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...Arneth, a 70-year-old former crocodile hunter who goes by the name of Wolf, is reminiscing about the great Normanton rocket launch of 1957. He was among the party of inebriated amateur scientists gathered by the river that night. They'd heard on the radio that the Soviets had just put the Sputnik spacecraft into orbit. "We thought, We can build a rocket,'' Arneth says. Commandeering a welder, they made a long cylinder from three 44-gallon drums, then rigged up a nose cone from an old hopper. "They got an old car seat and put that...
...supposedly been cleaned up--at the cost of American blood. There is no reason to believe that a re-tinkered Operation Forward Together will be any more successful, especially since insurgents, terrorists and militias have had ample warning that more Americans are coming, giving them time to pack their rocket-propelled grenades and leave...
...They both say they are happy with the way the war is proceeding and believe that Hizballah's hit-and-run tactics are succeeding against Israel's technological superiority. But they say that Hizballah's leadership has exercised some restraint. "Sayyed Hassan could have ordered a rocket strike on the petrochemical plants in Haifa, but he didn't," says Abu Mohammed, referring to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader. He adds that Islam teaches them to treat people with love and as brothers. But what about the firing of rockets into towns and cities in Israel? "This...
...That initial level of success means that the current task is becoming more difficult. Now, the Israelis are hunting for rocket launchers small enough to fit in the back of a pickup truck or that can be fired from an apartment balcony. "It's like a match. They can only use their rockets once before we strike them," the colonel says...
...shields and targets. He says, "We're fighting the same battle as the U.S. is with al-Qaeda." Hizballah, he says, are hard to spot among Lebanese civilians because they don't wear uniforms and they ride around on motorcycles and in pick-up trucks. Hizballah also hides its rocket launchers in houses, garages and in teeming neighborhoods, he alleges...