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Last update - 17:37 29/10/2009
Qaida-linked group in Lebanon claims rocket attack on Israel
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Lebanon 

A Lebanon-based al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility Thursday for a rocket attack against Israel this week, saying it was in retaliation for Israel's crackdown on protesters at a Jerusalem shrine.

The claim from a group calling itself the Battalions of Ziad Jarrah came two days after a rocket was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, causing no casualties. Lebanese troops subsequently found and dismantled four additional rockets in the village of Houla near the border with Israel.

The claim of responsibility, made on a Web site often used by Islamic militants, could not be independently verified.
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The group is named after a Lebanese militant who as among the 19 suicide attackers that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. It has claimed responsibility for previous rocket-firings across the border into Israel.

The group said its fighters set up five rockets in Houla on Tuesday night but one launched prematurely, leading the militants to flee the area leaving four rockets behind. It was the fifth such attack against Israel from Lebanon this year. Israel responded with artillery fire, but there were no reports of casualties.

Earlier this month, Israel troops cracked down to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the Holy Land. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

Lebanon: Israel arranged rocket fire to keep tensions high

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Thursday suggested that Israel had arranged for collaborators in his country to fire Katyusha rockets at the Galilee earlier this week, in a bid to keep tensions high in the area.

According to the Lebanese newspaper A-Sapir, Israel's declarations that it would not cease its intelligence activities on Lebanese territories validate Suleiman's accusations.

A panel of inquiry established by the Lebanese Army found that the rockets, fired from Houla in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, were launched from the home of the village's mayor.

The mayor was not present in his home, according to the panel, and has no connection to the rocket fire.

Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets ready for launching in a building under construction near the border with Israel on Wednesday, said a senior Lebanese army official.

Three of the four Katyusha rockets found were ready to be fired, said the official.

The discovery came one day after the Katyusha fired, the first such incident since last month.

The attack on Tuesday drew a rapid response from Israeli artillery in a brief flare-up across the border that caused no casualties.

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      1.   1001 nights 10:40  |  17 29/10/09
      2.   Will Lebanon find its way out of the grip of bigotry and terror? 10:59  |  B. Gold 29/10/09
      3.   That`s pathetic 11:01  |  Peter Williams 29/10/09
      4.   FREAK OUT 11:04  |  Marco Antonio 29/10/09
      5.   Perhaps Hariri also assassinated himself to make Syria look bad! 11:05  |  David Eisen 29/10/09
      6.   so stupid. as to intelligence gathering. Hezbo does it in Israel 11:06  |  jo 29/10/09
      7.   Israeli new tactics discovered 11:11  |  Dumont 29/10/09
      8.   And I`m the next queen of England 11:19  |  An Israeli 29/10/09
      9.   Yes, yes we also arranged a birth for Suleiman`s wife 11:20  |  Gil 29/10/09
      10.   Yes, yes we also arranged a birth for Suleiman`s wife 11:21  |  Gil 29/10/09
      11.   Blame Israel 11:44  |  David 29/10/09
      12.   Lebanon is resposible 11:48  |  Jochai Rubinstein 29/10/09
      13.   Lebanon`s feeble leadership fails it again 11:52  |  Joe Sittizen 29/10/09
      14.   Well, one must admit this is an amazingly innovative approach... 12:00  |  Esther 29/10/09
      15.   Yet Obama is giving arms to the lebanon president leader of army 12:04  |  jeff 29/10/09
      16.   lebanese credibility 12:07  |  Edward 29/10/09
      17.   Tension nothing to do Persian puppets of Hezballah armed 12:11  |  PETER SM 29/10/09
      18.   Yes, and the Jews Organized the Holocaust for Political Gain 12:16  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 29/10/09
      19.   yah, that`s it!!! IDF fired into Israel from Lebanon. 12:23  |  Kenny 29/10/09
      20.   They say that Israel arranged Hezballah also, to keep tensions 12:40  |  Israeli citizen 29/10/09
      21.   #3 Marco Antonio, Hizbanese definetely aren`tcapable to monitor 12:41  |  Canadian Historian 29/10/09
      22.   preposteros 12:49  |  what a joke 29/10/09
      23.   And Israel is smuggling in Fajirs from Syria 12:51  |  Alan SA 29/10/09
      24.   Lebanese President accuses Israel of... 12:56  |  David Nigel Braham 29/10/09
      25.   Israel`s neighbors never criticize themselves 13:06  |  Avi 29/10/09
      26.   And what happens to so-called collaborators in their culture 13:10  |  Avi 29/10/09
      27.   Ibelieve 13:11  |  19 29/10/09
      28.   Who needs evidence when accusing israel of something? 13:18  |  Avi 29/10/09
      29.   Hard to Believe 13:27  |  MiddleStanian 29/10/09
      30.   REMEMBER THAT... 13:56  |  ClearCut 29/10/09
      31.   Katyusha fire to keep tension high 13:56  |  Absolute Dane 29/10/09
      32.   LOL 14:36  |  OZ 29/10/09
      33.   I waited twenty-eight long years 14:39  |  OneFilthyJew 29/10/09
      34.   David 14:45  |  Dave 29/10/09
      35.   lets place ourselfs in the place of turkey 14:50  |  Dave 29/10/09
      36.   I do agree that Lebanese President is TOTALLY right. 14:55  |  Marcelle Ibrahim 29/10/09
      37.   to #2 15:05  |  Najeeb 29/10/09
      38.   Israel fires on itself?" Huh? 15:12  |  Rod Serling 29/10/09
      39.   Sulimans note suggest that the Mayor of 15:19  |  Abuya 29/10/09
      40.   Get a clue Lebanon, make peace, stop war 15:36  |  David 29/10/09
      41.   Totally logical 15:37  |  utagawa 29/10/09
      42.   Accusations 15:37  |  syrian opinion 29/10/09
      43.   Standrad Colonial Policy 15:44  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/10/09
      44.   the reality 15:46  |  Dave 29/10/09
      45.   Lebanon`s claims are as fake as the rest of the Arab world 15:51  |  Gee 29/10/09
      46.   Lebanon 16:36  |  The Teacher/Instruct 29/10/09
      47.   The real thing is the falafel war 17:00  |  charro 29/10/09
      48.   #39 David, Your lebanese friends are part of Lebanese diaspora 17:00  |  Canadian Observer 29/10/09
      49.   ibrahim #36, you provoked my laugh 17:06  |  charro 29/10/09
      50.   43 - Yaakov Sullivan 17:38  |  Maurice 29/10/09
      51.   I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, ISRAEL DID IT!! 17:43  |  Mark from Georgia 29/10/09
      52.   to Najeeb 19:13  |  Maria Rita 29/10/09
      53.   It is not beyond the realms of possibility 21:25  |  Chris Linthwaite 29/10/09
      54.   The Germans did it in WW2 21:26  |  Tim 29/10/09
      55.   Israel did it the Lavon Affair 21:27  |  Tim 29/10/09
      56.   Yeah right! 22:11  |  ChanahS 29/10/09
      57.   Lebanese president only talking to brainwashed rabble like najib 22:13  |  Paraclete 29/10/09
      58.   english troop invaded poland 22:27  |  albert 29/10/09
      59.   Esther 22:37  |  TonyL 29/10/09
      60.   ChanahS 22:42  |  TonyL 29/10/09
      61.   the teacher/instructor 46 23:21  |  potobac 29/10/09
      62.   Absolute Dane 00:13  |  Rory 30/10/09
      63.   Mystery deepens 05:38  |  Jasper 30/10/09
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