>>> 10:55am CDT - This is not good news......
Click2Houston.com reports... The capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas has been called an "act of war" by Israel and "a very dangerous escalation" by the United States. Israel warned that Hezbollah will pay a "heavy price" for the abductions and responded to the cross-border raid with an air, ground and sea assault on southern Lebanon. Read this story in full HERE
Here’s another take at spokesmanreview.com... Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid Wednesday, and dozens of Israeli troops crossed the frontier with warplanes, tanks and gunboats to hunt for the captives. Three Israeli soldiers also were killed in the raid. Read story HERE
Also in the News: AmericanChronicle.com reports... Israeli officials confirmed Tuesday night that infantry, and armored units have entered central Gaza and are beginning military operations... Soldiers are going to conduct military operations in the towns of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah where they had not entered since the beginning of the offensive... Read story in full HERE
>>> 11:45am CDT
FoxNews.com is reporting... Maj. Gen. Udi Adam, head of Israel's northern command, told reporters that Israel had "no advance" warning of the brazen cross-border assault by Hezbollah that also killed seven Israeli soldiers. He also said Israel has "no intention at the moment of involving Syria," which has great influence over Hezbollah... Read this story in full HERE (Has videos and photos)
>>> 1:10pm CDT
FoxNews.com is also reporting... Syria and Iran are to blame for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah terrorists and the Israeli military response, U.S. officials said Wednesday... The White House called for the immediate and unconditional release of the two soldiers abducted by Hezbollah guerrillas. Read story in full HERE
>>> 2:10pm CDT
MSNBC.msn.com has some good in-depth reporting... It goes in part as follows... The Arab League planned an urgent meeting on the crisis Thursday amid “fears of widening of tension and possible Israeli strike against Syria,” which backs Hezbollah, a senior league official in Cairo said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa blamed Israel for the escalating violence in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories and denied his country had a role in either abduction. Read story in full HERE
>>> 7:50pm CDT
ynetnews.com reports... A bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane destroyed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City early Thursday and caused widespread damage in a surrounding neighborhood where 13 people were wounded... The strike took place after 1:30 a.m., (their time,) sending a fireball and huge plume of smoke up over Gaza City. Read story in full HERE
>>> 9:50pm CDT
Our friends at the DEBKAfile are reporting... Iran’s National Security adviser Ali Larijani flies to Damascus aboard a special military plane Wednesday night as war tension builds up around Hizballah’s kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers... His presence affirms that an Israeli attack on Syria will be deemed an assault on Iran. It also links the Israeli hostage crisis to Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West... Read this story in full HERE
More ongoing news can be read at DEBKAfile’s Homepage
>>> 10:35pm CDT
Here’s a good read tonight at Newsday.com. It goes in part like this... Hezbollah has hidden thousands of missiles in southern Lebanon, including Iranian-built missiles that can reach Israeli cities such as Haifa and Tel Aviv. At a triumphant news conference in Beirut yesterday, Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah vowed that if Israel intensifies its retaliation against Lebanon, the group will respond with “surprises that the enemy will not expect.” Read story in full HERE
>>> 11:00pm CDT
Fox News and CNN are both reporting that the Beirut International Airport was closed this morning after Israeli Warplanes struck the Airport’s Runways...
MalaysiaSun.com is now reporting that Israel stepped up its attack on Lebanon overnight, bombing bridges, a power station, and the Capital's International Airport... Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport’s runway was the target of three missiles. Planes en-route to Beirut had to be diverted to other airports in the region. Read story in full HERE
This is event number two and the world ratchets up one more notch to an all-out war. It’s not going to take but one or two more significant events in this conflict to set this over into an all-out WORLD WAR.
We all pray that moment never comes.
AubreyJ.........
11:30am CDT
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