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Hezbollah says it has fired a new rocket Itsdb 07/28/06
    BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah said it fired a new rocket, called Khaibar-1, striking near the Israeli town of Afula, south of Haifa. Israeli authorities reported that five rockets hit fields outside Afula, causing no casualties.

    The strike came two days after Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech that Hezbollah would start a new phase in the battle striking beyond the Israeli city of Haifa, which has been hit several times in lethal rocket fire.

    The area around Afula, 30 miles south of the Israeli-Lebanese border area, has been struck before, but Israeli security officials said Friday's attacks were the southernmost so far.

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    How fitting. Hezbollah has a new rocket named after a Jewish town Mohammed conquered that refused to accept Islam. Is 30 miles into Israel taking it to a new level - or does Nasrallahlamadingdong have something else up his Jubba?

      Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 07/28/06 3:37 pm:
      Elliot

      I record Batchelor on my MP3 and listen during the day as I can . Haven't listened to last night's show yet .

      Clarification/Follow-up by Judgment_Day on 07/28/06 11:27 pm:
      I found this article for an update:

      For years, the border towns and kibbutzim in the upper Golan section of Israel, near Lebanon and Syria, have been under threat from Katyusha missiles. Cities just a few miles further south -- like Haifa and Tsfat, the crumbling, quiet mountaintop home of Jewish mysticism -- were safe; relying on short-range Katyusha rockets, Lebanese militants had the ability to sew terror only twelve miles into Israel. That changed on Thursday, when Hezbollah launched a new weapon, the Ra'ad rocket, which hit Tsfat and, for the first time, Haifa, 20 miles from the border. 220,000 Israelis stayed in bomb shelters last night to avoid the missiles, Ha'Aretz reports.

      The exact make-up and configuration of these weapons is unclear. Some sources call it a modified anti-tank rocket; others a cruise missile. Range estimates vary from 120 to 350 kilometers, or more. One report calls it a 122mm projectile. Hezbollah claims the Iranian-made "rocket is of 333 mm in diameter and has a warhead of 100 kilograms."

      Hezbollah's arsenal is likely filled with even deadlier weapons. Israel believes the terrorist group "has missiles that can hit most of Israel, and which could even strike Be'er Sheva [deep in Israel's southern, Negev desert] under optimum conditions," Ha'Aretz notes.



 
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1. I don't know whether the Hez have anything else, but I do...
07/28/06 ETWolverineExcellent or Above Average Answer
2. never heard of it . They must've added a couple of Roman ...
07/28/06 tomder55Excellent or Above Average Answer
3. Time for the sheik to take one between the eyes; guess the I...
07/28/06 jackreadeExcellent or Above Average Answer
4. Anything to bring new fear to their enemies. I'll be tho...
07/28/06 drgadeExcellent or Above Average Answer
5. That news has by now been confirmed. I heard they have an up...
07/28/06 isizathuExcellent or Above Average Answer
6. We are never to underestimate an enemy... but as much hate a...
07/28/06 Judgment_DayExcellent or Above Average Answer
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