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Kofi Annan blasts Israel over cluster bombs: “Those kinds of weapons shouldn’t be used in civilian and populated areas … and [we need to] move very quickly to disarm them,” Annan said in Jordan. Stone’s throw from UNIFIL positions:……

[source, source] UNIFIL—the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the……

Remember how scary the projections of Osama’s Tora Bora fortress were? The reality was somewhat less intimidating. Well, take a look at Bryan’s post on Hezbollah’s sophisticated network of burrows and warrens they built right under UN…

Michelle’s Vent today about Al Manar, Terrorist TV, and the bust of a NY man for rebroadcasting the vile station into America is terrific. And Bryan posts a story about Hezbollah’s bunkers. Hezbollah builds seriously advanced bunkers, right next to…..

I’m finished with “diplomacy,” “conventions,” “protocols,” “roadmaps,” and all that other, obviously meaningless nonsense. So, yes, in particular, if anyone can build a bunker and kill me with a bullet, I can very well kill him by any prudent means whatsoever.

Well said and RIGHT!

Truly there is nothing that critics have ever said of the UN that is not vindicated. If anything, we underestimate their dhimmitude and cowardice…

What sloppy thinking. No… underground developments will vary considerably based on the type of ground, the methods used to excavate and reinforce the tunnels, and the design philosophy. Underground fortifications at Iwo Jima would be as relevant to a discussion of Hezbollah as crawling-room-only shallow unreinforced dirt tunnels used by the VC in the Vietnam War, that is to say, not really relevant at all. The Japanese garrison on Iwo Jima was far more powerful and sophisticated than the whole of Hezbollah.

How do you know that? Hezbollah has deep pockets and different layers of expertise from people dressed as the Tin man with a suicide belt that says “pull string here’ to the best engineers Iranian money can buy. Engineers good
enough to build nuclear weapons.

Lebanon has different terrain, It is not all sand, and the bedrock of iwo jima also exists in the hills and mountains of lebanon. The taliban burrowed into mountain bedrock in afghanistan, and where we knew of an entrance we could do damage. Collapsing an entrance with a bunker buster is effective. Even removing one exit point out of many can reduce the ability of an enemy in war. That is why we bother removing a single insurgent’s house when we know there are many more insurgents’ houses left.

Every machine of war has a vulnerability, and tunnels can be pinched off at exits and ventilation points. Iwo Jima was well before the electronic era and before computerization of warfare.

The bunkers I photographed are on Iwo Jima, but a bunker’s a bunker, more or less. Hole, ground, in. Repeat as many times as necessary.

What sloppy thinking. No… underground developments will vary considerably based on the type of ground, the methods used to excavate and reinforce the tunnels, and the design philosophy. Underground fortifications at Iwo Jima would be as relevant to a discussion of Hezbollah as crawling-room-only shallow unreinforced dirt tunnels used by the VC in the Vietnam War, that is to say, not really relevant at all. The Japanese garrison on Iwo Jima was far more powerful and sophisticated than the whole of Hezbollah.

As for tunnels being resistant to airstrikes, Hezbollah didn’t go a good job if Israel destroyed this major excavation with airstrikes. Contrast Iwo Jima, where the Japanese fortifications survived a much more ferocious bombardment. From the description in the link, this excavation looks more like typical a fortified defensive line than anything else. Maybe it was seen as some kind of delusional Maginot line by Hezbollah. It obviously didn’t work.

Seems to me the best bunker buster is a small nuke, and a good satellite system, to catch anything trying to escape via alternate exits.

Sorry.

Another possibility is from a small (non-shaped)explosive charge sitting on directly on the roof of the vehicle, or a poorly designed IED charge fired from somewhere above. Either of which make the Pallies the most likely culprits.

No way in hades it was a missile, not even a ‘dud’ one.

At first I was having trouble reconciling the two photos of the same spot, one looking grey and the other looking like two years worth of rust…. I guess it could be white balance differences from the flash photo at night and natural light for the daytime one, but the daytime one STILL looks like a couple of years worth of rust, while the flash looks like fresh damage.

I am sure the Israelis saw it being built, too. They were in a better position to “do something about it” than the UN.

It would really help if we (and the Israelis) brought back napalm and flamethrowers.

It would really help if we brought back everything. If one wishes to influence American foreign policy and techniques of warfare, one can do so by becoming a voting American citizen. If one wishes to have a flat guarantee that neither nuclear, biological, nor chemical weapons will ever be used against one’s people, one can very well make a petition for their inclusion as a state in the American federated republic. And if one wishes never to be tortured, one can very well pledge allegiance both to the flag and to the republic, on video and before crowds, with a big, wet, sloppy smile on one’s face.

I’m finished with “diplomacy,” “conventions,” “protocols,” “roadmaps,” and all that other, obviously meaningless nonsense. So, yes, in particular, if anyone can build a bunker and kill me with a bullet, I can very well kill him by any prudent means whatsoever.

Bunkers like these will make “fixing” the problems we have with terrorists much more difficult. The fact that the UN “peacekeepers” turned a blind eye to construction of these reinforces my opinion that they are an arm of the “Axis of Evil.”

Please someone edumacate me as to who’s brilliant idea the UN was and why it was formed in the first place!

Apparently Iran has extensive bunkers that house their nuclear nerve center as well. Bunkers so deep it would be nearly impossible to destroy them. (From a Discovery Times show I watched during a bout with sleepnessness.)