Iran's second provative move in two days?

Washington Post:

Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon struck a northern Israeli town overnight causing no injuries, an Israeli police spokesman said, the first such attacks by Lebanese militants in six months.

The attack came on the day before President Bush is scheduled to arrive in Israel in support of ongoing peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, the rockets struck a road leading into the western Galilee town of Shlomi, a few miles from the Lebanon border, said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. Shrapnel from one of the rockets struck a wall of a house, he said.

Rosenfeld and an army spokesman said it had not yet been determined where the rockets were made.

While Palestinian militants have conducted daily rocket attacks on Israel in recent weeks from the Gaza Strip--where Israel's army has launched a series of deadly raids--Israel's northern border has been largely quiet since the war with Hezbollah militants based in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

During that conflict, Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets at northern Israeli towns, killing 40 Israeli civilians and causing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the region for several weeks. More than 1,000 Lebanese, the majority of them civilians, were killed during the conflict, along with 119 Israeli soldiers.

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Iran appears to be really bugged by the President's visit. Firsts they stage a fake attack on US ships and now they have their proxies in Lebanon fire a couple of rockets int Israel. Both attempts are in hopes of provoking a minor crisis that will cause the President to cancel his trip. Ignoring them will probably annoy them the most. Both appear sophomoric and childish. It is nice to know that we can still annoy the jerks in charge of Iran.

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