Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/8997.htm ^ | 7/31/06 | Reuven Koret

[sportutegrl]

Little Green Footballs ( www.littlegreenfootballs.com ) is all over this. Also Powerline blog has an interesting poster of Condi shown just a few hours after the building collapse that is waaaaay too professional to have been made that quick.

[familyop]

Do you think they'll offer this man a job?

[Peach]

It wouldn't be the first time the jihadists did this; but maybe it will be the first time that the UN will be forced to understand Hezbollywood and how it works.

With technology today, I'd think it would be more difficult to get away with these fake scenes.

[familyop]

That was a Reuters photo, BTW.

[river rat]

Hell, even the Saudi "Burka Patrol" perferred that young school girls burn to death, rather than allow them to escape into the street with their heads uncovered...

The story I read - had them actually force some young girls back into the burning building to their death, because they were not "properly attired"...

The bastards are certifiably insane -- and must be destroyed..

Semper Fi

[SE Mom]

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

From this link you posted - there is a remarkable sequence here- showing the SAME rescue worker, holding the SAME child's body for a photo op- but the time stamps on the photographers cameras are DIFFERENT- these pics were taken an hour apart- yet the same body is present.

This is proof of something so evil there are no wrods to describe it..

Thank you for this great list of links (love the editorials with each!)

[river rat]

Here is the story:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2002/03/15/saudia3801.htm

A "cleaned up" version by the Human Rights watch -- who hate being "unkind" to Islamists.

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Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Role in School Fire Criticized
(New York, March 15, 2002)

Saudi authorities should conduct an independent, thorough, and transparent investigation of the March 11 fire at a girls' public intermediate school in Mecca that claimed the lives of at least fourteen students, Human Rights Watch said today. The tragedy has focused attention on the role of the religious police as well as the state agency responsible for the education of girls and women in the kingdom

Women and girls may have died unnecessarily because of extreme interpretations of the Islamic dress code. State authorities with direct and indirect responsibility for this tragedy must be held accountable

Hanny Megally
Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch.

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Eyewitnesses, including civil defense officers, reported that several members of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (mutawwa'in, in Arabic) interfered with rescue efforts because the fleeing students were not wearing the obligatory public attire (long black cloaks and head coverings) for Saudi girls and women. The mutawwa'in, a law-enforcement agency that has sought to ensure the application of the kingdom's strict gender segregation and dress code for women, has drawn criticism for abusive practices including harassment, physical abuse, and arbitrary arrest.
"Women and girls may have died unnecessarily because of extreme interpretations of the Islamic dress code," said Hanny Megally, Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch. "State authorities with direct and indirect responsibility for this tragedy must be held accountable."

There were 835 students and fifty-five women teachers in Intermediate School No. 31 when the blaze started at about 8:00 in the morning, according to Saudi press reports. Saudi newspapers suggested that the school, located in a rented building, was overcrowded, and may have lacked proper safety infrastructure and equipment, such as fire stairs and alarms.

The government's investigation should also examine unsafe conditions at the school, which is administered by the General Presidency for Girls' Education (GPGE), Human Rights Watch added.

Yesterday's edition of Arab News (Jeddah) cited a report prepared by Mecca's Civil Defense Department about the rescue effort at the school. The report noted that mutawwa'in were at the school's main gate and, "intentionally obstructed the efforts to evacuate the girls. This resulted in the increased number of casualties." The religious police reportedly tried to block the entry of Civil Defense officers into the building. "We told them that the situation was dangerous and it was not the time to discuss religious issues, but they refused and started shouting at us," Arab News quoted Civil Defense officers as saying.

"Whenever the girls got out through the main gate, these people forced them to return via another. Instead of extending a helping hand for the rescue work, they were using their hands to beat us," Civil Defense officers were quoted as saying. The officers also said they saw three people beating girls who had evacuated the school without proper dress. A Saudi journalist told Human Rights Watch that the mutawwa'in at the scene also turned away parents and other residents who came to assist.

The tragedy has prompted Saudi journalists to call for greater openness on the part of the GPGE in response to inquiries from the media for information about its policies and practices. All aspects of state-financed education for girls in Saudi Arabia, including the renting of buildings for schools, is under the authority of the GPGE, an autonomous government agency long controlled by conservative clerics. "A free flow of information would. . . help the press to prepare an investigative report on other schools in the Kingdom where conditions might also endanger the lives of students and teachers," Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jamal A. Khashoggi wrote in yesterday's Arab News.

He urged that the GPGE provide information about fire safety in its schools for girls, including the number of fire extinguishers, the frequency of fire drills, as well as details about the contracts for the thousands of rented school premises in the kingdom, including provisions for installation of emergency exits and fire alarms.

The kingdom's intermediate public schools, which are segregated by gender, provide three years of education for children between the ages of twelve and fifteen, following a six-year program of elementary education.

Saudi Arabia is a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.

Megally added that in the midst of this tragedy it was encouraging to see relatively open discussion of need for investigation in the traditionally very quiescent Saudi press.

[SE Mom]

See the list of links posted by Ali- and then study the link I ref'd in # 46.

This was staged.

[DustyMoment]

Given the history of terrorists and their manipulation of the media, this version of the building collapse has a ring of truth to it - and it worked!! The IDF has stopped air attacks for 48 hours!! Will they get those 48 hours worth of air raids back when it is conclusively proven that the Qana building collapse was faked?

Not likeley, but the terrorists will have given themselves a 48 hour edge to re-stock their munitions supplies.

[Peach]

Good catches, SE Mom and everyone.

[Barney59]

Now this explanation strikes me as much closer to the truth.

[HardStarboard]

My question is why are there no survivors to interview?

Usually, in any group of 50 or 60 people, there will be a survivor or two that makes it through the carnage and building collapase. None here!

There are several possibilities:
1) The IDF strike killed every last one of them.
2) The IDF strike got most, the rest too badly injured to flee.
3) The IDF strike preceeded Hizbullah herding them into the building and blowing it up - giving a coup de grace to anyone that survived the blast.
4) They were all dead prior to being placed in the building and blowing it up.

Given Hamas's effective use of theatrics in Gaza, and the strange time lag, I vote for 3 or 4.

[river rat]

The Arabs don't seem to have any problem at all, killing their own children....
The just object to others doing it...

Here's another article on the Arab love of children....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1874471.stm

This is by the BBC who would NEVER critize their "champions' the Saudis..

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Saudi police 'stopped' fire rescue


The Mecca city governor visited the fire-damaged school

Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.
In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.

About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred.


15 girls died in the blaze and more than 50 others were injured

According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam.

One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya".

The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them".

The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out.

"Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the newspaper concluded.

Relatives' anger

Families of the victims have been incensed over the deaths.

Most of the victims were crushed in a stampede as they tried to flee the blaze.

The school was locked at the time of the fire - a usual practice to ensure full segregation of the sexes.

The religious police are widely feared in Saudi Arabia. They roam the streets enforcing dress codes and sex segregation, and ensuring prayers are performed on time.

Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail.

Semper Fi

[Fred Nerks]

http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/07/canadian_family.php

Could it be? Look at the children closely...I could be wrong, but I have had a very bad feeling about this all day.

[johnny7]

Possibly Lebanese... Christians?

[redgolum]

But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. Their limbs appeared to have stiffened, from rigor mortis. Neither were effects that would have resulted from an Israeli attack hours before. These were bodies that looked like they had been dead for days.

I wondered that also. Like the photos of the "chemical attack", the bodies look like they have been dead for awhile, and the live "victims" do not appear hurt.

[1234]

as regards the 'big picture', does it matter whether the lousy diaperheads staged this?!

we (the West) ain't gonna make any progress 'til we demonstrate some cajones w/ iran and friends.

[observer5]

"Journalists were not allowed near the collapsed building"

Hahahaha... Paliwood directors at work!

[Shimmer128]

Yeah, and we know those truth tellers in the arab world, don't we?? Not like those lying Israelis. (rolling eyes)

Last sentence: The question remains whether honest men and women of other nationalities will let this likely lie stand or press for the revelation of the improbable and inconvenient truth.

IMPROBABLE?????? I'd say more PROBABLE.

[alrea]

It is to be hoped that there are real journalists on the scene

Good luck finding one of these.