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BEIRUT -- Israeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages Sunday in a menacing show of force apparently aimed at the Hezbollah guerrilla group after a mysterious raid by an unmanned aircraft that was shot out of Israeli skies over the weekend.
Israel was still investigating Saturday's incident, but Hezbollah quickly emerged as the leading suspect because it has an arsenal of sophisticated Iranian weapons and a history of trying to deploy similar aircraft.
grandpakhalif wrote:Hezbollah already defeated Israel in 2006.
I am Pro-facts. If isreal would've lost that skirmish the whole lebanon would be in flames now.grandpakhalif wrote:typical sunni, always pro -israel.
Agreed. I never understand why people say Israel was defeated. that's rubbish. BTW, i thot you could tell me more about this:MidriGeez wrote:grandpakhalif wrote:Hezbollah already defeated Israel in 2006.
Isreal used 1% of its Military force in 2006 and decimated Hizebollah while causing almost $10 billion damage to lebanon and leaving half a million unexploded clustered bombs in south lebanon, to add pushed the buffer zone 25km inside lebanon which is monitored by the united nation so they don't have to worry about hizbollah coming close to the border, they get to use the River along the border for their water resources and forced hizbollah to show their biggest cards by admitting they posses iranian made anti tank rocket launchers they weren't sure that hizbollah had. Just wait till syria is rid of assad and watch how Isreal will carpet Bomb the whole of south lebanon into nothing. Hizbollah is only trying to start a fight with isreal now to get all the muslims and arabs attention away from assad the alawi kafir. I hope they do so 2 birds would be hit with one stone.
In an event that is sure to embarrass Eritrea’s long-time ruler, two pilots of that country’s armed forces fled the country on Tuesday, flying in none other than the presidential jet. According to Jazan News, on Tuesday the air force captains flew the aircraft at low altitude across the Red Sea towards Saudi airspace, and were met by two Saudi F-15 fighter jets before landing at a regional airport in the Southwestern city of Jizan.
The two pilots have been tentatively identified as Yonas Woldeab and Mekonnen Debesai -- a witness at that airport reported seeing two men disembark from the aircraft, and multiple sources report they’ve
sought political asylum from Saudi authorities.
According to Radio France Internationale, the two individuals are not just any “ordinary” military officers, as they worked directly for President Afewerki and were involved in secret missions to Somalia, including ferrying equipment for the Islamist al-Shabaab militia. The U.S. has in the last few years turned its attention onto Eritrea due to its government’s alleged support of al-Shabab, which is categorized as a terrorist organization and is recognized as the Somalia branch of al-Qaeda.
The latter claim by RFI seems further corroborated by Eritrea’s dispatching of a high ranking military officer, General Tekle Habteselassié, on an “urgent” mission to Riyadh. A blogger familiar with events claims the aircraft in question is an Israeli-built IAI Astra 1125, a twin-engined VIP jet transport, and the only such aircraft currently known to be operated by Eritrea.
This latest embarrassment comes on the heels of additional high profile defections -- in August, the athlete selected to carry Eritrea’s flag during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games sought asylum along with three other athletes. In 2011, thirteen players from the country’s national soccer team defected while at a tournament in Tanzania.
Eritrea has long been criticized for its poor human rights record, along with the worst ranking for press freedom in the world. The country’s president, Isaias Afewerki, has held that position since
1993, and has been described as “unhinged,” “cruel and defiant.”
AmalJaber wrote:Agreed. I never understand why people say Israel was defeated. that's rubbish. BTW, i thot you could tell me more about this:MidriGeez wrote:grandpakhalif wrote:Hezbollah already defeated Israel in 2006.
Isreal used 1% of its Military force in 2006 and decimated Hizebollah while causing almost $10 billion damage to lebanon and leaving half a million unexploded clustered bombs in south lebanon, to add pushed the buffer zone 25km inside lebanon which is monitored by the united nation so they don't have to worry about hizbollah coming close to the border, they get to use the River along the border for their water resources and forced hizbollah to show their biggest cards by admitting they posses iranian made anti tank rocket launchers they weren't sure that hizbollah had. Just wait till syria is rid of assad and watch how Isreal will carpet Bomb the whole of south lebanon into nothing. Hizbollah is only trying to start a fight with isreal now to get all the muslims and arabs attention away from assad the alawi kafir. I hope they do so 2 birds would be hit with one stone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/air-forc ... ia-2012-10In an event that is sure to embarrass Eritrea’s long-time ruler, two pilots of that country’s armed forces fled the country on Tuesday, flying in none other than the presidential jet. According to Jazan News, on Tuesday the air force captains flew the aircraft at low altitude across the Red Sea towards Saudi airspace, and were met by two Saudi F-15 fighter jets before landing at a regional airport in the Southwestern city of Jizan.
The two pilots have been tentatively identified as Yonas Woldeab and Mekonnen Debesai -- a witness at that airport reported seeing two men disembark from the aircraft, and multiple sources report they’ve
sought political asylum from Saudi authorities.
According to Radio France Internationale, the two individuals are not just any “ordinary” military officers, as they worked directly for President Afewerki and were involved in secret missions to Somalia, including ferrying equipment for the Islamist al-Shabaab militia. The U.S. has in the last few years turned its attention onto Eritrea due to its government’s alleged support of al-Shabab, which is categorized as a terrorist organization and is recognized as the Somalia branch of al-Qaeda.
The latter claim by RFI seems further corroborated by Eritrea’s dispatching of a high ranking military officer, General Tekle Habteselassié, on an “urgent” mission to Riyadh. A blogger familiar with events claims the aircraft in question is an Israeli-built IAI Astra 1125, a twin-engined VIP jet transport, and the only such aircraft currently known to be operated by Eritrea.
This latest embarrassment comes on the heels of additional high profile defections -- in August, the athlete selected to carry Eritrea’s flag during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games sought asylum along with three other athletes. In 2011, thirteen players from the country’s national soccer team defected while at a tournament in Tanzania.
Eritrea has long been criticized for its poor human rights record, along with the worst ranking for press freedom in the world. The country’s president, Isaias Afewerki, has held that position since
1993, and has been described as “unhinged,” “cruel and defiant.”
Kukri wrote:It is a proven fact that No "Arabs" can fock with Israel.
MidriGeez wrote:
lol i saw that news, the bold part is the whole point of the fabricated news, its from a websites that is known to be full of lies and made up stories. The plane they showed went out of service 7 years ago and their source is "Confidentail" No names of sources and who defected, I know the people who runs this site they are scums clowns lol Last time they reported that Asseb port was used By iranian for miltary base and an island 15 km's away from asseb was rented to the isreali airforce with an isreali military airforce having close to 40 planes there. The problem with this website is they make up a story with "classified" sources and "classified " names" and when other webistes pick up their story they claim then their source is the other website, funny sometimes you see a made up story with a source as another website and when you go to the other website they put the source as the first website. lol
Kenya was crying foul with the propaganda not long ago, The sad part is kenyan is smart enough to know if somali gets proper training again for their Army/Fighters they would actually capture half of kenya in few days hence it took them 2 years to make sure al shabab would not have the capacity to counter strike. The people who believes this news is the one that want to believe it, Most horners and even somali educated people know this fabrication, i saw one somali on al jazeera arabic interview and he knew the whole play in the horn that i knew 100% the trouble in somalia is designed from outside somalia. Eritrean opposition like Assena.com and few others are more or less fictional websites read by almost all eritreans for entertainment purposes only.AmalJaber wrote:MidriGeez wrote:
lol i saw that news, the bold part is the whole point of the fabricated news, its from a websites that is known to be full of lies and made up stories. The plane they showed went out of service 7 years ago and their source is "Confidentail" No names of sources and who defected, I know the people who runs this site they are scums clowns lol Last time they reported that Asseb port was used By iranian for miltary base and an island 15 km's away from asseb was rented to the isreali airforce with an isreali military airforce having close to 40 planes there. The problem with this website is they make up a story with "classified" sources and "classified " names" and when other webistes pick up their story they claim then their source is the other website, funny sometimes you see a made up story with a source as another website and when you go to the other website they put the source as the first website. lol
Were it not that i've seen a good amount of propaganda against Kenya, i'd have thought you were just defending your govt. But it's really funny. The most pathetic thing is that people tend to believe this kind of rubbish. I sensed it was a lie when i realized that none of the major news outlets reported on it.
