Saturday, October 31, 2009

Israel: On Ground Updates - October 31, 2009

Israel: On Ground Updates

Rockets Launched This Year For Fifth Time Across Lebanon Border Prompts Israeli Army To Return Fire

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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* HAARETZ.com brings us the following report this Saturday afternoon and it starts off like this... Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) confirmed on Saturday that Israel was operating intelligence-gathering networks within Lebanon... Speaking at an event in Be'er Sheva, Ya'alon said that "the moment Hezbollah renewed their attacks, we began to collect intelligence. We will stop when Hezbollah disarms itself and the [Israel-Lebanon] border is a border of peace."... "When we are in conflict with an enemy," he continued, "we gather information about them."...

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Deputy PM confirms: Israel is gathering intel inside Lebanon

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> HAARETZ.com also had this report posted up on their website late Friday evening and it started off like this... Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations has warned that Israel is exhibiting signs of an imminent attack on his country, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Hayyat reported on Friday...

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Lebanon warns UN: Israel planning to attack us

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* Naharnet.com reports it this way today... Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon stressed on Saturday that "Israel has the right to collect investigatory information from inside Lebanon in all means possible," adding that "Israeli secret service agents are maintaining their activities inside the Lebanese territories."...

Yaalon: Israel Will Continue Surveillance Inside Lebanon Until Hizbullah Disarms

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* The Daily Star had the following report up on their website Friday, Oct, 30th and it goes in part like this... The rocket, launched from the village of Houla in southern Lebanon, landed in Kiryat Shmona, a border town in northern Israel. The incident was the fifth time rockets have been launched across the border from Lebanon this year and prompted the Israeli army to return fire with artillery rounds. There were no reports of damage or casualties on either side...

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Al-Qaeda group claims rocket fire from Lebanon

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* Al Bawaba had this report up on their website Friday...

Lebanon: President says Israel responsible for Katyusha attack

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POST UPDATE:

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Lebanese Army Arrest Terrorist Suspect Fadi Ibrahim for firing Katyusha Rocket into Israel Last Week

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* IsraelNationalNews.com has this short report...

Report: Lebanon Arrested Katyusha Terrorist

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* Haretz.com had the following report posted up on their website late Saturday evening and it goes in part like this... Lebanon arrested a man suspected of orchestrating a recent rocket launch toward northern Israel, the Lebanese daily As-Safir reported on Saturday... On Wednesday, Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets ready for launching near the border with Israel last Wednesday, a day after the Katyusha was launched from the southern village... The Katyusha fire was the first such incident since last month, and the ninth since the Second Lebanon War...

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Report: Lebanon nabs top militant over rocket attack against Israel

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* TAYYAR.com had this short report posted on their website late Saturday... Lebanon's envoy to the United Nations has warned of an imminent Israeli attack on his country, condemning the regime's recent artillery attack on the southern village of Houla... Ambassador Noaf Salaam relayed a message to the United Nations secretary general and to the Security Council on Friday, warning that Israel's repeated threats against Lebanon indicated the regime's plan for an attack on the country, Lebanese daily Al-Hayyat reported...

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Israeli attack on Lebanon 'imminent'

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* CNN.com had the following report posted up on their website late this Sunday morning and it starts off like this... A militant Islamist group associated with al Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, far from its normal base of operations in Somalia... Al-Shabab, which is fighting to control the east African country, accused Israel of "starting to destroy" the Al Aqsa mosque, where standoffs have taken place recently between Israeli police and Palestinians. The mosque is part of the complex that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram al-Sharif... "The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of Al Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers," said Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, a prominent Al-Shabab commander...

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Somali group with al Qaeda ties threatens Israel

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