Posted on 07/31/2006 7:25:01 PM PDT by PRePublic
Photos that damn Hezbollah
Chris Link
July 30, 2006 12:00am
THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.
The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
They emerged as:
US President George Bush called for an international force to be sent to Lebanon.
ISRAEL called up another 30,000 reserve troops.
THE UN's humanitarian chief Jan Egeland called for a three-day truce to evacuate civilians and transport food and water into cut-off areas.
US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a UN resolution aimed at ending the 18-day war, and:
A PALESTINIAN militant group said it had kidnapped, killed and burned an Israeli settler in the West Bank.
The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun metres from an apartment block with sheets hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47 rifle guarding no-go zones after Israeli blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in the middle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack.
The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut and did not wish to be named said he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so lucky it was not more."
The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as "human shields".
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as "cowards" for operating among civilians.
"When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women
You know it is real hard to know who to believe. So many of these jpeg pictures can now be hoaxed. I guess for so many of us we feel this isn't our war, and we don't want to be dragged into it.
Hezbollah is 100% responsible for every death in this war.
This has to be at least the 5th time I've seen this exact article posted in the last 6 hours. And that's just during the time I've been on FR the last 6 hours.
I saw one of the FOX reporters reporting from a bombed Lebanese "home" full of boxes of munitions, rockets etc.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html
Go see this travesty. This is AP, Rueters, etc. staging these PR photos with dead children over the course of 6 hours. These are the dead children the MSM is swooning over.
Talk about participating in evil?
{You know it is real hard to know who to believe. So many of these jpeg pictures can now be hoaxed. I guess for so many of us we feel this isn't our war, and we don't want to be dragged into it.}
See my link above. Then sleep well.
I like the news pictures the other day with sheets of counterfeit US $100 bills in the economic ministry in Beruit.
I guess for so many of us we feel this isn't our war, and we don't want to be dragged into it.
don't include me in your "so many of us"
If this is the way you feel = that's your business (of course it's hard to see what's going on when your head is stuck firmly in, ah, the sand.)
Not our war? That's the attitude that let Hitler roll over Poland and then continue to run amok until it took millions of lives to pound him into dust.
I hope we don't have to replay that scenario -
Muslims don't bleed, I guess.
Speak for yourself. It IS our war (remember 9/11?) and I support wiping out Hezballah. It is an historic opportunity. The other agitators, Iran and Syria will tread very lightly because, unlike any other time in Israel's history, the US military is holding BOTH Syrian and Iranian borders.
Yo Israel, we GOT your back!
Very confusing article. I don't get it. What is the proof the author is talking about? The photos don't seem to show anything.
I have no use for propagandists. Let's get some hard facts, for example what the blazes was the UN doing in south Lebanon?
ping
I guess for so many of us we feel this isn't our war, and we don't want to be dragged into it.
Not your war? What, you live on another planet or something?
These are the same kind of people that flew air planes into the WTC and the Pentagon. Different group..same ideology.
these people will kill you if you don't believe exactly what they do, no matter if you're Jewish, Muslim, Hundu, Christian. Same war...different fronts.
Its the global war on terror.Like world war 2.this is everybodys war. Wake up
Fixing everything, WhY does the USA think it has to fix everyone's border disputes, and work out everyone's problems. It doesn't work in counseling, try to get your kids to grow up and face their challenges...when you do everything for them. The whole world ends up hating the people in the USA as they meddle... I have enjoyed reading diaries of my father, who in 1938 spoke proudly of the people of America that were not involved in the affairs of the world. I suppose Americans now want to come to Mexico City and solve THIS problem too? http://www.mexiconews.com.mx/19584.html
...when you do everything for them.
... The whole world ends up hating the people in the USA as they meddle...
I have enjoyed reading diaries of my father, who in 1938 spoke proudly of the people of America that were not involved in the affairs of the world
"BORDER dispute???"
the "border" on this one, my blind friend, is the world...
"...do everything for them?"
Seem like the Israelis are doing the heavy lifting on this one.
"I have enjoyed reading diaries of my father, who in 1938 spoke proudly of the people of America that were not involved in the affairs of the world..."
and had we not got involved, finally, you - and the rest of us would now be "spoking" German.
Can you really be that naive, that obtuse? Well, I guess if you are a product of most American schools in the last couple-three decades = and you didn't have the prerequisite native intelligence for discernment, along with a dad who taught you about head-stick-in-sand WITH blinders on for good measure...then this is the result.
Today, however, you have the world's history at your fingertips via the Internet. Perhaps you should take a few years off from opining and educate yourself. Better hurry though, 'cause if too many like you prevail, your head will be on the mussie chopping block and one swift swing of the sword - ah, no, they don't bother with that anymore...any old bread knife will do...
?But should the world, once again, as it seems destined to have to do every few hundred years, manage to pound these barbarians back into the sand again...you can thank your lucky stars you still have freedom to wax naive and uninformed....
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