Posted on 12/11/2006 6:29:41 AM PST by Sabramerican
A few scenes from modern warfare:
Mohammad Abd al-Hamid Srour moved missiles across southern Lebanon under cover of a white flag. Hussein Ali Mahmoud Suleiman used the porch of a private home to fire rockets. Maher Hassan Mahmoud Kourani dressed in civilian clothes, hid his Kalashnikov in a tote bag and stored anti-aircraft missiles in the back of a green unmarked Volvo. .........
Now their videotaped interviews form part of a remarkable report by retired Lieutenant Colonel Reuven Erlich of Israel's Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Relying heavily on captured Hezbollah documents, onsite and aerial photography and other first-hand evidence, the report shows how the Shiite group put innocent civilians at risk by deliberately deploying its forces in cities, towns and often private homes.
Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has accused Israel's military of "indiscriminate warfare" and "a disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians." Mr. Erlich demolishes that claim, and in the process shows the asymmetric strategy of Islamist radicals.
The most persuasive evidence here is photographic, so we urge readers to access the report itself on the Web site of the American Jewish Congress (ajcongress.org1). Hezbollah's headquarters in Aita al-Shaab, for instance, sits in the heart of the village. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's office and home are in a densely built neighborhood of Beirut. In the town of Qana -- site of an Israeli bombing on July 30 that killed 28 and that Hezbollah's apologists were quick to label a "massacre" -- an arms warehouse can be seen adjacent to a mosque. There are photographs of rockets in the back seats of cars, missile launchers adjacent to farm houses, storage bunkers hidden beneath homes. There is also a trove of before-and-after photography demonstrating the precision of most Israeli bombing.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
They hid troops and materiel in Mosques and museums, torture and execute POWs, attack unarmed civilians, and attack non-military targets. They're terrorists, not military.
Tut, tut, don't you know that Israel is the aggressor, and the poor Palestinians are freedom fighters? Therefore, only Israel can be guilty of war crimes. Simple as that!
(One can only hope that a sarcasm tag is not needed.)
This is supposed to be news? Most of us who read the newspapers were/are aware that these social misfits do WHATEVER IT TAKES to win, No rules at all. If we fail to understand this we are doomed.
This report should be a prime topic for all talk radio and cable talk shows this week. Will it get any mention outside of the WSJ?
The next time anyone mentions the sanctity of a mosque or a koran, I will cite this report, that munitions are stored next to mosques, proving that muslim fighters do not respect what they demand that we respect.
High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel, WOT
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There is a shareware app called windows media recorder (WM Recorder) which is supposed to be able to record any streaming video. Never used it so I can't vouch for its performance.
But you might just contact the center and maybe they'll send them to you.
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/engsite/home/default.asp
What you point out is exactly the reason their treatment should be governed by the Geneva Conventions: when they fight out of uniform, they can be summarily shot a spies; when they do most of the other things listed in the article, they can be run in on war-crimes charges.
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