In addition to dropping bombs, appears Israel is spamming Lebanon phones

Israel Fights Propaganda War Over Phones

By DONNA ABU-NASR
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 8, 2006; 1:34 PM

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hassan al-Harakeh answered his phone one evening to hear a deep voice asking: "How long will you go on supporting the gang of Hassan Nasrallah?" It was Israel calling, with a message denouncing Hezbollah and its leader.

Cell phones and land lines across Lebanon have been ringing with automated, recorded messages _ part of a propaganda war being waged along with Israel's assault on Lebanon.

The sophisticated campaign has given the impression that Israelis are everywhere, not just in the warplanes overhead or on the front lines of the ground battle against Hezbollah. Hackers broke into Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV transmission, and the Lebanese press is dotted with reports of Israeli commandos turning up in places far from the front in the south.

The Israeli army has refused to confirm that it is behind the phone calls. But few Lebanese have any doubts.

"This is the beginning of the cell phone war between Israel and Hezbollah," wrote Ahmed Mughrabi, a reporter for Al-Hayat newspaper.

Mughrabi got a call as well, the same deep voice but this time addressing Nasrallah: "Hassan, have you realized yet that the Israeli army is not as delicate as a spider's web? It's a web of steel that will strangle you."

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more determined to fight the Israelis.

:mad: :argh: :nuke:

In the words of al-Harakeh, "Do they really think these calls are going to change our position?"

Do they?

has said that the landlines have been out since the first week. He just returned from southern Lebanon

This story reeks, if it's happening it's only to cellphones in the north.

...of a certain phone-jamming scam headed up by high-level U.S. Republicans

Makes one want to go "hmmm..."


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