Posted on 08/28/2006 8:46:35 AM PDT by callthemlikeyouseethem
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan demanded on Monday that Hezbollah release two captured Israeli soldiers to the international Red Cross, and that Israel lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon.
Visiting Beirut on the first leg of an 11-day Mideast tour, Annan said he was renewing his "call for the abducted soldiers to be free," and urged Hezbollah to transfer them to the Lebanese government "or a third party" under the auspices of the international Red Cross.
"We, the U.N., will be prepared to play a role if we are required to do so. And I offer our services," he said.
Annan also urged Israel to lift its blockade on Lebanon. "I'm working with them and a number of international partners to see to it that this is done," he said.
Or else what?
""We, the U.N., will be prepared to play a role if we are required to do so."
Apparently he didn't read the resolution.
Annan and the UN are a joke
This announcement must have come from the U.N. Rapid Response unit. /sarc
Yeah. That'll work.
Coffee must already have some kind of assurrances that they are being released.... He'd never do that cold.
Annan, with his lips pouting and his foot lightly stomping the plush carpet of his boudoir, quietly & gently requests the release of the Israeli soldiers.
/sarcasm
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Are the Israeli soldiers still alive?
Isn't it three soldiers that have been kidnapped?
It occurred to me yesterday that how in the world can these people (arabs and islamists) expect us to see them as anything but barbarians when they pull this crap. CAIR can screech all they want, but I basically see practitioners of islam as barbarians. Now, some individual barbarians can be very nice, and smart, and educated. But the culture as a whole? Barbaric.
I knew he forgot something.
Who in their right minds, whether terrorist or otherwise, pays any attention to what Koffi Anushead has to say? He needs to go there and put on a terrifying blue helmet and grab a gun and get them back himself. No....he would soil himself.
Spit balls.
Interesting that you mention that word, barbarians. I distinctly remember Senator Kerry calling terrorists barbarians when he was a presidential candidate.
Why didn't the leftest blame Kerry for "agitating" terrorists like they did Bush when he called terrorists Islamic fascists?
Is one term more accurate than the other or any less insulting to their sensitives? Or is one more inclined to alert the world to the truth?
Israel, have you already forgotten about Gilad Shalit as well?
"Israel should condition the lifting of its blockade on an unconditional release of the Israeli soldiers. No release, the blockade continues forever. Lebanon needs the blockade lifted more than Israel does. Ehud Olmert is finished but he can at least try to see the boys brought home and this is the final trump card Israel has to secure their freedom."
Agreed. No prisoner swap this time, Hezbollah started this, they do not deserve a reward for kidnapping and murder into Israeli territory.
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