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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
way down in this article is a claim http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...275366,00.html I've seen more support elsewhere but don't have time right now-

I think you're referring to this:

• The IDF said that the Beirut airport constitutes a transportation and shipping station of arms for Hizbullah.

You could make the same claim about most roads and bridges in Lebanon, or about the power and water and sewage utilities. And yet, bombing any of those to deny their use to Hezbollah seems much more likely to kill and affect civilians. The IDF does not claim that it was interdicting arms supplies, which it could do by blockading the airport instead of bombing it.

eta: There's a difference to me between the bombing of the airport and the bombing of the bridges in the south that lead from the area where the two soldiers were captured. The latter seems clearly designed to try to keep the captured soldiers from being moved too far.