Army Defuses Booby-Trapped Rockets Aimed at Israel
A Lebanese Army patrol on Wednesday defused three booby-trapped rockets that were set for launching from the southern region towards Israel, an Army communiqué said.
The communiqué said the three rockets were booby-trapped with TNT and set for launching "in an hour."
An Army sapper defused the rockets that would be destroyed in place, the communiqué added.
The rockets were found by Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers in the same area from which three rockets were fired at northern Israel earlier in the day.
Booby trapping the rockets apparently aims at targeting the side that would try to defuse them. It was the first attempt of its kind in south Lebanon since the 2006 war between Hizbullah and Israel.