Guest Post: Houdini Faces His Greatest Escape Act
Liberal Robert Reich: Obamacare Was
Republicans’ Idea
http://lastresistance.com/3513/liberal-robert-reich-obamacare-republicans-idea/
http://lastresistance.com/3513/liberal-robert-reich-obamacare-republicans-idea/
Excerpt:
If the Obamacare rollout had been a success, the Dems would be gloating and
saying, “See? I told ya so.” They’d be talking about how they had immense
opposition from the racists in the tea party, but after a long fight, they were
victorious. And now, thanks to their tenacity, everyone has access to free healthcare
insurance, and everyone’s fitter, happier and more productive as a result.
(Have they all joined the Obama "Choom Gang"? --JB).
Obama’s health-care
promise that people can keep their insurance comes back to haunt him
He knew it was a lie, but if he had told the truth,
Obamacare would not have passed. ~Bob. Excerpt: It is a catchy sound bite that
has turned around to bite the hand that fed it to the country: If you like the
health insurance you have, you can keep it. President Obama’s credibility has
taken a hit over that line, which he tossed off in various versions during
countless campaign stops and policy speeches.
Obama Officials In
2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under
Obamacare. By Avik Roy
Excerpt: If you read the Affordable Care Act when it was
passed, you knew that it was dishonest for President Obama to claim that “if
you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” as he did—and continues to do—on
countless occasions. And we now know that the administration knew this all
along. It turns out that in an obscure report buried in a June 2010 edition of
the Federal Register, administration officials predicted massive
disruption of the private insurance market.
The Biggest Lie?
'Keep Your Plan'
Excerpt: : In the face of millions of cancellation
notices, Democrats want to downplay the president's "keep your health
plan" pledge as standard political hyperbole. It was, in fact, a
calculated lie that got ObamaCare enacted. To understand why, let's freshen up
on a little health care reform history. (This has been talked about a whole lot
in the past few days, and even Obamacare supporters and Democrats have
acknowledged that it's impossible to forget the multiple times Mr. Obama
assured America that no one would take their plan or their doctor away from
them. (One blogger put together a whole collection of video outtakes of Mr.
Obama saying precisely that.) Normally liberal TV personalities have come down
hard on what a mess this is. (Or in the prediction of Max Baucus, a "train
wreck") Now it seems there are a few who are trying to gloss over this,
which I find to be absolutely insulting to the intelligence of everyone. The
bottom line is that all those clearly stated promises about no one having to
lose their plan or their doctor were completely false, and that Mr. Obama
either did know or absolutely should have known they were false. So the ACA was
passed as part of a fraud on the nation, and all the predictions of how it
would not, could not, work as promised were on point. Does no one benefit from
the plan? Yes, a small percentage of people on the lower end of the income
distribution are doing better. They are vastly outnumbered by the people whose
plans are no longer available, and the plans now available cost a lot more for
less coverage. The examples of this have been broadcast for several days now,
and I know of two cases among friends and family that are just like that, much
higher monthly payments for appreciably less coverage. As the time goes on,
more and more people in the middle class will find themselves facing much higher
health care costs, more of the younger people will decide it's easier to face
the fine than the monthly premiums. The truth will emerge unmistakably that
this system does not come close to what was promised. What will we all be able
to do about it then? --Del
Beyond the Obamacare
Website Fiasco
Excerpt: Obamacare's computer glitches have reduced the
president's eponymic health-care plan to fodder for late-night TV comedians.
But in some ways the president is fortunate that the computer fiasco is
obscuring the even bigger and more consequential problems facing the law. For
example, there's the problem with keeping your current insurance. Millions of
Americans are finding out that, even if they like the plans they have now, they
are being kicked off because those plans do not meet the requirements of
Obamacare. ... Comparisons of exchange premiums with those found prior to
October 1 show that premiums are higher now in at least 45 states, in some
cases as much as 256 percent higher. As predicted, the young and healthy are
seeing the biggest increases. It may not be long before Obamacare supporters
look back longingly to the days when the health-care law was just a bad joke.
CBS: ObamaCare Launched After Failing Hundreds of
Tests. By John Hayward
Excerpt: The hits just keep coming. Every time we think the
full depth of the Administration's incompetence and mendacity has been plumbed,
a fresh bombshell revelation detonates.
Here's a new report from the mainstream media's most
persistent Obama gadfly, Sharyl Attkisson, in which we learn the exchange
system failed hundreds of tests administered by employees of the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These were the simplest sort of
"beta" tests, the kind of thing I used to do all the time in my IT
career.
The Obama
Administration Cartel
Excerpt: The latest proof that the Obama administration
believes itself to be the all-mighty arbiter of what is good and right is their
reported response to insurers who are willing to tell reporters what is going
on with Obamacare. The Obama administration is telling insurance companies to
keep their mouths closed, and if any quotes or messages are leaked to the
media, they draw immediate attention from the White House( See the CNN Video
with Anderson Cooper. --JB)
Obama’s Last Move:
Insist There’s No Real Problem and Try to Escape in the Fog. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt (Worth Subscribing to by
e-mail. Free.)
Excerpt: President Obama’s message to those being notified that they’re losing their
insurance: “If you're getting one of these letters, just shop around in the
new marketplace. That what it's for.” It’s as if he was completely unaware that
the site was down for a good chunk of Wednesday. Then we have
Sebelius’ testimony Wednesday morning: “I would suggest the
website has never crashed. It is functional but at a very slow speed and low
reliability.”
This is the spin of the desperate man: Despite all the evidence all around us that things are not fine, I will insist that everything is fine, and my hope is that I will create enough doubt in enough minds about whether or not things are fine to survive the day. That argument isn’t really enough to win -- he’s not likely to persuade the public that the sites are working hunky-dory -- but it might reassure the low-information voters inclined to like him that the current outrage is overhyped. Over the next few weeks, you’re going to hear a lot of administration defenders insisting that things with the website aren’t so bad lately. They’re wrong; we’ll talk about that more in item three. You’re also seeing people assuming that it will be fixed at the end of November. As we’ve laid out, a fully or even largely functional web site by November 30 is probably a longshot, and perhaps even an impossibility. No wonder they’re in a “bunker mentality,” as Chuck Todd says. Obama and his team have finally encountered a problem that they can’t successfully spin, cover up, distract from, or blame on the opposition. (This doesn’t mean they won’t try, of course.)Benghazi ,
Fast and Furious, and the IRS targeting of conservatives impacted too few
people. The Syria
bombing about-face is easily forgotten. The NSA scandal and its fallout abroad
doesn’t impact Americans on a day-to-day basis:
This is the spin of the desperate man: Despite all the evidence all around us that things are not fine, I will insist that everything is fine, and my hope is that I will create enough doubt in enough minds about whether or not things are fine to survive the day. That argument isn’t really enough to win -- he’s not likely to persuade the public that the sites are working hunky-dory -- but it might reassure the low-information voters inclined to like him that the current outrage is overhyped. Over the next few weeks, you’re going to hear a lot of administration defenders insisting that things with the website aren’t so bad lately. They’re wrong; we’ll talk about that more in item three. You’re also seeing people assuming that it will be fixed at the end of November. As we’ve laid out, a fully or even largely functional web site by November 30 is probably a longshot, and perhaps even an impossibility. No wonder they’re in a “bunker mentality,” as Chuck Todd says. Obama and his team have finally encountered a problem that they can’t successfully spin, cover up, distract from, or blame on the opposition. (This doesn’t mean they won’t try, of course.)
Healthcare.gov v.
Private Sector
Excerpt: Fact is, the failure of Healthcare.gov is but a
metaphor for the reality that no government bureaucracy is ever going to
successfully manage 18% of the U.S.
economy, much less a basic commerce website for insurance comparisons. Check
out the Republican National Committee's latest video mocking the botched
rollout.
Excerpt: President Barack Obama’s prescription for health
care law critics: Take a deep breath — and move on. Never mind that House
Republicans have beaten up on two of his top health officials on consecutive
days; that one of them, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,
faces new calls to resign seemingly every day; or that the Obamacare website
crashed while Sebelius was testifying on the Hill Wednesday. Forget that the
website went online with the apparent technological capacity of a badly damaged
transistor radio. And don’t think too much about Obama’s promise that every
American who wanted to keep his or health care plan could do so.
Excellent:
Your Opportunity
is Being Transitioned. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
Forget your old health plan. It was placed in the trunk of a Prius at 3 AM this morning, taken to a frozen lake
outside an organic poultry plant in Minnesota Greenfield
Obamacare is
great...just as long as you don't need to go to a hospital. By Daniel
Greenfield
Excerpt:
It’s the worst combination of private and public health insurance possible with
the government pushing to make the plans as broad as possible in coverage while
insurers compensate by making its networks as shallow as possible. So you can
get your birth control and your obesity counseling anywhere. Those are the
things the social planners really care about bringing to minority communities. Just don’t count on having access to a specialist to treat more
serious medical problems. [Just like the National Health Service in Britain UK UK
Last week, we reported that the “honor system” is being used to confirm the identity
and certification of Navigators/Assisters. The “Find Local
Help” feature on Healthcare.gov refers consumers to potential predators. We
have since reviewed, state by state, every single Navigator/Assister that
Healthcare.gov currently displays to the public via “Find Local Help”.
Report:
Lack of Testing Created ‘High’ Security Risk for Healthcare.gov
Excerpt: The memo was directed to Medicare
chief Marylin Tavenner. It warned that one of the site contractors could not test
site security because the complete system was not working. The memo stated the
failure to test adequately "exposed a
level of uncertainty that can be deemed as a high risk." (Feds violating their own laws. But then, WHO CARES? --Barb)
Panic:
Desperate Democrats Propose Law to Restore Obama's "Keep Your Plan" Pledge.
By Guy Benson
Excerpt:
The firestorm over President Obama's "you can keep your plan" lie now threatens to singe vulnerable
Democrats next year, so they're springing into action to try to force the administration to
keep its word. Louisiana
Thank
These Republicans for Obamacare. By Ann Coulter
Excerpt:
We have Obamacare for one reason and one reason only: For a brief, ghoulish
period in recent history, Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate and
the House of Representatives. We don't have Obamacare because the public was
clamoring for it. We have it because Republicans lost elections
37%
Say Zombies Would Do A Better Job Than Federal Government. Rasmusssen Reports
It is
the nature of great societies to rise and fall. I know this, and I will accept
the inevitability. But it's just so incredibly distressing to me to witness
this race with such pure abandonment, into the tar pits of history.
Excerpt:
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American Adults believe the federal government
would do a better job than zombies running the country today. But the latest
Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most Americans don’t
share that view, with just as many (37%) who feel zombies would do a better job
running the country and another 26% who can’t decide between the two. (To see
survey question wording, click here.)
Health Insurance Losses to Get Worse: 51 Percent to Lose
Employer Based Insurance. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: As millions of Americans in the individual health
insurance market place continue to lose their coverage, analysts are looking
ahead at the fallout we can expect to see when the employer mandate goes into
effect in 2015. We've already seen employers and companies dropping health
coverage altogether and cutting full-time workers to part time in order to
avoid massive health insurance costs but now, Forbes reveals that was just
the beginning.
Third-Party
Statism. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
If you blur the lines between public and private as artfully as American
statism does, eventually everything becomes the government, and your private
sphere is no more genuinely private than those private museums, boat launches,
restaurants, and campgrounds ordered closed at no notice by the shock troops of
the National Park Service. In South Dakota ,
the NPS attempted to shut down an unmanned, open-air parking area on the
shoulder of the highway to prevent Americans from looking at Mount
Rushmore . Apparently, the view belongs to the government and you
can enjoy it only with their approval. In the days of absolute monarchy, a
medieval proverb nevertheless assured us that a cat may look at a king. But in South Dakota
Justice and State
departments blocking access to survivors of Benghazi
Excerpt: The Justice and State departments are now citing a
year-old FBI investigation and a future criminal prosecution to block access to
survivors of last year’s Benghazi terror
attack. In an Oct. 28 letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the State
Department’s Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Julia Frifield,
refers to "significant risks" and "serious concerns about having
the survivors of the attack submit to additional interviews." …This
intelligence was likely available to the president, his national security team
and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who five days after the assault blamed it on an
anti-U.S. demonstration and inflammatory video. (It’s called stonewalling,
“executive privilege.” Worked on F and F. How much corruption and deceit can
the sheeple swallow? --Barb)
Welfare Recipients
Receive More Benefits Than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet And Still Not Happy
http://visiontoamerica.com/16143/welfare-recipients-receive-more-benefits-than-permanently-disabled-combat-vet-and-still-not-happy/#fFxgZSqDt3ifeGrH.99
http://visiontoamerica.com/16143/welfare-recipients-receive-more-benefits-than-permanently-disabled-combat-vet-and-still-not-happy/#fFxgZSqDt3ifeGrH.99
Excerpt: Right now in America , there are approximately
3.5 million disabled veterans drawing, on average, $1,000 in VA disability.
Many of these veterans suffer from permanent disabilities that have greatly
reduced their ability to earn an income...
Obama’s
Credibility Gap: The former hope-and-change president no longer
gets a pass. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Yet the distortions and lack of credibility of the
Obama administration have matched and now trumped those of its predecessors.
The public may have long ago forgotten that Obama did not close down Guantanamo as promised,
or cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, or stop the revolving
door of lobbyists coming in and out of the executive branch. The public may
even have forgiven the president when the stimulus bill never lowered unemployment
as promised, or when his misleading boasts about vast increases in oil and gas
production came to fruition despite, not because, of his efforts. But the
distortions and broken promises have now become so frequent that many at home
and abroad are finally tuning out the president.
Global Regulation
Curbing Growth, World Bank Finds
Huh. Who would have guessed? ~Bob. Excerpt: Many emerging
markets have dramatically improved their business climates in the last year,
but a tangle of onerous regulations the world over is curbing much-needed
growth from the private sector, the World Bank said in a new report
published late Monday.
European Economic
Stability Threatened by Renewable Energy Subsidies
Excerpt: The stability of Europe's electricity generation is
at risk from the warped market structure caused by skyrocketing renewable
energy subsidies that have swarmed across the continent over the last decade The
CEOs of Europe's largest energy companies, who produce almost half of Europe's
electricity, joined voices calling for an end to subsidies for wind and solar
power, saying the subsidies have led to unacceptably high utility bills for
residences and businesses, and even risk causing continent-wide blackouts.
(Everywhere you turn, Progressive Policies make life miserable for the common
folk--but they make Progressives feel good about their good intentions. ~Bob)
The Incredible
Shrinking Workforce
Excerpt: In the early 1960s, labor-force participation among
men ages 25 to 64 began a slow steady decline from 95% to about 84% today, a
trend masked by the surge of women into the labor force. But women's
participation in the labor force peaked in 2000 and has since declined by two
percentage points. Unless men re-enter the job market, prospects for the
resumption of vigorous growth in the U.S. labor force are dim. Men have
been withdrawing from the workforce for five decades. No one is sure why. But
we do know that prospects for robust growth and shared prosperity are dim
unless we can devise more effective labor-market policies.
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Controversial Marine sniper fires back at critics
Excerpt: Joseph Chamblin was such a highly respected staff
sergeant in 2011 that the leaders of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, out of Camp Lejeune , N.C. ,
selected him as a scout sniper platoon commander for the unit’s upcoming
deployment to Afghanistan
— a position typically reserved for an officer. Once in Helmand
province, the scout snipers performed so well against the enemy that they
earned the personal congratulations of the commandant and sergeant major of the
Marine Corps. By January 2012, Chamblin was up for promotion to gunnery
sergeant and set to re-deploy to Afghanistan . Within weeks, however,
his career was in ruins after a video surfaced, showing him and three other
scout snipers urinating on Taliban corpses during a patrol in Helmand’s Musa
Qala district on July 27, 2011. (You can go to the video and listen to this man
in his own words, but the text below covers the situation really well. And it's
a very sad story of major overreaction to a momentary unwise act by a bunch of
guys who'd been the tip of the spear, killing Taliban and doing it well. That
they all instantly became pariahs to all the officers and had high ranking
officers all the way up to the Commandant meddling in their trials is a
horribly sad example of how Political Correctness under this Administration has
eroded away the real ethos of the Corps. Every officer who mucked around with
this should be deeply ashamed, and the officers whose careers were ended
because they were anywhere near these guys have been totally betrayed by the
command structure. This kind of thing makes all Marines, serving or retired,
sick to our stomachs. No enemy could break the Corps, but the politicians can
damage it badly, and appear to be working hard at it. Heaven help us. --Del )
What Will Happen to Afghan Women When the Taliban Returns?
By Cal Thomas
Excerpt: When the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is
completed next year what will happen to Afghan women? Will a resurgent Taliban
return them to wearing burqas, withdraw them from schools and force them to
live behind painted glass in their homes, permitting them to leave the house
only when accompanied by a blood relative? (My take: When the Taliban Come
back. http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-taliban-comes-back.html)
Two U.S. commandos fought in Benghazi
rescue, privately honored for valor: Two out of eight in Tripoli
Excerpt: Masked from public view,
two of the U.S. military’s
elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a
mission that further undercuts the Obama
administration’s original story about the Benghazi tragedy.
Excerpt: Were you bothered just a little when you learned
that Barack Obama was able to reach into the very bowels of the IRS and decide
who gets to be a political organization, who gets to raise political funding,
who gets expedited service, and who gets harassed? After learning that the
government has already got their hands on your phone calls and email records,
are you concerned about how oppressive "big government" has invaded
your personal lives? As you planned your family, based on your ability to
support it, does it bother you that there are millions of Americans who breed
irresponsibly, cannot support the kids they breed, must rely on taxpayer
welfare and WIC and Section 8 housing, Medicaid and food stamps to raise their
herd, then are rewarded by the IRS with billions in Child Tax Credits?
Sheila
Jackson-Lee: 'Constitution gives me immunity to discriminate against the
disabled.' By Daniel Greefield
Excerpt:
Sheila Jackson-Lee is one of the dumbest people in America
Enforced
Diversity in New York
Excerpt: Shockingly enough, the
kind of men who could climb to the top of the World Trade
Center
Sen. Bullhead is
hooked on outrage. By John Kass
Excerpt: "It did not happen," Carney said. That
seems clear enough. And it would have started to fade away, except we learned
Thursday that Durbin had sent out a fundraising letter. The senior senator from
Illinois
cited the apparent outrage to Obama's face, but suggested he'd feel a lot
better if Democrats sent him $16.
Obama Pays Mexican Male
Prostitutes to Stay Disease-Free. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a
Mexican male brothel in Tijuana United States
Excerpt: After months of bulldozing or taking over church
buildings on the pretext that they belong to South Sudanese who are no longer
citizens of the country, authorities are aiding a Muslim businessman’s effort
to take over church property in Khartoum North, sources said.
The Key to Survival in Auschwitz and Bedford Falls: Part 3 in
an exploration of Viktor E. Frankl's Man's
Search for Meaning.
Excerpt: When Frankl realized that life was not a grand
vague notion, but rather a concrete set of tasks, tasks of conduct that shape
our fate, he began to embrace his suffering as a work to get through. He saw
each task as his unique opportunity to grow spiritually and become stronger.
Each individual had to find their own why to live.
Excerpt: Morsi famously promised to rule for all Egyptians,
but, upon taking office, he failed to uphold basic democratic values and
treated his election victory as a license to rule in any way he saw fit.” “President
Morsi (Obama) issued decrees that sacked the prosecutor general, immunized
presidential decisions from judicial review and shielded the Islamic-dominated
Sharia council and the constituent assembly from dissolution. ….His government
drafted an NGO law that essentially placed civil society under state control… (US
official can’t name MB. Does this sound like anywhere else in the world?
--Barb)
Church Looks Like
Penis
Excerpt: The newly-constructed Christian Science Church
in Dixon , Illinois
Whose war? 73 percent of Afghan troop deaths have been under
Obama
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/whose-war-73-percent-of-afghan-troop-deaths-have-been-under-obama/#ixzz2jG77Jct7
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/whose-war-73-percent-of-afghan-troop-deaths-have-been-under-obama/#ixzz2jG77Jct7
Excerpt:
73 percent of
American troop deaths in Afghanistan
Deportations decline as White House pushes for immigration
bill
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/deportations-decline-as-white-house-pushes-for-immigration-bill/#ixzz2jG7aKhBo
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/deportations-decline-as-white-house-pushes-for-immigration-bill/#ixzz2jG7aKhBo
Excerpt: The White
House’s enforcement of immigration law against illegal immigrants and foreign
criminals has dropped by roughly 11 percent since 2012, according to internal
data collected by the Department of Homeland Security. The revelation knocks a
leg out from President Barack Obama’s repeated claims that enforcement has
improved enough to allow Congress to pass a new immigration bill. The Senate
bill, passed in June, would more than double the annual immigration rate of one
million and also provide a staged amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants in
the country.
Obama’s likability
succumbs to political gravity
Excerpt: Now, it’s personal. Gone are the days when
President Obama could count on the public holding him in high personal regard,
even if they don’t like the job he’s doing as president. Americans hold a more
negative personal view of Obama for the first time in his presidency in
an NBC
News-Wall Street Journal poll. Just 41 percent say they have a positive
view of the president while 45 percent say they view him negatively. (Gee, the
more he screws up, the more racists there are. ~Bob)
Excerpt: During the past five years we've seen Obama's
foreign policy strategy repeatedly fail. In Libya , al Qaeda terrorists are
running the country. In Egypt ,
Christians are being slaughtered. In Iran , we saw the Obama
administration miss a golden opportunity to embrace revolution. In Afghanistan
we've seen 73 percent of American casualties since the war
started in 2001 happen under Obama's watch.
Mia's
and Woody's and Frank's son Ronan Farrow: The Youngest Old Guy in the Room. By
Michael Schulman
Excerpt:
“Wow, he’s handsome,” one dinner guest said, peering over a throng of
photographers. “He’s going to be our president in, like, 30 years,” another
gushed. The event, last Monday at the American Museum of Natural History, was a
benefit for the Blue Card, which aids Holocaust survivors, and the object of
the room’s collective kvelling was Ronan Farrow, the 25-year-old lawyer,
diplomat, author, boy genius, offspring of two celebrities (though which two is
an open question), possessor of alabaster good looks and, as of this month, the
latest talent to join MSNBC, where he will host a weekday show starting in
January. (Not sure they'll be a country in 30 years, never mind a president.
~Bob)
Georgia
Tech's new MOOC-Based master's degree in computer science: Online: $6,600.
On campus: $45,000. By Tamar Lewin
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/education/masters-degree-is-new-frontier-of-study-online.html?_r=0
Excerpt:
The disruption may be approaching, though, as Georgia Tech, which has one of
the country’s top computer science programs, plans to offer a MOOC-based online
master’s degree in computer science for $6,600 — far less than the $45,000
on-campus price. Zvi Galil, the dean of the university’s College
of Computing , expects that in the
coming years, the program could attract up to 10,000 students annually, many
from outside the United
States
Daughters
of the Jihad Death Cult. By Robert Spencer
Excerpt:
Last Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd , a
30-year-old woman from Dagestan named Naida
Akhiyalova boarded a bus. Akhiyalova, a convert to Islam, soon afterward exploded a jihad-martyrdom suicide bomb vest,
killing herself, murdering six other people, and injuring over 30 more. The
vest, as it turned out, was a gift from Akhiyalova’s 22-year-old husband,
Dmitry Sokolov, himself also a convert to Islam. Nothing says “I’m just not
that into you” quite like giving your wife a suicide vest.
Excerpt: A US
official confirmed to CNN today that Israel struck a military base near the Syrian
coastal city of Latakia .
A military base near Damascus , according to a US official, was also targeted by Israel , CBS News reported. The target of the strike in Latakia,
according to the official, was "missiles and related equipment the
Israelis felt might be transferred to Hezbollah," CNN reported.