Saturday, August 12, 2006

ISRAEL TRIPLES GROUND TROOPS IN LEBANON

So what's the plan.....kill as many people and destroy as much of the country as they can before the U.N. resolution goes into effect? Oh wait, I forgot, they don't care about any stinkin resolutions.


By ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press Writer
Posted August 12 2006, 8:05 AM EDT


BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Israel staged wide-ranging airstrikes and sent commandos into the Hezbollah heartland Saturday while the U.N. raced to begin enforcing its new cease-fire blueprint and stop combat. Airstrikes killed at least 19 people, including 15 in one Lebanese village.

Israel also blasted a highway near Lebanon's last open border crossing to Syria as it kept up its full-scale campaign against Hezbollah militants. Long columns of Israeli tanks, troops and armored personnel carriers streamed over the border.


The U.N. plan approved Friday night would create a peacekeeping force by combining a beefed-up version of the ineffective U.N. units already in the war zone and 15,000 soldiers from the Lebanese army. The force, which could number around 30,000, would stand between Israel and the Hezbollah militia.


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