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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: Scoobah who wrote (15421)	8/13/2006 8:27:18 AM
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DEBKAfile reports heavy battles on South Lebanese fronts Sunday August 13, 2006, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00) Hizballah has deployed dozens of fighters for furious anti-tank missile assaults on IDF tanks and field units along the front. Fierce clashes are raging just north of the Israeli town of Metula and other parts of the former “security strip” on the border. At least 16 Israeli soldiers were injured before noon Sunday. Saturday, Israel lost 24 men in action, including 5 crew aboard a Yasur helicopter that Hizballah shot down. The chopper's crew were designated fallen and missing in action. More than 100 soldiers were injured – 12 seriously. Hizballah counted 45 dead. Sunday, an unprecedented number of rockets – 155 - were also fired into northern Israel by midday. DEBKAfile’s military sources say Hizballah is demonstrating that its ability to subject northern Israel to rocket barrages from S. Lebanon is unimpaired after a month of combat and that it is still taking fresh supplies of rockets and launchers. In the last 48 hours, the Israeli Air Force and ground troops destroyed 8 launchers. DEBKAfile adds Criticism is mounting in the Israeli public and army of the way prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Amir Peretz and the cabinet conducted the Lebanon war now going into its second month, because of which Israel must forego its primary war goals. Senior IDF officers blame the high proportion of fallen men at the front 1:2 against the Hizballah in the first two days of the broadened ground offensive to the tight time frame Olmert accepted for meeting an arbitrary ceasefire deadline set by the UN secretary for 0800 hours Monday, Aug. 14. The army was given 60 hours to attain all the tactical goals of its final mission. The result in the last 48 hours has been slapdash improvisations and cut corners. The officers say the time remaining is too short for completing the vital siege of Tyre, Hizballah’s main S. Lebanese stronghold. A large stock of rockets and launchers has still to be eliminated there. Neither can the army finish by Monday morning, the clearing out of Hizballah fighters from the south - even from its bases in the more-or-less empty villages close to the Israel border. Hundreds of buildings are therefore being flattened by air or close-range fire. In Saturday night media interviews, top-ranking generals made their disapproval of the government known. The chief of staff Lt. Gen Dan Halutz and OC northern command Maj Gen Udi Adam, in particular, let it be understood that the wide-scale ground finally permitted to go forward Friday shortly before the Security Council resolution had come two weeks too late and precious time had been lost.

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