Israeli strikes reportedly trap up to 50 in rubble (Green Helmet Guy En-Route Alert)

MSNBC/AP ^ | 8/4/2006 | AP

[tobyhill]

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israeli airstrikes flattened two southern Lebanese residences Friday and more than 50 people were buried in the rubble, security officials and the state news agency said.

The number of dead was not immediately known. One attack flattened a building in Aita al-Shaab, a mile inside Lebanon, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. A large number of civilians were inside at the time, but the exact number was unknown, it said

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Green Helmet Guy is enroute?? This is SERIES HUGH NEWS...

[b4its2late]

Sounds like the human shield thing.....

[pabianice]

Correction: Israeli airstrikes trap 50 human shields held prisoner by Hezbollah savages.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

let me guess, hizbullah convinced civilians they'd be safe there, then mounted rocket launchers right next to both building and opened up..

these civilians ought to learn by now..large groups of people should stay OUT of the same building..it's automatially a target (after the launchers send off their rockets)..IMHO..

[tobyhill]

AP pictures to follow. Maybe this time they'll learned how to set the time/date stamp so the stage won't be so obvious?

[RoseofTexas]

AHHHHHHHH crAP strikes again!! This is getting reallllllll old and folk are tuning out!! Where are the crAP tears for those kill on the Israeli side?....chirp, chirp...waiting...

[ASA Vet]

This is SERIES HUGH NEWS

Keep clam, it's not a full blown stuned beeber alert.

[golfisnr1]

AP = Anti-american Publicists.

[johnny7]

[MikeA]

50 less parasites on the earth. They were probably all active Hezzie, or support structures therefore. The media should stop these reports. Far from making me weep, they make me ecstatic.

[blu]

johnny, WTH is that picture??

[GeorgiaDawg32]

keep clam?? ROFL...

[MarineDad]

"The number of dead was not immediately known..."

Now, do they mean really dead or "Pali" dead?

The latter are those who fall off their biers but jump right back on again. They can be counted multiple times in any such assessment...

[texan75010]

AMEN to that! The fewer vermin walking the earth the better. They are either active terrorists or sympathisers. That makes them all valid targets.

[GeronL]

I am sure that it was a Hez-Ebola barracks and they were all civilians

[debg]

That really does not belong here.

[tobyhill]

"The number of dead was not immediately known..."

Pick a number, the AP does.

[Westlander]

'50 people were buried in the rubble'
So what's the news? They just saved the hizzalabullies money on burial costs.

[Cagey]

"Here I come to save the day!!!"