Israeli Raid on Baalbak Lebanon Success!

LadyEagle · Aug 3, 2006

Aug. 2, 2006 14:13 | Updated Aug. 3, 2006 0:58
Raid 'sends message' to Hizbullah
By ANSHEL PFEFFER AND YAAKOV KATZ

While Tuesday night's operation in Baalbek, called "Sharp and Smooth," appeared to have been about collecting intelligence, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said Wednesday that its main goal was to deliver a message to Hizbullah that the IDF "can operate deep inside Lebanon and wherever else we want to."

The General Staff officer said the operation, which he claimed was meant to "make noise," had instilled a sense of fear within Hizbullah, which now fully understood the IDF's far-reaching capabilities.

The soldiers slid down ropes from hovering helicopters and quickly took up positions as they began moving toward their target - a hospital in the Bekaa Valley deep inside Lebanon. As they drew closer to the hospital, believed to have been the place where kidnapped soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, were treated after they were abducted by Hizbullah last month, they encountered heavy gunfire from Hizbullah gunmen taking cover in surrounding buildings.

The battle lasted for several hours, following which the elite force of close to 200 soldiers, returned to Israel carrying loads of intelligence information and without any casualties. At least 10 Hizbullah gunmen were killed.
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Plain Old Bill · Aug 3, 2006

Good!I'm all for them. We are in a wae against terrorists.We do not have the option of quitting. If we quit we will only be slain like lambs.

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