- JERUSALEM (AP) -- A missile fired by Hezbollah, not an unmanned drone laden with explosives, damaged an Israeli warship off Lebanon, the army said Saturday. Iranian troops helped fire the missile, a senior intelligence official said.
One sailor was killed and three were missing.
The intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said about 100 Iranian soldiers are in Lebanon and helped fire the Iranian-made, radar-guided C-102 at the ship late Friday.
If it turns out that Iran is involved in this, I think it gives Israel the provocation they need to attempt to take out Iran's nuke program, which I sure the US would not be unhappy about.
The other irony of all of this is that if Israel is successful in taking out Hezbolla (sp?) in southern Lebannon, it would have freed an Arab country from a totalitarian regime (at least in the south), but will still be hated in that country.
