Posted on 08/28/2006 7:50:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
War In The Middle East: U.N. peacekeepers may have done more than just look the other way as Hezbollah created its armed state within a state. The blue helmets may have served as Hezbollah's military intelligence.
Real-time battlefield intelligence is a keystone of 21st century warfare, especially when you're up against a terrorist enemy that has had six years to construct hardened underground bunkers and tunnels from which to fight while not having to obey the rules of war.
The situation gets complicated and your task becomes harder when that real-time intelligence is being provided to that enemy, Hezbollah, by uniformed observers who are supposed to be neutral: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Writing in the Sept. 4 issue of The Weekly Standard, Lori Lowenthal Marcus reviewed the UNIFIL postings on its Web site (un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil) during Hezbollah's war with Israel. She documented how UNIFIL listed Israeli positions and troop movements on a regular basis, sometimes within 30 minutes of their deployment.
UNIFIL has observed much but done little since Israel withdrew totally from Lebanon in 2000, except to interfere in Israel's ability to defend itself.
As Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the U.N., noted recently: "Hezbollah would launch military attacks 50 meters from a UNIFIL outpost, Israel would shoot back and UNIFIL would protest against the Israeli response. Now it has been caught actively aiding Israel's attackers."
Marcus' review of UNIFIL's Web postings show that it was daily revealing the towns Israeli soldiers had moved into, the positions from which they were firing, and when and how they had entered Lebanon. These postings described the nature of their weaponry and materiel, and the locations of Israeli Defense Force safety structures mere hours after their construction.
One such posting, dated July 25, read:
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I believe it. The UN is the terrorists' international arm.
Dear President Bush:
Would you PLEASE PLEASE pardon Michael New now?
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Thanks for posting this. It's getting beyond absurd that none of this is covered in the msm.
I think Israel should release the pics of Kofi being Nasrallah's beeyatch in his camel tent.
Bump to the top.
Outstanding post. Outstanding post. Outstanding post. Thanks.
I can't say i'm surprised.It's way past time to get out of the UN.
GRRRRRR
No surprise here. Get US out!
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Supporters of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (top) shout anti-American slogans as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (R), Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh (L) and parliament member Ali Ammar (C) arrive in a damaged area of Beirut August 28, 2006. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
Another reason why the UN should not be located in the USA. If they will spy on Israel and report to their enemies, they (the UN) will surely do it to all of the USA allies.
Doesn't surprise me in the least.
If any doubted the left's involvement with the terrorists this should dispel it. The UN is not a terrorist organization, per se, but it is a leftist organization that uses the terrorists to further the goals of the left, the destruction of democracy and especially the USA. Russia and China are the seed beds for this.
Such "realizations" are naive. Anyone with any sense of recent history would assume the UN was materially assisting the hezzies, and that its protestations for peace are always cover for war manuevers. The UN is an organization controlled by terrorist states.
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