
21. WRONG INFORMATION!!!
Michael Cohen ,   London   (08.29.06)
"About a week ago, IDF forces shot to death three Hizbullah gunmen near the village of Shama in the western sector of south Lebanon. None of the troops was injured." Well done IDF, I guess now everyone knows you've done a great job and killed 3 HB fighters, and you lost no one? You must have the upper hand in this thing, you're the best IDF, my heroes! When is the media going to stop believing those fools that call themselves the spokespeople for the IDF?
22. I did tell Mr. Nasrallah that Hizbullah exercised restraint
gerd schulz ,   germany   (08.30.06)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525969029&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull "Let me say that Hizbullah... is a player in the south of Lebanon... I did tell Mr. Nasrallah that Hizbullah exercised restraint, responsibility and discipline after the withdrawal, and that we would want to see that continue, and I'm sure from the indications that he gave me that he intends to do it," Annan said after his meeting in June 2000.
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