Israel troops ignored UN plea before killing them

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  • danmac
    danmac Posts: 387
    binauralsounds wrote:
    Absolutely right. Again, this terrorist tactic is known as "hugging" and they knew EXACTLY what they were doing!!
    PPL, PLEASE WAKE UP!


    So the United Nations has to bow to the Israeli army and abandon a post that has stood for 20 years?
    A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects
    are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
    god-fearing and pious: Aristotle

    Viva Zapatista!
  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    danmac wrote:
    So the United Nations has to bow to the Israeli army and abandon a post that has stood for 20 years?


    When that post has become a haven for hezbollah, the UN guys and their post are no longer observing, they are involved. By their own choice? Certainly not. By Israel's choice? Certainly not. Who is it hiding near "safe zones" whilst launching their own from 30 yds away? OH yeaa, hezbollah. ;)
    Why go home

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  • danmac
    danmac Posts: 387
    PaperPlates wrote:
    When that post has become a haven for hezbollah, the UN guys and their post are no longer observing, they are involved. By their own choice? Certainly not. By Israel's choice? Certainly not. Who is it hiding near "safe zones" whilst launching their own from 30 yds away? OH yeaa, hezbollah. ;)


    500 metres away, the official reports stated.
    A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects
    are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
    god-fearing and pious: Aristotle

    Viva Zapatista!
  • dkst0426
    dkst0426 Posts: 523
    What is this about 500 meters?
    Annan's Claims On Casualties May Unravel
    A Canadian U.N. observer, one of four killed at a UNIFIL position near the southern Lebanese town of Khiyam on Tuesday, sent an e-mail to his former commander, a Canadian retired major-general, Lewis MacKenzie, in which he wrote that Hezbollah fighters were "all over" the U.N. position, Mr. MacKenzie said. Hezbollah troops, not the United Nations, were Israel's target, the deceased observer wrote.

    Mr. MacKenzie, who after retiring from the Canadian military became a politician, had a very different interpretation. "I happen to know" the now-deceased Canadian U.N. observer, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, Mr. MacKenzie told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a radio interview yesterday.

    "We've received e-mails from him a few days ago and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position ‘for tactical necessity — not being targeted,'" Mr. MacKenzie said he wrote.

    In one such e-mail, obtained by The New York Sun, Hess-von Kruedener wrote about heavy IDF artillery and aerial bombardment "within 2 meters of our position." The Israeli shooting, he added, "has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity."

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