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July 27, 2006
Suprised? more mushroom growing medium?
So many gullible people
Don’t believe the spin ? Check out this article written today. The us media is ignoring any reports that conflict with what the whitehouse wishes.
Don't be a sheep, look for yourself even our allies are calling the killing of UN observers deliberate.
Varsity New Zealand
http://www.varsity.co.nz/news/articles.asp?id=5738
An Irish army officer in south Lebanon warned Israeli forces six times that its strikes threatened the lives of the four observers, Ireland's Foreign Ministry said today.
Lieutenant Colonel John Molloy, the chief UN liaison officer with Israel in south Lebanon, told the Israelis on six separate occasions "that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff in south Lebanon," a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said.
"He warned: 'You have to address this problem or lives may be lost,"' the spokesman said.
In New York, Holl Lute and UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown telephoned Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman and his deputy half a dozen times to convey the same message, UN officials said.
"The base is clearly marked, a well-known. well-established position for a generation,"
The Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1831068,00.html?gusrc=rss
But questions remain about how the Israeli military could have hit such a high-profile, well-marked target so many times. Throughout Tuesday afternoon the UN observers reported 14 strikes near the post, mostly aerial bombs and some artillery shells.
"We reported 14 incidents of near misses, fire close to the position," said Milos Strugar, a UN official in Beirut. Other sources suggested there had been 17 bombs dropped within a kilometre of the position throughout the day.
The Unifil commander, Major General Alain Pellegrini, 59, who has served in international missions in Bosnia and Sarajevo, made several calls to a liaison team within the Israeli military, known as the foreign affairs unit, to say the strikes were dangerously close to his troops.
An Irish army officer in the area also warned the Israeli military six times that their attacks were putting UN observers at risk, Ireland's foreign ministry said yesterday. "On six separate occasions he was in contact with the Israelis to warn them that their bombardment was endangering the lives of UN staff in south Lebanon," a department of foreign affairs spokesman said. "He warned, 'You have to address this problem or lives may be lost.'"
But at 6.30pm four artillery shells landed inside the UN position at Khiyam. "It caused extensive material damage to the building," Mr Strugar said. An hour later, two bombs landed at the site. One fell within the UN position, the other hit the building, killing the four observers. "It completely destroyed the position," Mr Strugar said.
Within minutes the UN force dispatched a rescue team from an Indian battalion deployed nearby and again called the Israeli military to warn them the troops were heading to Khiyam, according to Mr Strugar. But the firing continued and rescuers were only able to retrieve three of the bodies. They returned early yesterday to find the building so badly damaged that it collapsed, making it even harder to retrieve the body of the fourth observer, still under the rubble last night.
The position at Khiyam was established in 1972, before the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) was deployed. It was a large building, with an observation post on the top floor and a prominent antenna. It carried clear UN markings and flags, and was brightly lit at night. It was also well known to the Israeli military because during the occupation of southern Lebanon, Israel's ally, the South Lebanon Army, ran a prison nearby notorious for its brutality.
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