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Title: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Lebanon Despite Cessation
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JERUSALEM- The Israeli army says its air force has carried out strikes in southern Lebanon, despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours. Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for two days starting early Monday in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike on a house that killed 56 Lebanese, almost all of them women and children. The announcement - made by a State Department spokesman with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem - appeared to reflect American pressure on Israel to make some concession after the strike. In addition to suspending air attacks, Israel will also allow the opening of corridors for Lebanese civilians who want to leave south Lebanon for the north and would maintain land, sea and air corridors for humanitarian assistance, officials said. Israeli officials confirmed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to an immediate 48-hour halt in the airstrikes beginning at 2 a.m. Monday while the military concludes its inquiry into the attack on the south Lebanese village of Qana. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. Israeli warplanes struck suspected guerrilla positions in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria just before the suspension took effect, security officials said. It was not known what was hit in the area, where radical Syrian-backed Palestinian factions have bases. The officials left open the possibility that Israel might hit targets to stop imminent attacks, and that the suspension could last less than 48 hours if the military completes its inquiry before then. Lebanon said the Israeli suspension was inadequate. "There is no cease-fire and there is no cessation of hostilities," Lebanese special envoy Nouhad Mahoud told reporters at the United Nations late Sunday. "We are looking for something much more than that." Hezbollah did not announce any reciprocal gestures and there were no reports of rocket attacks on Israel overnight. The bloodshed in Lebanon prompted Rice to cut short her Mideast mission and intensified world demands on Washington to back an immediate end to the fighting. In Jerusalem, Rice called the Qana bombing "awful" and said she will push for a cease-fire and a "lasting settlement" in the conflict through a U.N. Security Council resolution this week. It appeared to be her first real call for a quick end to the bloodshed. "I am convinced that only by achieving both will the Lebanese people be able to control their country and their future, and the people of Israel finally be able to live free of attack from terrorist groups in Lebanon," Rice told reporters Monday before departing for Washington. A three-story house on the outskirts of Qana was leveled when a missile crashed into it at 1 a.m. Red Cross officials said 56 were killed and police said 34 children and 12 adult women were among the dead. It was worst single strike since Israel's campaign in Lebanon began on July 12 when Hezbollah militants crossed the border into Israel and abducted two soldiers. The attack in Qana brought Lebanon's death toll to more than 510 and pushed American peace efforts to a crucial juncture, as fury at the United States flared in Lebanon. The Beirut government said it would no longer negotiate over a U.S. peace package without an unconditional cease-fire. In Qana, workers pulled dirt-covered bodies of young boys and girls - dressed in the shorts and T-shirts they had been sleeping in - out of the mangled wreckage of the building. Bodies were carried in blankets. Two extended families, the Shalhoubs and the Hashems, had gathered in the house for shelter from another night of Israeli bombardment in the border area when the strike brought the building down. "I was so afraid. There was dirt and rocks and I couldn't see. Everything was black," said 13-year-old Noor Hashem, who survived, although her five siblings did not. She was pulled out of the ruins by her uncle, whose wife and five children also died. Israel apologized for the deaths but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas, saying they had fired rockets into northern Israel from near the building. President Bush repeated his call for a "sustainable peace" and said: America mourns the loss of innocent life, those tragic occasions when innocent people are killed." Before the suspension of airstrikes was announced, Olmert told Rice the campaign to crush Hezbollah could last up to two weeks more. "We will not stop this battle, despite the difficult incidents this morning," he told his Cabinet after the strike, according to a participant. "If necessary, it will be broadened without hesitation." The U.N. Security Council met in an emergency session Sunday and approved a presidential statement that called for an end to violence in Lebanon and deplored Israel's attack on Qana. But it stopped short of condemning Israel. After news of the deaths emerged, Rice telephoned Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and said she would stay in Jerusalem to continue work on a peace package, rather than make a planned visit to Beirut on Sunday. Saniora said he told her not to come. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who earlier supported the U.S. stance, said Washington must work faster to put together the broader deal it seeks. But Saniora said talk of a larger peace package must wait until the firing stops. "We will not negotiate until the Israeli war stops shedding the blood of innocent people," he told a gathering of foreign diplomats. But he underlined that Lebanon stands by ideas for disarming Hezbollah that it put forward earlier this week and that Rice praised. He took a tough line and hinted that any Hezbollah response to the airstrike at the village of Qana was justified. "As long as the aggression continues there is response to be exercised," he said, praising Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah for his "sacrifices." Lebanon demanded an international probe. Hezbollah said on its Al-Manar television that it will retaliate, vowing, "The massacre at Qana will not go unanswered." It hit northern Israel on Sunday with 157 rockets - the highest one-day total during the offensive - with one Israeli moderately wounded and 12 others lightly hurt, medics said. Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, demanded an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon, warning the Muslim world will "not forgive" nations that stand in the way of stopping the fighting. Lebanese anger was heightened by memories of a 1996 Israeli artillery bombardment that hit a U.N. base in Qana, killing more than 100 Lebanese who had taken refuge from fighting. That attack sparked an international outcry that forced a halt to an Israeli offensive. In Beirut, some 5,000 protesters gathered downtown, at one point attacking a U.N. building and burning American flags. They shouted "Destroy Tel Aviv!" and chanted for Hezbollah's ally Syria to hit Israel. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians stormed a U.N. compound and smashed its windows Sunday during a protest against Israeli airstrikes. Security officials fired into the air to disperse them. Images of children's bodies tangled in the building's ruins, being carried away on blankets or wrapped in plastic sheeting were aired on Arab news networks. In Qana, Khalil Shalhoub was helping pull out the dead until he saw his brother's body taken out on a stretcher. "Why are they killing us? What have we done?" he screamed. Israel said Hezbollah had fired more than 40 rockets from Qana before the airstrike, including several from near the building that was bombed. At a news conference in Tel Aviv Sunday night, military officers showed aerial footage taken two days ago of Katyusha rockets being fired near houses in Qana, and of a Katyusha launcher firing missiles and then being driven into Qana and hidden inside a house. Foreign Ministry official Gideon Meir accused Hezbollah of "using their own civilian population as human shields." Israel said residents of Qana had been warned to leave. But Shalhoub and others in the village said residents were too terrified to take the road out of the village. More than 750,000 Lebanese have fled their homes in the fighting. But many thousands more are still believed holed up in the south, taking refuge in schools, hospitals or basements of apartment buildings amid the fighting - many of them too afraid to flee. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr disputed allegations that Hezbollah was firing missiles from Qana. "What do you expect Israel to say? Will it say that it killed 40 children and women?" he told Al-Jazeera television. Before dawn Sunday, Israeli ground forces backed by heavy artillery fire crossed the border and clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas in the Taibeh Project area, about two miles inside Lebanon. Hezbollah said two of its fighters were killed. Eight Israeli soldiers were wounded. Some 460 Lebanese, mostly civilians, had been killed in the campaign through Saturday, according to the Health Ministry - before the attacks on Qana. Thirty-three Israeli soldiers have died, and Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel have killed 18 civilians, Israel said.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=nation_world&id=4416257 (Jerusalem-AP, July 31, 2006) - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said. The airstrikes near the village of Taibe were meant to protect ground forces operating in the area and were not targeting anyone or anything specific, the army said. Meanwhile, Hezbollah guerrillas attacked an Israeli tank in southern Lebanon, wounding three soldiers, the military said. The attack occurred near the villages of Kila and Taibe on border, where Israeli ground forces have been fighting Hezbollah guerrillas for nearly two weeks. Israel Radio also reported that Hezbollah rockets hit the northern town of Kiryat Shemona. No casualties were reported in the rocket attacks, the radio said. Hours before the fighting started up again, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the U.N. Security Council to arrange for a cease-fire agreement by week's end that would include the formation of an international force to help Lebanese forces control southern Lebanon. But Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz made clear in a speech to parliament that Israel would not agree to an immediate cease-fire and had plans to expand its operation in Lebanon. "It's forbidden to agree to an immediate cease-fire," Peretz told parliament, as several Arab legislators heckled him and demanded an immediate halt to the offensive. "Israel will expand and strengthen its activities against the Hezbollah." Israel's top ministers were to discuss expanding the army's ground operation at a meeting later Monday, while thousands of reserve soldiers trained for the possibility that they will be sent into Lebanon to participate in the battle, now 20 days old. It was unclear whether the senior ministers would approve a broader ground assault at their meeting, defense officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Israel had announced the suspension of airstrikes for 48 hours starting at 2 a.m. Monday. But Hezbollah legislator Hassan Fadlallah had questioned Israel's motivation, telling Lebanese television it was just "an attempt to absorb international indignation over the Qana massacre." The bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday led to demands around the world for an immediate cease-fire. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Rice over the weekend that Israel would need 10 to 14 more days to finish its offensive, and Justice Minister Haim Ramon told Army Radio on Monday that he did not think the fighting was over yet. "I'm convinced that we won't finish this war until it's clear that Hezbollah has no more abilities to attack Israel from south Lebanon. This is what we are striving for," Ramon said. The stunning bloodshed in Qana increased international pressure on Washington to back an immediate end to the fighting and prompted Rice to cut short her Mideast mission to return home Monday. In a nationally televised speech before leaving Israel, Rice said she will seek international consensus for a cease-fire and a "lasting settlement" in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel through a U.N. Security Council resolution this week. "I am convinced that only by achieving both will the Lebanese people be able to control their country and their future, and the people of Israel finally be able to live free of attack from terrorist groups in Lebanon," Rice said. An Israeli army spokesman left open the possibility that Israel might still hit targets to stop imminent attacks on the country, despite the airstrike suspension. He also made clear the Israelis could end the suspension depending on "operational developments" in Lebanon. The army said that the temporary cessation of aerial activity would allow the opening of corridors for Lebanese civilians who want to leave south Lebanon for the north and would maintain land, sea and air corridors for humanitarian assistance. By early afternoon Monday, roads from villages into the port city of Tyre and heading north along the coast were packed with thousands of refugees in pick-up trucks and cars. With many of the main roads too shattered for use, cars took to dirt side roads, still waving white flags out their windows or covering the vehicles roofs with white sheets. Lebanese Red Cross teams escorted by U.N. observers went to the village of Srifa to dig up more than 50 bodies believed still buried under rubble since Israeli strikes wiped out an entire neighborhood on July 19. The bodies have began decomposing, the Red Cross said. The largest death toll from a single Israeli strike before Sunday was around a dozen, and the Qana attack, where at least 34 children and 12 women died, stunned Lebanese. Heightening the anger were memories of a 1996 Israeli artillery bombardment that hit a U.N. base in Qana, killing more than 100 Lebanese who had taken refuge there from fighting. That attack sparked an international outcry that forced a halt to an Israeli offensive. Hezbollah vowed retaliation on its Al-Manar television, saying: "The massacre at Qana will not go unanswered." It hit northern Israel on Sunday with 157 rockets - the highest one-day total during the offensive - with one Israeli moderately wounded and 12 others lightly hurt, medics said. Israel apologized for the deaths and promised an investigation, but said Hezbollah had fired more than 40 rockets from Qana before the airstrike, including several from near the building that was bombed. Foreign Ministry official Gideon Meir accused Hezbollah of "using their own civilian population as human shields." More than 750,000 Lebanese have fled their homes in the fighting. But many thousands more are still believed holed up in the south - many of them too afraid to flee on roads heavily hit by Israeli strikes. The attack on Qana brought Lebanon's death toll to more than 510 and pushed American peace efforts to a crucial juncture, as fury at the United States flared in Lebanon. The Beirut government said it would no longer negotiate over a U.S. peace package without an unconditional cease-fire. At the United Nations, the Security Council approved a statement expressing "extreme shock and distress" at the bloodshed and calling for an end to violence, stopping short of a demand for an immediate cease-fire. In a jab at the United States, U.N. chief Kofi Annan told the council in unusually frank terms that he was "deeply dismayed" his previous calls for a halt were ignored. "Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control," he said. After news of the deaths emerged, Rice telephoned Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and said she would stay in Jerusalem to continue work on a peace package, rather than make a planned Sunday visit to Beirut. Saniora said he told her not to come.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Southern Lebanese
Head North During Israel's Halt to Airstrikes Monday, July 31, 2006
Associated Press QANA, Lebanon — Thousands of civilians trapped in south
Lebanon's war zone for three weeks made an exodus for the north Monday, taking
advantage of Israel's 48-hour pause in airstrikes to flee. Hezbollah suggested
it too would hold off on rocket fire into Israel as long as the warplanes were
not flying. Despite the pause, warplanes struck near the village of Taibeh
to cover troops forces still battling Hezbollah guerrillas in the Israeli
military's newest ground incursion there, launched over the weekend.
Fighting was heavy in the northeast corner of south Lebanon around Taibeh and
other border villages. Constant Israeli artillery blasts — not covered under the
air halt — shook the hills. Hezbollah guerrillas in the area fired a volley of
rockets at the nearby Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, their first since Israel's
suspension began. • CountryWatch: Israel | Lebanon | Syria | Iran On the
Mediterranean coast, a Lebanese solider outside the southern port of Tyre was
killed by Israeli fire, security officials said — though it was not clear what
the blast was from. Still, the suspension of the air campaign brought
relative quiet to much of southern Lebanon. With the fear of bombardment
eased, Lebanese Red Cross teams escorted by U.N. observers went to the village
of Srifa to dig up more than 50 bodies believed still buried under rubble since
Israeli strikes wiped out an entire neighborhood on July 19. The bodies have
begun decomposing, the Red Cross said. Aid groups were also scrambling to
take advantage to rush badly needed food, medicine and blankets to refugees and
residents in towns and cities of the south, where supplies have been dwindling.
Some convoys headed south, but humanitarian officials said the pause, which
began only hours after it was announced, caught them off-guard. • Visit
FOXNews.com's Mideast Center for more in-depth coverage. "We're trying to
get to as many places as we can, and we're counting on it being safe for us,"
said Mona Hammam, the top U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon. Israel
called the halt under U.S. pressure amid worldwide outrage over a strike Sunday
morning that leveled a house in Qana, killing at least 56 people — mostly women
and children — who had taken refuge there. It was the deadliest single strike in
the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon, aimed at reining in Hezbollah guerrillas.
The pause meant the first relief for thousands of Lebanese who have been
hiding in their homes, in schools or hospitals in the dozens of villages that
dot the mountainous south. While huge numbers fled already, those that remained
were mostly the old, the sick and those too afraid to risk the drive out on
roads pounded by intense Israeli bombardment. Many have not stepped out of their
shelters for days. The strikes of the past weeks have also prevented rescue
crews from clearing rubble of buildings to find the dead. The 48-hour halt could
mean a big jump in Lebanon's death toll. So far, 519 are known to have been
killed, according to the Health Ministry's count of bodies. But the health
minister said Sunday that it could jump to more than 750 because of the missing
and those buried under wreckage. Early Monday, hours after Israel called the
pause, few southerners took to the roads, likely wary over whether the news was
true. But soon they saw their chance to run. By early afternoon, the roads
from villages into the port city of Tyre, then from Tyre heading north along the
coast were packed were pick-up trucks and cars carrying refugees. Not all
were leaving, particularly in Qana. Hassan Faraj shut down his grocery store,
piled his wife and child into a van and headed north towards the mountains,
where his mother lives — but he was planning to return. "My mother is very
unwell. I must go and see her. If my wife wants to stay there for the sake of
the boy, I will come back tomorrow," he said. With many of the main roads
too shattered for use, cars took to dirt side roads, still waving white flags
out their windows or covering the vehicles roofs with white sheets. On a long
dirt-road detour north of Tyre, cars were piled up in a traffic jam. The few gas
stations that were open had lines of cars. Hezbollah legislator Hassan
Fadlallah, speaking for the guerrilla organization, raised the possibility that
Hezbollah might stop firing rockets as long as warplanes were not striking.
"Shelling [Israeli] settlements is a Lebanese reaction to [Israel] shelling
Lebanese civilians," Fadlallah told LBC television. "When Israel stops its
aggression on the south, on Lebanon, on civilians ... naturally this reaction
could stop. But has Israel stopped its aggression? It said it has suspended air
operations, it did not suspend artillery or naval shelling." Fadlallah — a
former news director for Hezbollah's TV station Al-Manar — accused Israel of
using the suspension as "an attempt to absorb international indignation over the
Qana massacre." Late Sunday, Israeli warplanes attacked for the second time
in the last few days a road between Lebanon and Syria just outside the Lebanese
border post at Masnaa, severing the main artery between the two capitals.
Israeli jets also carried out two raids at approximately 1:30 a.m. local time
near the village of Yanta, Lebanese security officials said because they were
not authorized to give statements to the media. The village lies about 3 miles
from the border with Syria and 34 miles southeast of the capital, Beirut. It
was not known what was hit in the Yanta area, where radical Syrian-backed
Palestinian factions maintain bases in the mountains abutting the Syrian border.
An Israeli army spokesman said the pause began a half hour later, at 2 a.m.
Israeli officials earlier left open the possibility that Israel might hit
targets to stop imminent attacks on Israel, and that the suspension could last
less than 48 hours if the military completes its inquiry into Sunday's incident
in Qana before then.
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"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
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Lebanese Civilians Bear the Brunt of Israel's Destruction by Dahr Jamail SIDON, Lebanon - The Israeli attack on Qana has taken the biggest toll of the war, but it is only one of countless lethal attacks on civilians in Lebanon. Large numbers fled the south after the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning of attacks. Others have been unable to leave, often because they have not found the means. The Israelis have taken that to mean that they are therefore Hezbollah. Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced on Israeli army radio Thursday that "all those in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah." Justifying the collective punishment of people in southern Lebanon, Ramon added, "In order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops move in." This policy explains the large number of wounded in the hospitals of Sidon in the south. Wounded people from southern Lebanon narrate countless instances of indiscriminate attacks by the Israeli military. Thirty-six-year-old Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver whose arm was blown off by an Israeli rocket, told IPS that his ambulance was hit while trying to rescue civilians whose home had just been bombed. "Last Sunday people came to us and asked us to go help some people after their home was bombed by the Israelis," he said from his bed in Hamoudi Hospital in Sidon, the largest city in southern Lebanon. "We found one of them, without his legs, lying in a garden, so we tried to take him to the nearest hospital." On the way to the hospital, an Israeli Apache helicopter hit his ambulance with a rocket, severely injuring him and the four people in the back of the vehicle, he said. "So then another ambulance tried to reach us to rescue us, but it too was bombed by an Apache, killing everyone inside it," he said. "Then it was a third ambulance which finally managed to rescue us." Khuder, who had shrapnel wounds all over his body, said "this is a crime, and I want people in the West to know the Israelis do not differentiate between innocent people and fighters. They are committing acts of evil.. They are attacking civilians, and they are criminals." At Labib Medical Center in Sidon, countless survivors of Israeli bombardment had similar stories to tell. Sixteen-year-old Ibrahim al-Hama told IPS that he and his friends were hit by an Israeli bomb while they were swimming in a river near a village north of Tyre. "Two of my friends were killed, along with a woman," said al-Hama. "Why did they bomb us?" In an adjacent room, a man whose wife and two small children were recovering from wounds suffered in Israeli bombing told IPS that they had left their village near the border because the bombings had become fierce, and the Israeli military had dropped leaflets ordering them to leave. "We ran out of food, and the children were hungry, so they left with my wife and her sister in a car which followed a Red Crescent ambulance, while another car took the two other sisters of my wife," he said. "They reached Kafra village, and an F-16 bombed the car with my wife's two sisters. They are dead." Such killings have been common throughout the south. On July 23, a family left their village after Israelis dropped leaflets ordering them out. Their car carried a white flag, but was still bombed by an Israeli plane. Three in the car were killed. The same day, three of 19 passengers in a van heading away from the southern village Tiri were killed when it was bombed by an Israeli plane. A 43-year-old man from the village Durish Zhair south of Tyre lay at the Labib Medical Center with multiple shrapnel wounds and half his body blackened by fire. "Please tell them to stop using white phosphorous," he said. "The Israelis must stop these attacks. Do not allow the Israelis to continue murdering us." He and his family were bombed in their home. Zhair said his family were scattered in hospitals and refugee centers in Sidon and Beirut. But in the hospital hallway outside his room, head nurse of the hospital Gemma Sayer said "all of his family is dead. We cannot tell him yet because he is so badly injured." United Nations forces have been targeted again by the Israelis. Two soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon were wounded after their observation post was damaged in an Israeli air strike. Last week, an Israeli missile killed four UN observers, an attack that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described as "apparently deliberate." Thousands of angry protesters stormed the UN building in Beirut Sunday after at least 34 children and 20 adults were killed inside a shelter targeted by an Israeli air strike in the southern town Qana. As Israeli military drones buzzed over the capital city, smoke was seen rising from the building as UN troops struggled to control the crowds. Efforts to evacuate the wounded in Qana have been hindered because roads around the town have been destroyed by air strikes. The Israeli military refused to take responsibility for the Qana deaths, because they said Hezbollah had used the village to launch rockets. Lebanese President Emile Lahoud told reporters Sunday that the Qana attack was a "disgrace" and that there was no chance for peace talks until an immediate cease-fire was called. "Israel's leaders think of nothing but destruction, they do not think of peace." Prime Minister Fouad Siniora described the bombing in Qana as a "war crime." At least 600 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 51 Israelis have been killed since the conflict began. (Inter Press Service)
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#4. To: robin (#3)
The ZioNazis are no good for nothing LIARS!
"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Lord Keynes
#5. To: All, *US is Proxy State For Israel* (#2)
Fox news has harder hitting articles than Dahr Jamail's editorial. That doesn't happen very often. Coulter and Rice are not yet satisfied with the amount of Lebanese children's blood flowing in southern Lebanon, but we don't always get what we want, right when we want it. Which reminds me, keep practicing tying those knots.
The pause meant the first relief for thousands of Lebanese who have been hiding in their homes, in schools or hospitals in the dozens of villages that dot the mountainous south. While huge numbers fled already, those that remained were mostly the old, the sick and those too afraid to risk the drive out on roads pounded by intense Israeli bombardment. Many have not stepped out of their shelters for days.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#4)
Even Fox News is disgusted, which leaves only Coulter, Rush, Rice and Savage cheering for more white phosphorus bombings of children in Lebanon.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#7. To: robin (#5)
Which reminds me, keep practicing tying those knots.
"Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Lord Keynes
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)
oh good, visual instructions!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/31/mideast.main/index.html In its agreement, Israel had reserved the right to hit targets that it considered an immediate threat. But the Israeli army said Monday's strikes near the Lebanese village of Tayba were meant to protect ground forces operating in the border area and were not aimed at specific targets. The Israeli military expressed regret that one of the strikes hit a Lebanese military vehicle outside Tyre, Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces said it was unclear how many people were killed. Earlier, a senior Lebanese Interior Ministry official said the airstrike killed an aide to a Lebanese general and wounded three soldiers. The general survived the attack, the official said. The IDF said it thought the car was carrying a senior Hezbollah militant involved in directing rocket fire on Israel. Three Israeli soldiers in the area suffered minor injuries after Hezbollah fighters hit their tank with a missile, an Israeli army spokesman said. The tank was responding to another Hezbollah attack on an Israeli armored personnel carrier, the spokesman said.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#10. To: robin (#6)
Bill O'Really stills thinks everything in the ME is due to our heroic effort to combat terrorism in this country. I think he should check the kool aid he is always passing out to others.
Even Fox News is disgusted,
#11. To: Cynicom (#10)
I wonder if Tony Shalhoub of "Monk" is related to any of these Shalhoubs. O'Reilly, Coulter, Rush and Savage are like desperate whores, willing to say and do anything for attention.
Two extended families, the Shalhoubs and the Hashems, had gathered in the house for shelter from another night of Israeli bombardment in the border area when the strike brought the building down.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
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