Category Archives: The War

…without firing a shot…

"Threaten Iran’s gasoline supply. Iran is often said to have an oil weapon pointed at George Bush’s head. Rob Andrews, a Democratic congressman from New Jersey, notes the reverse is closer to the truth: Because Iran lacks refining capacity, it must import 40% of its gasoline. Of that amount, fully 60% is handled by a single company, Rotterdam-based Vitol, which has strategic storage and blending facilities in the UAE. The regime also spends $3 billion a year to subsidize below-market gas prices."

UPDATE The U.S. it seems is moving against Iran in lesser ways, although we only hear it through the usual anonymous sources.

"The United States blocked an Iranian cargo plane’s flight to Syria last month after intelligence analysts concluded it was carrying sophisticated missiles and launchers to resupply Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, two U.S. intelligence officials say.

"Eight days after Hezbollah’s war with Israel began, U.S. diplomats persuaded Turkey and Iraq to deny the plane permission to cross their territory to Damascus, a transfer point for arms to Hezbollah, the officials said."

And the science of crate-ology. 

"What is so infuriating about this is that the ACLU favors policies which discriminate against all sorts of people—old people, women, children and others who, under random searches and other idiotic numerical formulas, are pulled aside for literally no reason at all.

"All of this is happening against a backdrop of a war on terror in which roughly 99 percent of jihadi terrorists are of either Middle Eastern or South Asian descent and 100 percent of them are Muslim."

Yoni Tidi, an Israeli blogger, links to an Al Jiz article detailing the hacking of Lebanese television.

"A photograph of Nasrallah himself also appeared with the legend: ‘member of Hezbollah: watch out.’ Another photograph of corpses was framed by the words: ‘there are a large number of corpses like this on the ground and Nasrallah is hiding this truth." Israel also recently hacked into FM radio stations and instead of normal programmes a two-minute recording was repeatedly broadcast.’

"’Hassan sent men to fight the Israeli army, an army of steel, without preparing them. Stop listening to patriotic hymns for a moment, reflect and bring your feet back to the ground,’ said the Arabic message.

"Israel has reportedly used a variety of technological weapons to add a psychological dimension to its war in Lebanon. Lebanese mobile phone users have also received text and voice messages saying the Israeli offensive was aimed against Hezbollah and not the Lebanese people."

Yoni also has lots of military sources and keeps up with what the IDF is doing and why, making him worth a visit. And so is In Zion, We Trust, which has a good analysis, a map, and detailed comments.