Israeli Commando Raid Foiled Hizbullah

Posted on 08/19/2006 by Juan

Israeli Commando Raid foiled: Hizbullah

Lebanon says that the Israelis made a commando raid into the Biqa’ valley, attacking a village near Baalbak. The Lebanese maintain that they foiled the raid.

The Lebanese army increased the territory within which it functions in the South.

WaPo on Hizbullah: The best guerrilla group in the world.

Milt Bearden, who used to run a Hizbullah-like group in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s, is not impressed with Israel’s war on Lebanon’s Hizbullah.

Helena Cobban and Scott Harrop on Cordesman’s analysis of the Israeli war on Lebanon.

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