| Author | Message | | PSCM USCGR | | Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
| | By the way...I closed my AOL account when I moved to Panama City | |  | | DanielDives | | Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject: |
| P,
Cool.
Care to answer the question? | | | | PSCM USCGR | | Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
| | Repeat the question and I'll try | | | | DanielDives | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:54 am Post subject: |
| P,
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
1 – The Christians despise Hezbollah, yet they let them roam around freely
2 – There’s no indication whatsoever where this picture is taken, but I’ll leave it at that.
3 – There’s no time stamp other than the word of the photographer, but I’ll leave it at that
4 – What we see is an AA-gun. A defensive weapon used to tackle attacking airplanes
5 – What we see is a rag-tag band of man/youngsters carrying assault rifles
No explain this to me:
- How many Katusya rockets does an AA-gun fire?
1 - The approximate reach of Katusya rockets fired is between 25/50 km [30 miles max]
2 - The effective reach of the assault weapons is less than 500 yards.
3 - Beirut is located about 100 km [60+ miles] from the Israeli border
- How does this pose a direct threat to Israel?
- Hezbollah is active and located in the South how does this explain bombing raids all over Lebanon, including Beirut?
-How come that Hezbollah with the most inaccurate weapon arsenal kills 19 Israelis while the IDF with precision-guided-munitions kills over 600 Lebanese civilians? | | | | Zinc Route | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: |
|  Being that Hezbollah is "in the South" how is it that they have a TV station , and that various media including NBC's Richard Engle got escorted by Hezbollah to inspect some of the damage - DAYS AGO   | | | | smallaxe | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject: |
| | Thanks for the explanation DD | | | | DanielDives | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
| Z
Human Rights Watch, after extensive investigation, has concluded that the Israeli military is guilty of war crimes. HRW says:
Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said in report released today. The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes.
The 50-page report, “Fatal Strikes: Israel’s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,” analyzes almost two dozen cases of Israeli air and artillery attacks on civilian homes and vehicles. Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July 12, most of them civilians.
“The pattern of attacks shows the Israeli military’s disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “Our research shows that Israel’s claim that Hezbollah fighters are hiding among civilians does not explain, let alone justify, Israel’s indiscriminate warfare.”
HRW's investigations do not bear out the excuse that the high civilian casualty rate is because of Hizbullah hiding among civilians:
' Human Rights Watch researchers found numerous cases in which the IDF launched artillery and air attacks with limited or dubious military objectives but excessive civilian cost. In many cases, Israeli forces struck an area with no apparent military target. In some instances, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians.
In one case, an Israeli air strike on July 13 destroyed the home of a cleric known to have sympathy for Hezbollah but who was not known to have taken any active part in the hostilities. Even if the IDF considered him a legitimate target (and Human Rights Watch has no evidence that he was), the strike killed him, his wife, their 10 children and the family’s Sri Lankan maid.
On July 16, an Israeli aircraft fired on a civilian home in the village of Aitaroun, killing 11 members of the al-Akhrass family, among them seven Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing in the village when the war began. Human Rights Watch independently interviewed three villagers who vigorously denied that the family had any connection to Hezbollah. Among the victims were children aged one, three, five and seven.
The Israeli government has blamed Hezbollah for the high civilian casualty toll in Lebanon, insisting that Hezbollah fighters have hidden themselves and their weapons among the civilian population. However, in none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in the report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah was operating in or around the area during or prior to the attack. '
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/02/lebano13902.htm | | | | PSCM USCGR | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: |
| | DD...why would you think I know anything about rockets and AA guns? I can't answer the question factually, so I won't even try guessing. | | | | Zinc Route | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
| | The rea;ity is that NO Lebanese government in over 23 years has had the power to do ANYTHING about Hezbollah- nor have they really tried Israel is left with few options - however those clamoring for a Cease Fire (being that they're winning) could probably have it just by releasing those two IDF soldiers - like today | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
| | Zinc...how chapped are your lips? | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
