Top row (L-R): Amira and Ali, parents Ahmed and Haniya. Bottom row (L-R): Eight-year-old Saja, six-year-old Zeinab, four-year-old Ahmad, 11-month-old Salam and uncle Ali. Only Ahmed survived..
Posted on 07/31/2006 2:18:11 AM PDT by BlueSky194
It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah. Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel's "Grapes of Wrath operation," so too a sequel of Qana II could change, once and for all, the direction of Israel's current summer blockbuster, "Change of Direction." Ten years ago, world condemnation of an errant Israeli shell that hit a civilian compound forced then-PM Shimon Peres to curtail the offensive against terror bases.
The setting was also perfect: Kana was again being used as a primary site for launching rockets against Israeli cities. The IDF reported that more than 150 rockets had been launched from Qana and its vicinity at Israeli civilians, wreaking destruction in Kiryat Shmona, Maalot, Nahariya and Haifa. It was only a matter of time before the Israeli Air Force would come for a visit, using pinpoint targeting of the sites used to launch rockets, Hezbollah logistical centers and weapon storage facilities.
On the morning of July 30, according to the IDF, the air force came in three waves. In the first, between midnight and one in the morning, there was a strike at or near the building that eventually collapsed. There was a second strike at other targets far from the collapse building several hours later, and a third strike at around 7:30 in the morning. There too the nearest hit was some 460 meters away, according to the IDF. But first reports of a building collapse came only around 8 am.
Thus there was an unexplained 7 to 8 hour gap between the time of the helicopter strike and the building collapse. Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters, in a press briefing, told journalists that "the attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear."
Gen. Eshel appeared genuinely mystified by the gap in time. He "I'm saying this very carefully, because at this time I don't have a clue as to what the explanation could be for this gap," he added.
The army's only explanation was that somehow there was unexploded Hezbollah ordnance in the building that only detonated much later.
"It could be that inside the building, things that could eventually cause an explosion were being housed, things that we could not blow up in the attack, and maybe remained there, Brigadier General Eshel said.
Eshel reported that as recently as two days ago, military intelligence reported the building area had been used by the terrorists for storage or firing of weapons. It was a bad place to cram dozens of women and children.
There are other mysteries. The roof of the building was intact. Journalist Ben Wedeman of CNN noted that there was a larger crater next to the building, but observed that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.
Why would the civilians who had supposedly taken shelter in the basement of the building not leave after the post-midnight attack? They just went back to sleep and had the bad luck to wait for the building to collapse in the morning?
What we do know is that sometime after dawn a call went hour to journalists and rescue workers to come to the scene. And come they did.
While Hezbollah and its apologists have been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.
Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until the morning and only after the camera crews came. The absence of a real rescue effort was explained by saying that equipment was lacking. There were no scenes of live or injured people being extracted.
There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted: all the victims, he concluded, appeared to have died while as they were sleeping -- sleeping, apparently, through thunderous Israeli air attacks. Rescue workers equipped with cameras were removing the bodies from the same opening in the collapsed structure. Journalists were not allowed near the collapsed building.
Rescue workers filmed as they went carried the victims on the stretchers, occasionally flipping up the blankets so that cameras could show the faces and bodies of the dead.
But Israelis steeled to scenes of carnage from Palestinian suicide bombings and Hezbollah rocket attack could not help but notice that these victims did not look like our victims. Their faces were ashen gray. Their limbs appeared to have stiffened, from rigor mortis. Neither were effects that would have resulted from an Israeli attack hours before. These were bodies that looked like they had been dead for days.
Viewers can judge for themselves. But the accumulating evidence suggests another explanation for what happened at Kana. The scenario would be a setup in which the time between the initial Israeli bombing near the building and morning reports of its collapse would have been used to "plant" bodies killed in previous fighting -- reports in previous days indicated that nearby Tyre was used as a temporary morgue -- place them in the basement, and then engineer a "controlled demolition" to fake another Israeli attack.
The well-documented use by Palestinians of this kind of faked footage -- from the alleged shooting of Mohammed Dura in Gaza, scenes from Jenin of "dead" victims falling off gurneys and then climbing back on -- have merited the creation of a new film genre called "Palliwood."
There is increasing evidence that the Kana sequel is another episode in this genre, a variety which might be called Hezbollywood. The Hezbollah have evidently learned their craft well.
The current suspension of Israeli military air activity is supposedly intended, among other things, to be used for the investigation of what really happened at Qana. It is to be hoped that there are real journalists on the scene, and unbiased medical examiners, who will have the courage and intelligence to sort out the anomalies and contradictions, and get to the buried truth of what happened.
There is no shortage of victims in Lebanon and Israel these days. From this vantage point, at this time, it looks like in the case of Qana, the world's media was duped in a cruel and colossal hoax by a terror organization that knows no moral bounds in its exploitation of suffering and anti-Israel hatred. But, as usual, the only party expected to pay the full price will be Israelis.
Yes, it would be a Hollywood ending for it all to end in Qana, exactly as it did a decade ago. But perfect endings, and perfect crimes, are rarely pulled off in real life.
Israelis will not be able to investigate this claim directly. The question remains whether honest men and women of other nationalities will let this likely lie stand or press for the revelation of the improbable and inconvenient truth.
Is Hillary Clinton on this yet?
You know, women's rights and "it takes a villager" and all that.
Hezbollywood. I love it! Perfect description of the team of our enemies and "the ends justify the means," "I want to make a difference" drive-by media employees. It's especially right for "the most busted news source: CNN."
Will the world media acknowledge the truth or continue with the lie?
Top row (L-R): Amira and Ali, parents Ahmed and Haniya. Bottom row (L-R): Eight-year-old Saja, six-year-old Zeinab, four-year-old Ahmad, 11-month-old Salam and uncle Ali. Only Ahmed survived..
They're too willing to carry the fake stories along with the rest of the MSM.
the boy
the baby?
I wonder why the Israelis don't put more effort into these assassination squads. The bombs seems very ineffective in the propaganda front of the war.
Rigor mortis refers to the state of a body after death, in which the muscles become stiff. It commences after around 3 hours, reaching maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and gradually dissipates until approximately 72 hours after death. Rigor mortis occurs due to changes in the physiology of muscles when aerobic respiration ceases.
Sorry to be so grim, but some of the children in the pictures on another post looked a wee bit, well...stiff, for being freshly killed.
I am no expert, but something about this stinks.
I would not put it past the hezbollah to stage an atrocity. Islamists have been milking the propaganda cow like crazy, especially since the Liberal Media in the west signed on.
This gets more and more interesting, all the time. Of course the UN and their fellow Jew-haters will stand by the faked story.
The Arabs prefer dead children for the camera's then to rescue their children.
Either that, or there were no live children to rescue, and they knew it.
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| While I have no doubt that Hezbellywood is both possible and likely, be careful saying things such as "the time stamps on the photographers cameras are DIFFERENT." We have no clue what the time stamps are. The only information we have is the "dateline" stamp on the articles that the reporters filed. A reporter may file two dozen photos and then over the next 8 hours file a half dozen stories related to the same incident at different times with changes as time and snooping around demand. The newspapers run with whichever story fits their timeline and pluck what pictures it wants from the dozens filed. In short I may shoot two dozen photos of an incident at 8am, file a report at 8:30 and then file another one at 11am having learned other "facts/fiction" and the media will still choose what pics from 8am to use. It doesn't mean that this kid was being carried out at both 8:30 and 11:00am. |
As it relates, I believe we are going to have to change our tactics as well to win the WOT. The Iraqi resistance knew that they couldn't go head to head with us, so they changed tactics and they have lasted 4 years and some would now argue are winning the media war. The democrats are ready to surrender, in fact have joined forces with the media and the terrorists to ensure that we do.
1) Go after the heart of the Islamic idealogical mutation. Kill the clerics teaching hate and terrorism. We need to try and enlist moderate Muslims in this effort.
2) Send Amidinejad, Nasrallah, Assad, etc. personalized cruise missiles. These despots know they can't fight us under a flag, so they fight us through the media and proxy agents like Hamas and Hezbollah. We know there is a connection, we must have the courage to act on the knowledge. Think about the present Reagan sent Khadafi. These nutjobs all puff their chests and engage in escalating rhetoric until you punch them in the nose. Saddam didn't shut up after the Gulf War because we didn't directly target or threaten him. When we did, he hid in the ground like the rodent he was. W needs to confront these guys directly and personally. They need to fear W to respect him, or die. W has no choice in this. Anything less will embolden them.
3) We must be willing to fight like the terrorists fight. Un-uniformed, tactical squads that infiltrate and assassinate. Fighting terrorists hiding behind civilians in urban combat with 500 pounders and tanks is a losing strategy.
Fighting the terrorists they way we are now is actually making them stronger.
ping
this kinda reminds me of the Tanker war,
when a US destroyer shot down a A3?? passenger jet,
and hundreds of nude bodies were photographed
floating in the water
"Hello, Mohammed? This is Mohammed. We still working on that building collapse we have planned for tomorrow morning. We're need a dozen more bodies. Women and children only. There are a bunch stashed in that refrigerated truck behind the mosque. Have Mohammed get the pickup truck, load up a dozen, and get them over here before sunrise. Have Mohammed and Mohammed help you load up. OK, see you soon."
So where were all the men between the ages of 18 and 45? And yes, where were the survivors? Interesting questions that the liberal left newsies aren't asking!!
I stand corrected- you're right. The article doesn't use the words time stamp- but it does go into great detail showing the unlikelihood of the sequence of events if it happened the way Hizzballah says it did.
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