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In a letter to the editor of the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel a Lebanese Shia explains how after Israel’s withdrawal from South Lebanon, Hezbollah stored rockets in bunkers in his town and built a school and residence over it. ""I lived until 2002 in a small southern village near Mardshajun that is inhabited by a majority of Shias like me. After Israel left Lebanon, it did not take long for Hezbollah to have the say in our town and all other towns. Received as successful resistance fighters, they appeared armed to the teeth and dug rocket depots in bunkers in...

Canadian killed from UN force complained his position shielding Hizbullah Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 26 July 2006 "...the tragic loss of a soldier yesterday who I happen to know and I think probably is from my Regiment. We've received e-mails from him a few days ago and he described the fact that he was taking within - in one case - three meters of his position "for tactical necessity - not being targeted". Now that's veiled speech in the military and what he was telling us was Hizbullah fighters were all over his position and the IDF were (sic) targeting...

Who has not seen images of terrorists, criminals, guerilla warfare soldiers, and others using civilians as human shields? There is an ironic mix of bravado and cowardice at the spectacle of some arrogant, boastful fool hiding behind the innocent, clueless, and defenseless. Usually that human shield is silent, terrified, and uninvolved in the coward’s cause. Only an imbecile, for example, would think that the toddler being held by a bank robber attempting escape was somehow a willing accomplice. Well, as I have often stated, liberals are not without imagination or creativity. Leave it to our leftist friends to come up...

Honor Roll: BillF, BufordP, Calvin*, Christopher Lincoln, cindy-true-supporter, Dave*, Ed Hudgins, GeorgeTheOther, Iraqikurd, Jimmy Valentine’s brother, Josh*, JoyJoyfromNJ, Kevin*, kristinn, Marylander, Mellora*, Ryan*, Tolerance Sucks Rocks, Tom the Redhunter, Trey*The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic and friends took a stand for freedom in the face of Islamofascism outside the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C. yesterday.We were there to counter a protest of the Mohammed cartoons by the New Black Panther Party and other assorted extemist Muslims.We started gathering in front of the embassy, located on Whitehaven St., NW, at noon, an hour before the radical Muslims were scheduled to arrive...

Athletes form human shield22/01/2006 17:02  - (SA)     Related Articles Iran 'not worried' about UN Rice: Iran leaders not trusted SA 'consulting' on Iran France says no to nuke talks Britain open to diplomacy Iran: EU-3 wants IAEA meeting    Isfahan - Iran on Sunday gave a fresh show of its determination to press on with its disputed nuclear programme, enrolling about 1 000 athletes to form a human shield in front of a key nuclear facility. The demonstration, which took place in front of just a handful of journalists, was held under winter sunshine outside the main gate of a uranium...

Will post story ASAP FNC showed pictures of young Children forming a chain\shield around the Nuke Faciity.

An autopsy revealed evidence of cocaine in the body of Suzie Marie Peña, the toddler who died in a shootout between police and her father, who was using her as a shield, officials said today. Medical tests showed that the toddler's urine contained the drug benzoylechgoneine, into which cocaine metabolizes in the human body. The autopsy showed the presence of a trace amount of the drug, according to Craig Harvey, spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner. Experts said it could have been ingested or inhaled. One official said the cocaine could have been eaten, come from breast milk, or...

MILWAUKEE - A peace activist who went to Iraq to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is challenging $8,000 in federal fines. Ryan Clancy, 28, filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department in federal court Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The department alleges Clancy went to Iraq in violation of sanctions and offered his services to the Iraqi government to shield its facilities from possible military action. Clancy was in Iraq from Jan. 28, 2003, to March 7, 2003, according the lawsuit. The United States attacked Iraq on March 19, 2003.

US forces kill human 'shield' child in Iraq US forces have shot dead a child which they say was being used as a human "shield" during an exchange of gunfire near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. More than 20 people have also reportedly been killed in gun battles, drive-by shootings and suicide bombings elsewhere in the country. A statement said US forces came under attack as they were carrying out operations in Tal Afar, a volatile town west of Mosul that has seen frequent violence in recent months. "An Iraqi child was killed as terrorists and multi-national forces exchanged...

May 26, 2005 Release A050526e Child killed in exchange of fire MOSUL , Iraq – An Iraqi child was killed as terrorists and Multi-National Forces exchanged fire in northern Iraq May 26. Soldiers from the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment came under attack during operations in Tall Afar. Terrorists used Iraqi children as shields when Multi-National Forces returned fire. During the engagement, the child was killed.

Brian Avery, a 26-year-old American, will petition the High Court of Justice on Monday for a military investigation into an April 2003 incident in which he was allegedly shot in the face by soldiers in Jenin. He was severely wounded. The army claims the soldiers acted legally and according to orders. Avery's case would be the first case of a non-Israeli shot by the IDF to reach the High Court, his Israeli attorney, Michael Sfard, said. In the cases of two fatal shootings involving British citizens Tom Hurndall, 23, and James Miller, 35, full ongoing military investigations were launched after...

I just watched a fascinating, but all too brief, interview with Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., an Assyrian Christian whose parents escaped Iraq in 1917, and later answered the call to help rebuild Japan. During the process that led up to the war in Iraq, Rev. Joseph was very vocal against the war on his radio program, and participated in demonstrations against it in Japan. He saw it as an unjust war against the people of Iraq, which were after all HIS people. He was so adamant in this position that he in fact became a human shield, in the hopes...

Where are the human shields? You remember the Westerners who flocked to Iraq to "protect" it from America. Now that democracy itself is under attack, why aren't they pouring into Iraq to protect the polling places? Two possible answers: (a) Because they think the jihadis, unlike the Coalition, will actually try to kill them. (b) They were willing to risk their lives to save Saddam but not to make a democratic election possible.....

The High Court of Justice on Thursday gave Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Dan Halutz 15 days to explain his moral and ethical position regarding an air force operation to kill Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh in which 14 civilians were killed, including seven children. The decision was handed down in a petition by the left-wing Yesh Gvul movement and a group of intellectuals, artists, and politicians demanding that Halutz, who served as commander of the air force at the time of the operation, not be appointed deputy chief of General Staff. Halutz has been appointed to the position in...

Uri Avnery was the first Israeli to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and one of the last. While many Israelis blamed Arafat for the failure of the Oslo Accords and for leading the reign of terror which replaced it, Avnery said he never lost his faith in the Palestinian leader. "Arafat was not only a great national leader, but he was a partner with whom we could have made peace and should have made peace," said the 81-year-old long-time activist and former journalist. "I was the first Israeli who ever spoke with Yasser Arafat; it was unusual. My...

Iran is seeking volunteers to act as a massive human shield around Iran's nuclear reactor in case of a military attack against the facility. About two weeks ago Iran announced its plans build more nuclear power plants with Russian help the in southern port city of Bushehr, ignoring US and Israeli concerns that by-products from the plants could be used to manufacture atomic bombs. The US and Israel strongly suspect Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, but Iran has consistently denied the charges. The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign is organizing the human shield campaign...

1.30pm - Around 2000 self-styled "human shields" poured into Najaf yesterday to join Shiite insurgents holed up in the gold-domed mosque, as fresh battles in the holy city prevented a quick victory by US and Iraqi forces. US forces backed by tanks exchanged fire with the followers of Moqtada al Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric whose supporters barricaded inside the Imam Ali shrine were joined by the unarmed but defiant "human shields." But as the crackle of machine gun fire echoed through the old city, armed Iraqi police turned their ire against journalists in the city. Last night they fired...

WITHIN the next few days, Lee Ferguson, a highly trained combat soldier, will return to Iraq and face one of his most formidable enemies. Not the remnants of Iraqi military resistance after the second Gulf conflict, but the ghosts of his own past. Separated by 14 years from the boy he was in 1990, Lance Corporal Ferguson, 27, is now arguably as dangerous as those who made him one of Saddam Hussein’s infamous "human shields". But he admits that it could take more that the distance of time and military training to lay that ordeal finally to rest. "I am...

THE terrorists who escaped after killing 22 people in Saudi Arabia at the weekend were holding human shields to ensure their escape. It is believed the three men, still on the run, escaped after making good on their threat to execute hostages in the Oasis housing compound in the eastern oil city of Khobar. A hostage heard the gunmen shouting they would release their captives if the security forces let them go. "The security forces refused at the beginning but then apparently relented," he said. "There was a kind of deal reached, although some hostages had already been killed." A...

When older Palestinian boys started throwing stones at Israeli border police in the flashpoint West Bank village of Biddo, 13-year-old Muhammed Badwan went along to watch.