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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for evil Jews to massacre civilian, women and children
| U.S. speeds up bomb delivery for evil Jews to massacre civilian, women and children [message #228200] |
Sa, 22 Juli 2006 05:58 |
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WASHINGTON, July 21 - The Bush administration is rushing a delivery
of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited
shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah
targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
Mohamed Messara/European Pressphoto Agency
Israeli airstrikes heavily damaged a mainly Shiite section of Beirut's
suburbs.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with
relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials
said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others
because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the
Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran's
efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part of a
multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is
able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel's request
for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-guided bombs was
described as unusual by some military officers, and as an indication
that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she would head to
Israel on Sunday at the beginning of a round of Middle Eastern
diplomacy. The original plan was to include a stop to Cairo in her
travels, but she did not announce any stops in Arab capitals.
Instead, the meeting of Arab and European envoys planned for Cairo will
take place in Italy, Western diplomats said. While Arab governments
initially criticized Hezbollah for starting the fight with Israel in
Lebanon, discontent is rising in Arab countries over the number of
civilian casualties in Lebanon, and the governments have become wary of
playing host to Ms. Rice until a cease-fire package is put together.
To hold the meetings in an Arab capital before a diplomatic solution is
reached, said Martin S. Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel,
"would have identified the Arabs as the primary partner of the United
States in this project at a time where Hezbollah is accusing the Arab
leaders of providing cover for the continuation of Israel's military
operation."
The decision to stay away from Arab countries for now is a markedly
different strategy from the shuttle diplomacy that previous
administrations used to mediate in the Middle East. "I have no
interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to
the status quo ante," Ms. Rice said Friday. "I could have gotten on
a plane and rushed over and started shuttling around, and it wouldn't
have been clear what I was shuttling to do."
Before Ms. Rice heads to Israel on Sunday, she will join President Bush
at the White House for discussions on the Middle East crisis with two
Saudi envoys, Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, and Prince Bandar
bin Sultan, the secretary general of the National Security Council.
The new American arms shipment to Israel has not been announced
publicly, and the officials who described the administration's
decision to rush the munitions to Israel would discuss it only after
being promised anonymity. The officials included employees of two
government agencies, and one described the shipment as just one example
of a broad array of armaments that the United States has long provided
Israel.
One American official said the shipment should not be compared to the
kind of an "emergency resupply" of dwindling Israeli stockpiles
that was provided during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when an American
military airlift helped Israel recover from early Arab victories.
David Siegel, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said:
"We have been using precision-guided munitions in order to neutralize
the military capabilities of Hezbollah and to minimize harm to
civilians. As a rule, however, we do not comment on Israel's defense
acquisitions."
Israel's need for precision munitions is driven in part by its
strategy in Lebanon, which includes destroying hardened underground
bunkers where Hezbollah leaders are said to have taken refuge, as well
as missile sites and other targets that would be hard to hit without
laser and satellite-guided bombs.
Pentagon and military officials declined to describe in detail the size
and contents of the shipment to Israel, and they would not say whether
the munitions were being shipped by cargo aircraft or some other means.
But an arms-sale package approved last year provides authority for
Israel to purchase from the United States as many as 100 GBU-28's,
which are 5,000-pound laser-guided bombs intended to destroy concrete
bunkers. The package also provides for selling satellite-guided
munitions.
An announcement in 2005 that Israel was eligible to buy the "bunker
buster" weapons described the GBU-28 as "a special weapon that was
developed for penetrating hardened command centers located deep
underground." The document added, "The Israeli Air Force will use
these GBU-28's on their F-15 aircraft."
American officials said that once a weapons purchase is approved, it is
up to the buyer nation to set up a timetable. But one American official
said normal procedures usually do not include rushing deliveries within
days of a request. That was done because Israel is a close ally in the
midst of hostilities, the official said.
Day Ten
More Multimedia: Israel | Middle East Although Israel had some
precision guided bombs in its stockpile when the campaign in Lebanon
began, the Israelis may not have taken delivery of all the weapons they
were entitled to under the 2005 sale.
Israel said its air force had dropped 23 tons of explosives Wednesday
night alone in Beirut, in an effort to penetrate what was believed to
be a bunker used by senior Hezbollah officials.
A senior Israeli official said Friday that the attacks to date had
degraded Hezbollah's military strength by roughly half, but that the
campaign could go on for two more weeks or longer. "We will stay
heavily with the air campaign," he said. "There's no time limit.
We will end when we achieve our goals."
The Bush administration announced Thursday a military equipment sale to
Saudi Arabia, worth more than $6 billion, a move that may in part have
been aimed at deflecting inevitable Arab government anger at the
decision to supply Israel with munitions in the event that effort
became public.
On Friday, Bush administration officials laid out their plans for the
diplomatic strategy that Ms. Rice will pursue. In Rome, the United
States will try to hammer out a diplomatic package that will offer
Lebanon incentives under the condition that a United Nations
resolution, which calls for the disarming of Hezbollah, is implemented.
Diplomats will also try to figure out the details around an eventual
international peacekeeping force, and which countries will contribute
to it. Germany and Russia have both indicated that they would be
willing to contribute forces; Ms. Rice said the United States was
unlikely to.
Implicit in the eventual diplomatic package is a cease-fire. But a
senior American official said it remained unclear whether, under such a
plan, Hezbollah would be asked to retreat from southern Lebanon and
commit to a cease-fire, or whether American diplomats might depend on
Israel's continued bombardment to make Hezbollah's acquiescence
irrelevant.
Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to Washington, said that Israel
would not rule out an international force to police the borders of
Lebanon and Syria and to patrol southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah has
had a stronghold. But he said that Israel was first determined to take
out Hezbollah's command and control centers and weapons stockpiles.
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