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The Official Uncle Wally World War III **NEWZ** Service -- hot off the newzwirez, peoplez !!!! |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2340486,00.html
The Sunday Times September 03, 2006
Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria
Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, and Sarah Baxter, New York
THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing
for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli
political and military sources.
The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink in Israel. A
key conclusion is that too much attention has been paid to Palestinian
militants in Gaza and the West Bank instead of the two biggest state
sponsors of terrorism in the region, who pose a far greater danger to
Israel=E2=80=99s existence, defence insiders say.
=E2=80=9CThe challenge from Iran and Syria is now top of the Israeli defence
agenda, higher than the Palestinian one,=E2=80=9D said an Israeli defence
source. Shortly before the war in Lebanon Major-General Eliezer Shkedi,
the commander of the air force, was placed in charge of the =E2=80=9CIranian
front=E2=80=9D, a new position in the Israeli Defence Forces. His job will =
be
to command any future strikes on Iran and Syria.
The Israeli defence establishment believes that Iran=E2=80=99s pursuit of a
nuclear programme means war is likely to become unavoidable.
=E2=80=9CIn the past we prepared for a possible military strike against
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear facilities,=E2=80=9D said one insider, =E2=80=9Cbut =
Iran=E2=80=99s
growing confidence after the war in Lebanon means we have to prepare
for a full-scale war, in which Syria will be an important player.=E2=80=9D
A new infantry brigade has been formed named Kfir (lion cub), which
will be the largest in the Israeli army. =E2=80=9CIt is a partial solution
for the challenge of the Syrian commando brigades, which are considered
better than Hezbollah=E2=80=99s,=E2=80=9D a military source said.
There has been grave concern in Israel over a military pact signed in
Tehran on June 15 between Iran and Syria, which the Iranian defence
minister described as a =E2=80=9Cmutual front against Israeli threats=E2=80=
=9D.
Israel has not had to fight against more than one army since 1973.
During the war in Lebanon, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, the Iranian
founder of Hezbollah, warned: =E2=80=9CIf the Americans attack Iran, Iran
will attack Tel Aviv with missiles.=E2=80=9D
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in
London, both Iran and Syria have ballistic missiles that can cover most
of Israel, including Tel Aviv. An emergency budget has now been
assigned to building modern shelters.
=E2=80=9CThe ineptness of the Israeli Defence Forces against Hezbollah has
raised the Iranians=E2=80=99 confidence,=E2=80=9D said a leading defence an=
alyst.
In Washington, the military hawks believe that an airstrike against
Iranian nuclear bunkers remains a more straightforward, if risky,
operation than chasing Hezbollah fighters and their mobile rocket
launchers in Lebanon.
=E2=80=9CFixed targets are hopelessly vulnerable to precision bombing, and
with stealth bombers even a robust air defence system doesn=E2=80=99t make
much difference,=E2=80=9D said Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative.
The option of an eventual attack remains on the table after President
George Bush warned on Friday that Iran must not be allowed to develop
nuclear weapons.
While the American State Department favours engaging with President
Bashar Assad of Syria in the hope of detaching him from the Iranian
alliance, hawks believe Israel missed a golden opportunity to strike at
Syria during the Hezbollah conflict.
=E2=80=9CIf they had acted against Syria during this last kerfuffle, the war
might have ended more quickly and better,=E2=80=9D Perle added. =E2=80=9CSy=
rian
military installations are sitting ducks and the Syrian air force could
have been destroyed on the ground in a couple of days.=E2=80=9D Assad set o=
ff
alarm bells in Israel when he said during the war in Lebanon: =E2=80=9CIf we
do not obtain the occupied Golan Heights by peaceful means, the
resistance option is there.=E2=80=9D
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=3D/news/2006/09/03/wmid03.xml
'Hezbollah is arming Gaza for a new war on Israel', says Israel's spy
chief
By Michael Hirst and Clancy Chassay
(Filed: 03/09/2006)
Israel's spy chief has given a warning that Palestinian militants in
the Gaza Strip are garnering increasing numbers of weapons and tactical
expertise from Hezbollah fighters since the war in southern Lebanon
erupted earlier this summer.
Yuval Diskin, the director of Shin Bet, Israel's equivalent of MI5,
said Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was being used as a terrorist base and
fast becoming a haven for arms smugglers preparing to shift their wares
into the Gaza Strip.
He added that within Gaza terrorists were building rocket hideouts, a
bunker network and an anti-tank missile arsenal as they prepared for an
escalated confrontation with Israel.
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"If we don't move to counter this smuggling, it will continue and
create a situation in Gaza similar to the one in southern Lebanon," he
said at a private meeting with Israeli MPs last week.
He told members of the Israeli parliament's foreign affairs and defence
committee that Hamas had set out to emulate Hezbollah's tactics in
Lebanon, building tunnels and bunkers to help to smuggle weapons and
militants across the border from Egypt, since Israel withdrew from Gaza
last year. The border is now controlled by the Palestinians and Egypt,
with the help of European monitors.
According to accounts of the meeting by MPs who were present, Mr Diskin
painted a bleak picture of the growing arsenal of weapons being
assembled in Gaza, with Hezbollah's help, for use against Israel. In
addition to Katyusha rockets with a 10-mile range, dozens of anti-tank
missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, 15 tons of explosives, 15,000 guns
and four million rounds of ammunition had been smuggled across the
Egyptian border through a network of around 20 tunnels, Mr Diskin said.
The only weapons that could not be smuggled in this manner, he added,
were tanks and aircraft. The Shin Bet director's appearance at a
behind-closed-doors meeting with MPs last week was his first as
spokesman for a new intelligence advisory body, which encompasses
Israel's military intelligence department and its overseas spying
agency, Mossad, as well as Shin Bet.
Gaza has come under sustained, and, at times, intense, military
pressure from Israel since Palestinian militants snatched an Israeli
soldier in late June. More than 270 air strikes, numerous ground raids
and days of incessant artillery fire have caused damage of almost =C2=A320
million, according to UN estimates.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed and several hundred more
wounded in the strikes.
Electricity and water supplies are dangerously low, while the
cancellation of subsidies from the European Union and the United
States, in addition to payments from Israel to the Palestinian
Authority, have brought the economy to its knees.
Any business activity that has continued has been hampered by the
growing number of Israeli checkpoints, barriers and controls. All this
has forced 80 per cent of Gazans into poverty =E2=80=93 earning less than =
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a day.
Even as the international community pledged almost =C2=A3300 million in aid
to the Palestinians at a donors' conference in Stockholm on Friday,
Israeli military sources remain convinced that the Palestinian threat
to Israel is as a great as Hezbollah's was in Lebanon, and is fast
becoming more acute.
They suspect Hezbollah has taken a tactical decision to scale down its
operations in southern Lebanon, focussing instead on new anti-Israel
fronts in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
Mr Diskin added that law and order was in rapid decline throughout
Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the West Bank, where
Hezbollah was becoming a greater threat than even Fatah and Hamas.
The connection between the two organisations has been strong since
1992, when 400 Hamas members were exiled from Israel to Lebanon where
they were significantly influenced, both politically and militarily, by
Hezbollah. A number of those Hamas leaders are still based in Lebanon.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph earlier this summer, Galeb Abu Zeinab,
a senior Hezbollah politburo member, said of his party's relationship
with Hamas: "The co-operation with Hamas is the best kind of
co-operation. We always consult with each other and share experiences.
Hezbollah tries to support Hamas is any way it can."
Alistair Crooke, a retired MI6 officer who spent several years during
the early 1990s trying to engage Hamas and Hezbollah in dialogue with
the EU, agreed with this appraisal.
"Hamas and Hezbollah are going to concert their policy towards the
Palestinians in close co-operation with each other," he said.
Israeli military analysts believe that the number of weapons being
delivered to the Gaza Strip has doubled since the war ended.
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Appreciation
Crocodile Hunter, Audience Charmer
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 5, 2006; Page C01
Steve Irwin spent much of his life not just tempting fate but petting
it, riding its back and swinging it by the tail. In the end, fate
snapped back.
Irwin, television's "Crocodile Hunter," died yesterday at the age of 44
in his native Australia after being stung by a stingray while shooting
a new TV series along the Great Barrier Reef. It was a freaky way to go
-- stingrays are rarely lethal -- but perhaps morbidly fitting, since
imminent death was the unbilled co-star of Irwin's fascinating and
entertaining career.
You watched Irwin as you watched a high-wire performer, never hoping
for a slip but fully aware of how awful (and interesting) one would be.
In his showman's heart, Irwin knew that "Crocodile Hunter" would never
be captivating television if the animals he touched, held and
occasionally provoked couldn't take him out with one snap of the jaws.
So, in his trademark safari shirt, khaki shorts and hiking boots (did
the man ever wear anything else?), Irwin bounded gleefully into the
viper's pit and the scorpion's den. He traveled the world to show off
new nasties -- pythons, Komodo dragons, monitor lizards, tarantulas
and, of course, massive crocs -- all without a doctor or rescue team
anywhere in sight, the herpetologist's equivalent of working without a
net.
There was a bit of gleeful, heedless joy in the way Irwin went about
his adventures, as if he were a kid playing in a mud puddle. He
actually seemed to like all the icky stuff. In one episode, he walked
through a bat cave, taking a bat "shower" in the process. In another
segment, he combat-crawled up to a pack of vultures as they fed on the
remains of a hippo.
"One of my wildest boyhood dreams was getting close enough so that I
was sharing the carcass with vultures," he said, by way of narration.
It was the kind of thing that invited the viewer to invoke Irwin's
signature line: "Crikey!"
Irwin was also a relentless hype artist, forever pointing out the sheer
folly, the craziness -- the "dain-jah!" -- of whatever he was doing. An
unusual number of snakes seemed to rate his breathless description as
"the world's most venomous," and this or that creature would be "one of
the biggest I've ever seen," or "the most aggressive animal I've ever
come across!"
But the man could hold viewers spellbound, beguiling them just as he
charmed his snakes.
"I don't want to seem arrogant or bigheaded, but I have a real instinct
with animals," he told me when I interviewed him several years ago.
"I've grown up with them. . . . It's like I have an uncanny
supernatural force rattling around my body. I tell you what, mate, it's
magnetism."
Herpetologists scoffed at that, pointing out that many professionals
handle dangerous animals without incident. (In fact, Irwin got bitten
fairly regularly by non-venomous snakes and had one or two unpleasant
encounters with crocodiles.) The pros were generally none too pleased
with Irwin's antics, saying they simultaneously inflated the dangers of
wild animals (most animals run away when confronted by humans, for
example) while making wildlife handling seem like casual fun.
All of which may be true, but it missed the real appeal of "Crocodile
Hunter." The concept -- guy meets nature's meanest -- would not have
worked, or worked as well, had Marlin Perkins or Jack Hannah been the
host. Only a personality as vivid and exuberant as Irwin's could have
made the adventurer-among-the-beasts bit such compelling television.
American viewers, who saw the series on the Animal Planet channel,
"got" Irwin immediately, I think. We've been trained to identify his
type by a generation of Qantas airlines and Foster's beer commercials
and "Crocodile Dundee" movies. Irwin was another of those
unpretentious, outdoorsy, can-do Aussie blokes who seem so much more
"American" to Americans than the British ever will.
In person (or at least on the telephone, which is how I spoke with him
and his wife, Terri), Irwin seemed a lot like he did on TV -- amped-up,
emphatic, sincere in his passion for preserving and protecting
wildlife. He also sounded a bit humbled by his then-dawning TV career.
Trained as a diesel mechanic (he never received a degree in any animal
study), Irwin credited his love of the animal kingdom to his father, a
plumber turned zookeeper. He said he never expected to be appearing on
TV screens around the world.
One other thing: He really did say "crikey!" a lot.
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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