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Wepwawet
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Message 140 of 300 (335853)
07-27-2006 7:38 PM
Reply to: Message 136 by melatonin
07-27-2006 6:39 PM


Observation Post Attack
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205978,00.html?sPage=...
Headline: E-Mail Casts Doubt on Claims of Israel Targeting U.N. Peacekeepers
quote:
The email from Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener warned that the post had come under "unintentional" artillery fire and aerial bombing several times in the previous weeks, and that several Hezbollah positions were in the area of the patrol base.
"It is not safe or prudent for us to conduct normal patrol activities," wrote Kruedener in the July 18th e-mail. "(The artillery and aerial bombing) has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity."
Kruedener was one of four unarmed U.N. military observers killed in Tuesday's bombing.
From what I understand Hezbollah was all over that area using the presence of the UN observer base as protection from Israeli strikes. The presence of UN observers in no way implies a safe zone where combatants can run to rest and rearm during combat. Hezbollah deliberately endangered the post by operating in the area. This is war, not hide and seek.
Did you know that Hezbollah has attacked UN observers with small arms fire as well?
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Do you suppose they have justification?
Edited by Wepwawet, : No reason given.

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Wepwawet
Member (Idle past 6130 days)
Posts: 85
From: Texas
Joined: 04-05-2006


Message 142 of 300 (335867)
07-27-2006 8:43 PM
Reply to: Message 141 by melatonin
07-27-2006 8:07 PM


Re: Observation Post Attack
But they stuck a laser-guided bomb right on the observation post, if it was indirect, the bunker in which they hid would be relatively unharmed. It survived direct artillary fire.
What's your source for this attack being made with precision weapons? Last I heard they were unsure if it was an airstrike, artillery or both. I call BS on your contention that they would be safe in a bunker from direct artillery strikes. You don't understand the power of modern artillery and I rather doubt the post was hardened sufficiently to protect the men from a direct strike.
What do they have armies for? If they wanted to remove the hezbollah fighters, they should have sent in their men with tanks, instead of sacrificing the UN observers. What you are implicitly saying is that the lives of IDF soldiers were worth more than the unarmed UN observers.
And you are implying that the lives of the UN observers are worth more than those of the Israelis. I'm sorry, this is a war zone; anyone there assumes a level of risk. Unless you have some sort of proof that this strike deliberately targetted the post with the intention of killing the observers(aside from Kofi Annan's asinine comments), you might want to give the promised investigation a chance to reach a conclusion instead of swallowing the media accounts from reporters that weren't there.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.
- Henry Morris, Head of Institute for Creation Research

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