Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Caves, military use of Message-ID: <9867@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 13:06:32 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 30 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) [ Feed the terrorists to the lineeater] Since I have noticed at least posters in this newsgroup from Israel, I thought that this would be a good place to ask the following questions. I have seen reports in the press that, during the Israeli "invasion"/ "police action"/"Peace for Gallilee"/whatever in Lebanon, the IDF discovered huge cave(s) in which the Soviets had stockpiled huge quantities of weapons. Unfortunately, I have seen very few details about this in the American press. I've read that the cave(s) had underwater access to the sea and had enough equipment to outfit from 1.5 to 3 divisions. Does anyone out there have more and better details? It would be interesting to know what kinds of equipment was found and in what quantities. Did Israel know about the cave(s) before the invasion? Was this the real reason for the operation? Did the US know? (I read that the US did NOT know about it, but was that true?) What kind of cave(s) were they. Were they natural, man-made, or both? How big were they? Etc. What about caves in other areas of military significance? Germany? Central America? The USSR? Etc.??? We've read about the Viet Cong's use of caves in Vietnam, what other historical battles involved the use of caves? Is that enough questions? Jim Pritchett UUCP: {attctc|texbell}!letni!caleb!jdp