8/2 Middle East Live Thread

8/1 Middle East Live Thread ^ | 8/2/06 | BurbankKarl

[Mo1]

Are you checking out Brian Becker on FNC .. he refuses to call Hezbl a terrorists organization

Not shocker there

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Rummy is sooooo good with the press. Gives me the occasional *THUD* moment...

[mware]

It looks like someone on another thread figured out who Green Helmet guy is. Note he was in Quan in 1996.

As yet another body was removed from the wreckage yesterday morning, Naim Raqa, the head of the civil defence team searching the ruins, hung his head in grief: "When they found them, they were all huddled together at the back of the room ... Poor things, they thought the walls would protect them."

"Where is the humanity? Why are these massacres being committed against civilians?” asked Naim Raqa, the head of the Lebanese civil defence unit in nearby Jawaya, who was helping the rescue.

Naim Raqa, head of civil defense in the nearby town of Jouaya, sat on a pile of rubble, his black uniform covered in a fine concrete powder.

"I was in Qana in '96"the exhausted rescue worker said. "Israel, when it is weakened, commits bigger massacres.

"We were told about this massacre -- I don't know what time it was. We couldn't move at night, even in ambulances, because of the shelling. They should allow us to move so we can work."

He wiped beads of sweat from his brow.

"They were still asleep, hiding. They were all near the walls, huddled in fear. We found many of them like this," he said, drawing his knees and elbows into his chest in a fetal-like position. "The poor things thought the walls would protect them. I had the honor of removing about 15 of them."

His break was interrupted by a colleague calling for stretchers as the bodies of two more young boys were removed, their tiny pajama shorts and T-shirts covered in soil and dust.

Raqa didn't wait for the stretchers to arrive. He scooped up one child; a bystander carried the other.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Thanks, prairie, I hadn't seen the 10 year old photo, although I had heard about.

Let's hope enough folks see this to undercut some of the effect of Sunday's reporting.

Pinz

[Txsleuth]

Yeppers...for over 70 he is definitely *THUD* worthy.

[Timeout]

Don't know if this has been posted.

National Review writer Stephen Vincent's widow has sent a bunch of pizzas to the IDF with this note:

To honor and remember my beloved husband Steven Vincent, the freelance journalist kidnapped and murdered by Islamic fundamentalist thugs in Basra, Iraq on August 2, 2005, I send these pizzas as a tribute to your bravery, courage and dedication to the fight to rid the world of such monsters.

Steven adored pizza, and would have completely approved of the IDF response to Hezbollah's evil, so I thought this was the perfect tribute to both him and you. God bless you all, and may He keep you safe. Hope you enjoy the pizzas---

[Mo1]

Becker on FNC is saying the Hezbl is a victim of terrorists attacks ??

[RDTF]

bloggers and Freepers are gonna rip this one wide open too!

[AdmSmith]

From a Stratfor report on Hezbollah today:

Hezbollah has a long-standing and well-known presence in the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where the U.S. government estimates it has earned tens of millions of dollars from selling electronic goods, counterfeit luxury items and pirated software, movies and music. It also has an even more profitable network in West Africa that deals in "blood diamonds" from places like Sierra Leone and the Republic of the Congo. Cells in Asia procure and ship much of the counterfeit material sold elsewhere; nodes in North America deal in smuggled cigarettes, baby formula and counterfeit designer goods, among other things.

In the United States, Hezbollah also has been involved in smuggling pseudoephedrine and selling counterfeit Viagra, and it has played a significant role in the production and worldwide propagation of counterfeit currencies.

The business empire of the Shiite organization also extends into the drug trade. The Bekaa Valley, which it controls, is a major center for growing poppies and cannabis; here also, heroin is produced from raw materials arriving from places like Afghanistan and the Golden Triangle. Hezbollah earns large percentages of the estimated $1 billion drug trade flowing out of the Bekaa. Much of the hashish and heroin emanating from there eventually arrive in Europe — where Hezbollah members also are involved in smuggling, car theft and distribution of counterfeit goods and currency.

Comment: We can hope that the IDF raid in Bekaa has destroyed part of this "business venture".

[Blogger]

That man is a disgusting pig! He just called America and Israel the terrorists. I'm for rounding all this scum up and shipping them to go live with the Hezbullies. They are treasonous.

[harwood]

Nasrallah pisses off the queda types again:

Hassan Nasrallah accuses Abu Sufian of being a hypocrite.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftajdeed.org.uk%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Fs%3Dc97d1c5f3216364c0ebbbbc9b51c6838%26threadid%3D44138&langpair=ar%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Seems Papa Sufian was one of Mo-ham-head's pals. Mo married one of his girls.

[redgolum]

Ping for later read.

Very good find.

[pgkdan]

bump

[RouxStir]

Is this the group that is used to send pizza?

http://www.pizzaidf.org/

[tcrlaf]

More HEZ propoganda from the HEZ Website:

-Zionist enemy resorted again to promote lies and falsehoods after failing to field achievements on the ground face Mojahedin Islamic Resistance, The latest preventing it from achieving its goals of the elite troops landing in the vicinity of Baalbek and the enemy army's claim that the families of the three elements of Hezbollah.

- Islamic resistance to the city of Afula after Hivabsalih missiles Jew "1"
The name of God, the Merciful
"You promised that the promise made hell Llkavrin hurried"
God is great sincerity Ali
In response to the Zionist attacks that included people in the south and the Bekaa, The Mujahideen heroes of the Islamic Resistance hours fourth and third afternoon (4:20) Targeting city Afula located beyond the city of Haifa, which is located at a distance of five kilometres from the border Fifty Lebanese-Palestinian Bsalih missiles wrestled one.

These are machine translated by Google Translations

[Mo1]

His name is Brian Becker from ANSWER .. so I'm not really surprised by his comments

They are the group behind many of the anti-american rallies in this country

[AdmSmith]

Thanks harwood for your very good input with these translations.

[RDTF]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676496/posts

Hezbollah Caught Planning Fake Atrocity
Strategy Page ^ | August 2, 2006 | James F. Dunnigan


Posted on 08/02/2006 1:28:24 PM EDT by Thud


Hizbollah Caught Planning an Atrocity

August 2, 2006: Israeli troops operating in south Lebanon captured a Hezbollah safe house, and found the usual weapons and other equipment, as well as a supply of Israeli Defense Force uniforms. This indicated plans to stage a major "atrocity." Committed, as the evidence would clearly show, by Israeli troops. But perhaps this will never happen, for Israeli raids into southern Lebanon have captured many Hizbollah documents, as well as some live Hizbollah members. These, combined with Israeli electronic eavesdropping, reports from agents inside Lebanon, give the Israelis a pretty good idea of what Hizbollah is up to. Without much fanfare, Israeli commandos and aircraft will respond to Hizbollah plans.

[tcrlaf]

Becker is also a major force for the PRO-PALESTINIAN Demonstrations from the lat several years....

[harwood]

Thanks to ALL here..It's a fine community!