Israelis bomb UN observers

[TAE]

The INdies web front page has Annan saying it was a deliberate attack:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1197718.ece

Of course it was a deliberate attack.

The israelis are bombing just about anything which is near a launch site. Note the word 'near'. They are not bombing the actual launch site and hitting building by accident, but rather they are bombing whichever building was nearest to the launch site, regardless of whether it has/had anything to do with Hezbollah or not.

The victims included observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, UN and Lebanese military officials said.

The IDF really need to be careful about this.

 

[moono]

Careful ? Too late for 'careful'. It was a premeditated murder of UN personnel. It's time for arrests, not 'careful'.

Olmert is an IOF stooge. He is waving a 'disengagement' policy which wasn't his at an IOF which has been planning slaughter for years. They are out of his control. All that will stop them will be hundreds of their soldiers in body bags.

 

[TAE]

Careful ? Too late for 'careful'. It was a premeditated murder of UN personnel. It's time for arrests, not 'careful'.

I think China might be tempted to skip the formalities and take more (erm) 'direct action' behind the scenes.

 

[Loki]

From the Beeb:

UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.

The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.

...

Had Israel responded to the requests, "rather than deliberately ignoring them", the observers would still be alive, a diplomat familiar with the report said.



(my bolding).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5217176.stm

 

[moono]

Juan Cole thinks that something was about to go down that the fascists didn't want observed.
http://www.juancole.com/

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

BTW, the UN ordered Hezbollah to disband or be disbanded, in Resolution 1559:

http://www.mideastweb.org/1559.htm

 

[atitlan]

BTW, the UN ordered Hezbollah to disband or be disbanded, in Resolution 1559:

http://www.mideastweb.org/1559.htm

Which is all very nice, but since when has Hezbollah been a member of the UN? A resolution aimed at a non-state agency is even more useless than one aimed at a state ....


... like Israel, for example.

 

[TAE]

BTW, the UN ordered Hezbollah to disband or be disbanded, in Resolution 1559:

http://www.mideastweb.org/1559.htm

Indeed. Did they authorise anyone outside Lebanon to do so?

 

[TAE]

From the Beeb:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5217176.stm

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has expressed "deep regrets" over the deaths.

Israel is conducting an investigation into the incident.

It has rejected accusations made by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the targeting of the UN position was "apparently deliberate".

White House spokesman Tony Snow said "something went really wrong" to cause the deaths, but also said there was no reason to suggest the bombing was deliberate.

Do they really still expect people to believe this shit? The 'accidental' bombing of the embassy of China in Belgrade was more plausable!

 

[moono]

Opposition parties have reacted angrily to a report in The Daily Telegraph newspaper that two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with GBU 28 laser-guided bombs landed at Prestwick Airport en-route to Israel from the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5218036.stm

Perhaps the Zionists used some on the UN observers. Just testing like.

 

[TAE]

Considering how many tries it took them to actually hit the outpost ...

 

[Jonti]

BTW, the UN ordered Hezbollah to disband or be disbanded, in Resolution 1559:

http://www.mideastweb.org/1559.htm

But did not suggest the indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of Lebanese as a means to achive this, you utter cock.

The attack on Iraq was illegal, according to the UN. Does that bother you?

 

[Jonti]

It seems the UN had the foresight to record the attack on video. Not that anyone is in charge of Israel to bring about any arrests.

But why murder the observers? What atrocities and warcrimes are now taking place, that UN observers must be the first to die? Or what?

 

[moono]

Here's a scenario;

The Americans said ' Pay attention chaps, ( or some colloquial equivalent) here are the precision munitions you asked for. Now go and drop them on those troublemaking bastards, our common enemy ! '

and the Israelis thought they meant the UN.

 

[david dissadent]

It seems the UN had the foresight to record the attack on video. Not that anyone is in charge of Israel to bring about any arrests.

But why murder the observers? What atrocities and warcrimes are now taking place, that UN observers must be the first to die? Or what?

Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres, or in this case discourage others; from taking up the Israeli offer of peace keeper in south Lebanon.

 

[moono]

Judging by the number of Zionist stormtroopers in body bags today the peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon might well be Hizb Allah.




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[dweller]

more detail on this story here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2287599,00.html

The Irish Republic filed an official protest with Israel, in which it said that Lieutenant-Colonel John Molloy, its senior Lebanon peacekeeper and a key UN figure liaising with the Israel Defence Forces, had given six specific phone warnings about the Khiam post.


and here
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/death-in-the-bunker--israel-accused-of-deliberate-attack/2006/07/26/1153816254818.html

it was unclear how or why an Israeli aircraft came to bomb a clearly marked UN position which should have been indicated as exempt from attack.

"This position has been there for 20 years," the UN source said. "In the old days that was the front line. Israel knows these positions and they have had two weeks to zero in on this area and register targets and where you

don't want to hit. That's standard behaviour.

"They [the bunkers] are big white things - you can see them for miles and they are lit up at night.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Indeed. Did they authorise anyone outside Lebanon to do so?

Seems like they waited a couple of years for Lebanon to take care of it, and when they didn't, well, they decided to do it for them.

 

[lostexpectation]

I read that the UNIFIL mandate expires next Monday...

thats very interesting, it gives all new perspective to the timing of this, oh I do think it was last month, but doesn't seem to have mentioned by any experts analysing why.

I also read that some think its about water, as ever, that why they are going as far as that river, or atleast the 6 mile barrier where they may be able to access the fresh water.

 

[muthecow]

I think China might be tempted to skip the formalities and take more (erm) 'direct action' behind the scenes.

china's getting pissed. if they do get involved will hte states retaliate? should we be fleeing to timbuctoo?

 

[Jessiedog]

china's getting pissed.[/url] if they do get involved will hte states retaliate? should we be fleeing to timbuctoo?

No.

China will proceed in a rational and measured fashion. China will not stir up the hornets nest. But you're right, China's pissed.



Woof

 

[Jessiedog]

From "Harry", in today's South China Morning Post (or is that "Mourning"?)

Woof

 

[TAE]

Seems like they waited a couple of years for Lebanon to take care of it, and when they didn't, well, they decided to do it for them.

Illegally? They may call it self defence, but with self defence there is always the proviso of proportionality.

 

[moono]

International law allows self-defense but does NOT allow pre-emptive attack as self-defense when it may constitute a war in itself.

 

[nino_savatte]

BTW, the UN ordered Hezbollah to disband or be disbanded, in Resolution 1559:

http://www.mideastweb.org/1559.htm

Why have you posted this diversion? The UN troops who were killed by the IDF, contacted them 10 times and you post shite like this?

Derailing bollocks from the king of thread disruption.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Illegally? They may call it self defence, but with self defence there is always the proviso of proportionality.

UNIFIL has been useless. And if Israel doesn't clean up Hezbollah now, they run the risk of having to try and do the same thing after Hezbollah's masters in Iran acquire nuclear weapons.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

International law allows self-defense but does NOT allow pre-emptive attack as self-defense when it may constitute a war in itself.

This isn't preemptive attack. Hezbollah struck first.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Canadian soldier who was one of the four UN observers killed, sent out emails reporting that Hezbollah was essentially hiding behind UN skirts in the area, with bases in the immediate area of the observation post. He reported that due to the fighting and attacks coming from Hezbollah, it was too dangerous for the UN troops to leave the post.

A commentator in Canada, Gen. Lewis Mackenzie, also has talked about how Hezbollah was using the UN as a shield in the area.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

(Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew) Brzezinski stated: "I hate to say this but I will say it. I think what the Israelis are doing today for example in Lebanon is in effect, in effect -- maybe not in intent -- the killing of hostages. The killing of hostages."

"Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing."

Source

 

[Spion]

The Canadian soldier who was one of the four UN observers killed, sent out emails reporting that Hezbollah was essentially hiding behind UN skirts in the area, with bases in the immediate area of the observation post. He reported that due to the fighting and attacks coming from Hezbollah, it was too dangerous for the UN troops to leave the post.

A commentator in Canada, Gen. Lewis Mackenzie, also has talked about how Hezbollah was using the UN as a shield in the area.

Source, please. I mean, what did he actually say, this soldier? 'Essentially hiding behind UN skirts' is a rather vague sitrep for a military man.

Does the soldier give any clue why the Israelis shelled them for a whole day and then dropped a guided missile down the chimney after receiving 10 or more phone calls asking them to desist?

The Israelis have a history of contempt for the UN, from the killing of Count Bernadotte onwards.