U.N. peacekeepers injured by Israeli airstrike

MrBrian

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Two Indian soldiers with the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon were wounded and their observation post damaged by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, a U.N. spokesman said

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14093565/

(second time in one week? I think they'll make it a hat-trick)

O-ren Ishii

Is Kofi Annan going to accuse Israel of another deliberate strike?

shiraz

O-ren Ishii wrote:

Is Kofi Annan going to accuse Israel of another deliberate strike?

Of course! He needs to cover his ass for not taking his soiliders out of a war zone, where they can not help or supervise anyone even if they really want to. So what's better way to do so than accusing everyone's "favorite" country for talking a deliberate action against the UN soliders? And it worked for him too, as you can see even in this very board.

monkey spanker

those peace keepers were doing such a great job too.

darkcrow

monkey spanker wrote:

those peace keepers were doing such a great job too.

these peace keepers are not peace keeprs. they are military observers. they are anarmed. their job is to see what both sides are doing and report it. a military analyist on bbc news last night said that israel deliberatly bombved the first UN post and murdered 4 UN observerers becuase if they did invade Lebanon then it would be staged in an area overlooked by the post. since the UN do not use secure radio channels, whatever they report about israeli troop build up could be intercepted by hezbulllah.

also how do you expect UN peacekeepers to keep both sides peaceful? i beleive that UN peacekeeprs are only allowed to shoot in self defence and also need a mandate... they were not given a mandate to activly disarm hezbollah.

If I was Kofi, I too would be screaming bloody murder against Israel. That outpost was clearly marked, on pretty much ever map and, I beleive, at least 6 calls were made to Israeli commanders that they are bombing too close to the post. The use of a precision missle would suggest that the Israelies were activly targeting that post.

chopitdown

darkcrow wrote:

these peace keepers are not peace keeprs. they are military observers. they are anarmed. their job is to see what both sides are doing and report it.

i can save the UN money and trouble...there is a war and people are dying on both sides... now bring the observers home.

shiraz

darkcrow wrote:

these peace keepers are not peace keeprs. they are military observers. they are anarmed. their job is to see what both sides are doing and report it.

And that's way. in a state of war where nothing can be supervised, the UN should have taken these soliders out of there.

darkcrow wrote:

a military analyist on bbc news last night said that israel deliberatly bombved the first UN post and murdered 4 UN observerers becuase if they did invade Lebanon then it would be staged in an area overlooked by the post. since the UN do not use secure radio channels, whatever they report about israeli troop build up could be intercepted by hezbulllah.

I guess he didn't hear or prefered to ignore this:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060718/mideast_lebanon_UN_060716/20060718/

Those were the words of one of the UN soliders BEFORE the incident which caused him to die. Note this: "as well as, most of the Hezbollah static positions in and around our patrol Base", and "This has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity".

darkcrow wrote:

also how do you expect UN peacekeepers to keep both sides peaceful? i beleive that UN peacekeeprs are only allowed to shoot in self defence and also need a mandate... they were not given a mandate to activly disarm hezbollah.

And that's why the UN officials had to moved out their soliders when it was clear they could not do anything, and the risk for them to stay was too high.

darkcrow wrote:

If I was Kofi, I too would be screaming bloody murder against Israel. That outpost was clearly marked, on pretty much ever map and, I beleive, at least 6 calls were made to Israeli commanders that they are bombing too close to the post. The use of a precision missle would suggest that the Israelies were activly targeting that post.

If I was Anan, I would have thought before saying such an irresponsible and demagogic thing before any investigationwas held. So why did he say Israel deliberately killed those UN people? to cover his ass. That letter (e-mail) is from July 18, it is clearly saying this specific UN force had nothing to do there anymore, and there is a big risk for them to stay where they are.

Again, I'm not justifaying those UN people's death, just proving the claim for deliberate IDF shoothing to be a false one.

Puck78

shiraz wrote:

And that's way. in a state of war where nothing can be supervised, the UN should have taken these soliders out of there.

no, this is wrong: for justice sake it is extremely important to have observers to record everything that is happening, else who will know what happened? With observers noone could say "i didn't know", and as you know, the excuse of "i didn't know" allowed the Holocaust to happen.

shiraz

Puck78 wrote:

no, this is wrong: for justice sake it is extremely important to have observers to record everything that is happening, else who will know what happened? With observers noone could say "i didn't know", and as you know, the excuse of "i didn't know" allowed the Holocaust to happen.

I disagree. This aint the same thing, now the media is playing the same role if not more. All I'm saying that they won't be able to report anything if they are dead, and the risk for that to happen was too big. Read that guy's e-mail. He was very clear about them weren't able to supervise anything anymore. So what's the point of leaving them there?