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To: Neocon who wrote (12835)	6/24/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

to: Neocon from: truedog Re: data base I don't know of any temple in Texas but can ask around. I thought some reference to it might be on the web but, no such luck. I wonder how Gustave got access and why such personal information is so important to him. Maybe he thinks skeletons in someone's closet can be used to his advantage. I would deeply resent it if I were you. Not that you have any skeletons but the invasion of privacy is rude, to say the least. Regards, truedog

To: Neocon who wrote (12835)	6/24/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

It looks like Netanyahu stopped by to piss in Clinton's boots on his way out... He adopted a very popular method these days : he launched airstikes against a power plant (which blacked out Beirut) in retaliation for rocket attacks by the Hezbollah.... Who could criticize him after Kosovo ? This is no joke. Read on : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 24, 1999 Web posted at: 5:11 p.m. EDT (2111 GMT) BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Israeli warplanes twice attacked a power substation on a hill above Beirut on Thursday night, in apparent retaliation for cross-border guerrilla attacks on northern Israel. At least two rockets were fired on Jambour hill near the Lebanese Defense Ministry compound, Lebanese television reported. It was the first time Beirut had been targeted by Israeli warplanes since the 1996 bombing blitz of Lebanon that killed about 175 people. At least two fire engines, sirens wailing, raced to the scene as the organge flames lit the night sky above the wooded hills of Beirut. There was no immediate word on the extent of damage or casualties from the air raid. The Israeli army confirmed that air force planes attacked a power station that supplies electricity to Beirut. The statement said the bombing was in response to Hezbollah rocket attacks earlier in the day. Israeli television reported that the decision to bomb Beirut was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. The newly elected Ehud Barak has been updated but was not involved in the decision. The bombing came shortly after Israel's army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz threatened to retaliate for the rocket attacks. "This (rocket) fire requires the Israeli army to make an appropriate response," said Mofaz. In Jerusalem, the Israeli military said one soldier and four civilians were lightly wounded in the rocket attack, which was claimed by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrilla group. Israel quickly responded by sending planes to bombard the area where the rockets were believed to have been fired. The hostilities heightened tensions on the last active Arab-Israeli war front as Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak struggled to form a new government. Barak has promised to withdraw Israeli troops from a border enclave in southern Lebanon within a year. Earlier Thursday, shells fired from an Israeli-occupied enclave in southern Lebanon wounded a 45-year-old woman near her home in Qabrikha, 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Tyre, Lebanese security officials said. A similar bombardment Wednesday wounded a boy, 10, and his 70-year-old grandfather. "In response to the repeated Zionist attacks on (Lebanese) civilians, the Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah) bombarded a number of Zionist settlements" in northern Israel, scoring "direct hits," said a Hezbollah statement issued in Beirut. A total of 24 Katyusha rockets were fired at Israeli outposts on the border, some of which fell in a deserted territory in Israel's northern Galilee panhandle, the Lebanese officials said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Hezbollah said its guerrillas also fired another volley of Katyusha rockets on Kiryat Shemona and Shlomi towns in northern Israel. It said the rocket attacks were designed to defend Lebanese civilians and "revive" a U.S.-brokered 1996 cease-fire understanding that called on both Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas to avoid targeting civilians on both sides of the border. In response to the rocket attack, two Israeli warplanes raided suspected guerrilla hideouts in south Lebanon, Lebanese officials said. One jet fired two missiles at a valley near the villages of Hineyeh and Azziyeh, 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the port city of Tyre, the officials said. They added that another Israeli jet provided cover for the raiding plane. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the air raid, and an Israeli army spokesman said all planes returned safely to base. Hezbollah is leading a guerrilla war to oust some 1,500 Israeli soldiers and the 2,500 SLA militiamen from the occupied zone. Meanwhile, a Beirut newspaper said Thursday that Israel planned to withdraw the militia from the southeastern Hasbaya sector of the zone. Such a withdrawal would be the first reduction of the zone since its creation 14 years ago. Al-Kifah Al-Arabi reported that the withdrawal could begin as early as July. Militia officials denied the report and an Israeli army spokesman said, "We don't know about such an intention."