Diary of August 10 2006: Fighters Show Heroic Epics in Battle Tea offered in Marjiyoun

33 Days of Steadfastness and Resistance All the Way to Victory Day

Local Editor

The fighters of the Islamic resistance once again engraved a heroic epic in fighting the enemy. The missiles never stopped raining on the occupation settlements. 18 soldiers and officers were killed in the enemy lines. Fifteen destroyed Merkava tanks were the end result of the confrontations with the enemy on the different fronts especially in Khiyam - Marjiyoun planes, and the Markaba battle front, which witnessed the fiercest of battles where 10 soldiers were killed, 4 of them inside a Merkava tank.

On the Aynata front fighters went though fierce confrontations and brought down the enemy attempt of advancement and destroyed 3 tanks.
On the Taybeh Project front, the fighters took an enemy infantry unit by surprise, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 6.

The fighters hunted down an "Israeli" infantry force in Marjiyoun. The latter moved towards the town's barracks where 400 members of the Lebanese Joint Security Forces are in position.
They entered the barracks and took the Lebanese elements as human shields. The Joint Force Commander in the south the ISF Brigadier General Adnan Daoud received the enemy force commander lieutenant colonel Honi in his office and provided tea to him and all members of his force.

"Israeli" jet fighters dropped loads of brochures over Beirut, and the southern suburb warning the citizens to evacuate the areas of Hay al-Sillum, Borje Al Barajneh, and Shiyah. They also threw other fliers in the North warning Lorries and pick-up trucks from moving at night.

A helicopter bombed the old lighthouse in Beirut with two rockets destroying its upper part. Other helicopters bombed the old transmission tower of the Lebanese Station in the locality of Al-Manara-Ain Mrayseh. Another chopper targeted the transmission antennas of the Lebanese Station on the coast of Amsheet, which was regarded as a political message to the Lebanese government.

President Emil Lahoud pronounced his surprise of the "American-French decision project because it didn't include any of the articles mentioned in the ‘7-point plan' which is supported by all the Lebanese" hoping that "the Lebanese decision to send 15 thousand soldiers to the south will inflict some change on the American-French project."

MP Saad Hariri said in a talk with American CNN TV station that "Lebanon has nothing to do with this war and that it has simply been used as a battlefield by all sides including Syria and Iran."

The president of the enemy's government Olmert exchanged accusations with high level army command due to their expansion of the military operations and the defeat of the "Israeli" soldiers.
Olmert described them as "Hotsabanim" which means rude and arrogant.