Posted on 08/02/2006 2:44:43 AM PDT by Right to be Wrong
A French language Lebanese publication, citing an unnamed source in Hezbollah, has claimed that the organization placed a rocket launcher on the roof of the notorious building in Qana to provoke an Israeli attack and brought invalid children inside to serve as victims and blacken Israel's name.
The Lebanese magazine LIBANOSCOPIE, associated with Christian elements which support the anti-Syrian movement called the "March 14 Forces," report that Hizbullah masterminded a plan that would result in the killing of innocents in Qana, in an attempt to foil Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's "Seven Points Plan" calling for deployment of the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon and the disarming of Hizbullah. The magazine reported:
"We have it from a credible source that Hezbollah, alarmed by Siniora's plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations.... Hezbollah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the diplomatic initiative," the site stated.
The site's editors claimed that Hezbollah staged the event because of Qana's symbolic significance: "They used Qana because the village had already turned into a symbol for massacring innocent civilians, and so they set up 'Qana 2'." The incident has indeed been dubbed "The second Qana massacre" by the Arab media.
The scenario described, which has yet to be confirmed by a named source, would explain the fact that the victims were not residents of the building and also the disproportionate number of small children and the lack of adult males among them.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross reported on Monday that only 28 bodies, 19 of them children, were removed from the rubble. The count is half that of the 50-60 bodies still being reported by news agencies, quoting Lebanese security officials.
It's a Christian, pro-American publication, so it will not receive the same butt-kissing respect that CNN and its clones so readily give to Hezbollah.
Question for the libs: How does you negotiate with people capable of this?
2nd question: And why in God's name would you even want to?!
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Well said!
This staged event, this news "story", emphasizes again the power of propaganda in the current age.
Disinformation like Qana 2 has to be combatted, just like any other attack by the enemy.
In the current atmosphere, the studios and offices of organizations like Al-Jazeera are as legitimate of a military target as an Hezbo artillery battery and we need to wake up to that fact as a nation to achieve victoy.
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Agreed!
I know that my mouth flew open when I heard that a protestor in the so-called demonstration in Lebanon following the Qana incident carried a sign that referred to the alledged bombing as "US tax dollars at work". I remember saying to my husband that Hezbollux must have some Rats on their payroll to come up with such very American phrasing.
Figures. Of course, those on-the-ball newsies weren't fooled, not for a moment. /doIreallyneedtotagthisassarc?
"Figures. Of course, those on-the-ball newsies weren't fooled, not for a moment. /doIreallyneedtotagthisassarc?"
No sarc tag needed. One additional observation:
They (your on-the-ball-newsies) seem mighty quick to condemn Israel/US but slow to condemn real inhumane behavior? Much like Mr. Kofi. Almost as if they all had an agenda, a script if you will.
Wonder who (or what) is behind all the coordinated attacks?
And people ask me why I say these murderous lying scum need to put into concentration camps and deported! I still say all Muslims need to be rounded up and deported back to the middle east. Then erect a huge wall around their countries and just let them blow each other to bits!
It isn't necessarily a true fact that the Hezbos have American leftists on the payroll.
The fact that they are using such Americanisms only indicates that to the islamonazis, the propaganda theatre of this war is very important and they are willing to do their homework.
The coalition clearly can outgun these vermin, but its a cold fact that they have a decided advantage in propaganda. We have to 1. conduct a propaganda counter offensive, and 2. attack their propaganda by violent means by killing their "journalists" and collaborators.
Anyone who doesn't believe that propaganda is critically important needs to pick up a copy of Goebbels' WWII diary and see how nazis, islamo or otherwise, work the media.
yes they do, which tells me they are just as evil.Israel should just NUKE the place and the hell with what the rest of the world says.just my opinion
someone tell James Zogby wh BTW got bitch slapped by Alan Dershowitz tonight on larry King.
Dang, about time they put it out.
It hit the yard in the back of the building, they never hit the building.
Hmmm. I said that right after 9-11.
They took the bodies from Qana to Tyre... never done, always buried in their town... no one knows where the bodies are now.
Per John Batchelor Show on now http://www.wabcradio.com
BUMP :-(
Check this exchange out, between a cable News person (English or Australian ... probably English) and an Israeli spokesperson.
http://journals.aol.com/thefeedblog/AOLNewsTheFeed/entries/2006/08/02/video-tensions-overflow-during-interview/1972
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