Prometheus 6

Reminds me of President Carter's attempt to get the hostages out of Iran...a failure. 

After the gunbattle, the Israelis pulled out under cover of fierce air strikes.

Sneaking in by helicopter isn't as easy as it looks, is it? And you didn't much like what happened when you didn't sneak...

Israel raid in Lebanon tests U.N. truce
Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:40 AM ET
By Nadim Ladki

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hizbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon on Saturday in the first major attack since a U.N.-backed truce halted Israel's 34-day war with the Shi'ite Muslim group.

Lebanese security sources said three Hizbollah guerillas were killed in a firefight. The Israeli army said it had suffered one dead and two wounded.

The security sources said commandos in two vehicles unloaded from helicopters were on their way to attack an office of senior Hizbollah official Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek in the village of Bodai when they were intercepted. After the gunbattle, the Israelis pulled out under cover of fierce air strikes.

Israel said the raid aimed to disrupt arms supplies to Hizbollah from Syria and Iran. Both deny arming the group.

"Special forces carried out an operation to disrupt terror actions against Israel with an emphasis on the transfer of munitions from Syria and Iran to Hizbollah," Israel's army said.