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To: Road Walker who wrote (294922)	7/15/2006 11:26:20 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572598

"A missile fired by Hezbollah, not an unmanned drone laden with explosives, damaged an Israeli warship off Lebanon, the army said Saturday. Iranian troops helped fire the missile, a senior intelligence official said." Oops. Yes, that qualifies.

To: Road Walker who wrote (294922)	7/15/2006 2:46:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572598

The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said about 100 Iranian soldiers are in Lebanon and helped fire the Iranian-made, radar-guided C-102 at the ship late Friday. Is this guy from Israel intel or American or what? How does he know that 100 Iranian soldiers fired an Iranian made missile? This sounds like stuff being made up as they go along........not that that matters any more.

To: Road Walker who wrote (294922)	7/15/2006 2:48:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572598

I can not believe this shit. When I read the heading of the article, I assumed it was Putin not willing to agree to the ceasefire. Instead, its fukking Bush. Unfukkingbelievable! Bush, Putin Disagree Over Call for Mideast Cease-Fire (Update2) July 15 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern over escalating violence in the Middle East while parting company over the issue of a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Bush declined to endorse the Russian leader's call for such a cease-fire, saying instead that Hezbollah was largely responsible for the violence and should halt its attacks on Israel. ``I think all parties here want the violence to stop,'' Bush said today after a meeting with Putin ahead of the G-8 summit of leading industrialized nations in St. Petersburg, Russia. ``The best way for us to stop the violence is for Hezbollah to lay down its arms.'' The U.S. president's stance distances him from other G-8 leaders, including Putin, who yesterday called for a cease-fire and announced he is sending a special envoy to the region to try to broker a peace agreement. Other leaders, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, have called for Israel to exercise restraint and scale back its response to Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel and the capture of Israeli soldiers. ``It is absolutely unacceptable to try to reach political goals through the use of force,'' Putin said through a translator at a joint news conference with Bush after their meeting. ``At the same time, we work under the assumption that the use of force should be balanced. In any case, bloodshed should stop as soon as possible.'' Bush, who has blamed the governments of Iran and Syria for backing Hezbollah, called on Syria to ``exert influence'' over the radical Islamic group to bring a halt to rocket attacks against Israeli cities. U.S. and Israel Later, White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said U.S. officials have spoken frequently with the Israelis and urged them to ``think through the consequences of what they are doing'' and avoid destabilizing the Lebanese government. Hadley, speaking to journalists in St. Petersburg, said Israeli officials have told the U.S. that they are trying to limit the loss of innocent life. ``They have said they are trying to stop the missiles coming into their country,'' Hadley said. ``It's very difficult and very challenging because of the nature of the enemy. It's a dilemma for them.'' After a bilateral meeting with Bush, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said the G-8 leaders were searching for a common position regarding the Middle East that might call for Hezbollah to be disarmed or leave its stronghold in southern Lebanon. ``We're still in a phase of expressions of position, and not in a real negotiating phase,'' Prodi told reporters at his bungalow in St. Petersburg. Prodi a `Facilitator' Prodi characterized himself as a ``facilitator'' in seeking to put an end to the violence and said he had related to Bush his conversations today and yesterday with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ``All sides want to see a cease-fire,'' Prodi said. ``The big problem for the Israelis, the Americans and the Italians is the presence of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. This is hindering a cease-fire.'' Hadley said a G-8 statement on the Middle East was ``coming together.'' He said it likely would include ``something about Hezbollah being at the root of this problem'' and ``the need to put maximum pressure'' on the group to halt its rocket attacks and return Israeli prisoners. He said the statement would also highlight Iranian and Syrian involvement and that ``pressure needs to be put on them.'' Russian View Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that both Hezbollah's seizure of hostages and Israel's retaliation were unacceptable to his government. ``There's a real threat of drawing third parties into the conflict,'' Ivanov told reporters. Blair's spokesman, Tom Kelly, said his government is ``not going to get into the blame game.'' Asked about Bush's placing responsibility for the violence on Hezbollah, Kelly said: ``We all have a different perspective. The important thing is that we all use every lever we have and every influence we have to get the situation resolved.'' The European Union reiterated its view that Israel had overreacted. ``Israel has the right to defend itself against rocket attacks, however the use of force has been disproportionate,'' Matti Vanhanen, the prime minister of Finland and the current EU president, told reporters in St. Petersburg. ``All forces must respect humanitarian law.'' Violence Continuing Putin and Bush spoke as violence and tension continued to mount in the Middle East. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah declared war on Israel, and Israeli forces continued bombing attacks on Hezbollah posts in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon. A Lebanese official said Israeli bombing raids have killed 64 Lebanese; an Israeli official said rocket attacks have killed 12 Israelis, including eight soldiers. It was the most serious Israeli military action in Lebanon since May 2000, when Israel pulled out of a swath of southern Lebanon it had held for 18 years. Israeli jets have bombed Beirut's international airport three times, forcing its closure, and have effectively cut the highway from Beirut to the Syrian capital of Damascus through additional bombing raids. Other targets have included bridges and highways out of the Lebanese capital and fuel depots within the city. -With reporting by Gwen Ackerman in Jerusalem and Sebastian Alison, Reed V. Landberg and Steve Scherer in St. Petersburg. Editor: Fireman bloomberg.com