UFO?
[The Israeli airforce is hitting Kfarshima, the area where the UFO fell. Journalists are speculating that the UFO was a Hezbollah missile that was aimed at Israel but was somehow brought down at launch.]
Fifteen minutes ago "an unidentified flying object", as described by Al Manar TV, fell in flames from the sky in the area of Kfarshima, east of Beirut.
Here in our offices which are nearby, we felt the pressure but we did not hear the explosion.
The news that transpired at first and the TV images showed a plane being shot down by a missile. But the Israeli military denied it, according to local TV stations.
The Lebanese security forces cordoned the area and prevented reporters from going in. There is talk about a missing pilot, an F16, an MK observer plane and burning cars. People in the southern suburbs of Beirut celebrated, shooting in the air.
More to come...
Now New TV is saying that there were two pilots on board the falling plane or helicopter and sources in Hezbollah told Al Jazeera that they have ground to air missiles.
Sources from the Lebanese government said to a local TV station that there were no pilots nor plane.
The UFO was a small container full of leaflets, according to the Israeli military.
I guess the pro-Hezbollah celebrations on New TV, Al Manar, Al Jazeera and that of the pro-Syrian politicians was a little premature.
Instead those idiots should put an end to their rubbish slogans and show some true love for Lebanon and let the elected government of Lebanon impose its sovereignty on the whole Lebanese territory.
Fifteen minutes ago "an unidentified flying object", as described by Al Manar TV, fell in flames from the sky in the area of Kfarshima, east of Beirut.
Here in our offices which are nearby, we felt the pressure but we did not hear the explosion.
The news that transpired at first and the TV images showed a plane being shot down by a missile. But the Israeli military denied it, according to local TV stations.
The Lebanese security forces cordoned the area and prevented reporters from going in. There is talk about a missing pilot, an F16, an MK observer plane and burning cars. People in the southern suburbs of Beirut celebrated, shooting in the air.
More to come...
Now New TV is saying that there were two pilots on board the falling plane or helicopter and sources in Hezbollah told Al Jazeera that they have ground to air missiles.
Sources from the Lebanese government said to a local TV station that there were no pilots nor plane.
The UFO was a small container full of leaflets, according to the Israeli military.
I guess the pro-Hezbollah celebrations on New TV, Al Manar, Al Jazeera and that of the pro-Syrian politicians was a little premature.
Instead those idiots should put an end to their rubbish slogans and show some true love for Lebanon and let the elected government of Lebanon impose its sovereignty on the whole Lebanese territory.
posted by zadigvoltaire at 2:37 PM
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my office is further but we're still suprised we didn't see or hear anything -- coworkers were calling in from the mountains assuming we had.
of course, all that damned smoke hanging over the country doesn't help-- can't see much of anything anymore!
Israeli Air force says all it's aircraft reported ok and claims the fallen object might have been a pamphlets box failed to open in the air.
I'm following this from Spain and these lebanon blogs are very interesting.
(Some) international politicians would like this madness to stop today, Israel seems bent on continuing for the forseeable future and the Lebanese and Hezbollah also.
Apart from wanting it to stop as soon as possible, do you have any thoughts on how long that will realistically take?
¡Saludos y suerte!
From Spain too!
I'm no army strategist, but don't expect this to finish before a week or two more, what Israel is doing right now is not attacking but PREPARING to attack. All the bombings till the date were not directed to kill Hizbullah but to prepare the grounds to do it. So, I would say, two weeks more. This, if no more countries get involved, as I think they will. This could become much more interesting in a few days.
Do not pray for peace, but for victory. Israel victory. Go Warriors of David!
I would suspect that Israel is in direct communication with the Lebanese this very minute and I think most of the world would be very happy for the government of Lebanon to impose *it's* sovereignty over Lebanon.
I had heard that the intention of Israel was to push back Hezbollah to the point where their rockets and missiles could no longer reach Israel's cities. And I understood that the "slogans" were Israel's attempt to tell the people to leave so they would not be killed or injured in the assaults against the terrorists.
The way you described, it was a long range iranian-made missile that was either shut down right after launch, or malfunctioned during flight. This is the good part... The bad part, it's possible that launcher was located in residential neighborhood.
israeli tv showed a clip recorded from one of the bombers ... israeli bomb hits hezbollah rocket launcher near beirut and a long range iranian rocket spins into the air ... they say this was this UFO which was originally thought to be a downed israeli plane ...
they also say double attempt to kill two hezbollah leaders .. in one of them a rocket fired from a warship into the window of a building in beirut
they say it was a freak accident ... the bomb fell close to the launcher ... hezbollah did nt attempt to shoot the rocket ... they are preparing launchers to get them closer to the south
basicly the idea is simple .. they say hezbollah is going on their long range iranian missiles ... this is one of the their last cards they have nt used yet ... israeli citizens are warned to be ready ....
That is what I am getting as a consensus: Freak accident (or lucky hit) caused an Iranian missile to launch prematurely and crash. Hezzy supporters celebrated the loss of their own missile without knowing it.
Good to see the Israelis shooting straight for once. I don't like the reports of Chrisian arab grandmothers getting wounded in their apartments.
more news ... if u r interested to hear the news from israel ( i am israeli ) ...
olmert in knesset today ... the message is very simple ... he said i am paying for mistakes of barak and sharon with their policies of self restraint .. there is a sort of misunderstanding among hamas and hezbollah of what the real israeli responce can be ... very little can be done about this , he said , except by driving the message very strongly thru lebanon ...
lebanon ... he says .. demilitiarization of hezbollah ... lebanon army takes positions on the south ... hostages are returned without condition ...all fire stops ...
israeli analysts say olmerts message is to the international comminity ... he does nt see sanyora as a real leader .. he just says to the US and to the saudies - u want lebanons infrastructure safe , then come and disarm nasrallah ...
a particular message is to the saudies .. olmert says - i know how much u invested into lebanons reconstruction ... u dont want all those years go up in flames then get involved and restrain these hezbollah lunatics..
How nice; another 'peace rally'. How about inviting Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Queada?
Terrific rally in New York!
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I represent a group of young people that studies in Lisbon University that calls "Geração de Luta".
I just want to say that everbody belives in a peaceful situation and we will pray for that. We are against this war.
We wish wou luky.
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