[Lancey Howard]

Sharkawi, a co-ordinator for emergency services, told me, "I cannot understand what the Israelis are thinking. They also used one of our ambulances today as a human shield. They sandwiched it inside a convoy."

Say what?

[DoughtyOne]

Cry me a river...

Not you Pokey, but sheesh! This is war. It's what Arasplat wanted. Now rejoice oh Palestinians.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, if the Israelis ever show these terrorists "mercy", they are finished.

[Entropy Squared]

It doesn't seem likely they would unnecessarily blow away those brains before they had extracted the last of the information they contained.

[zeaal]

"They were executed in cold blood ..."

No, in cold-blood is setting at a cafe with your friends and family enjoying a spring evening and being blasted with shards of glass and screws and nails packaged into the suicide murderers bomb. In cold-blood is running an errand for your mom to the local pharmacy at mid-day and being murdered by a fanatical young woman or man that has been talked into being a suicide murderer.

The men that were found dead in Arafat's compound were men that are known combatants. They were armed and ready to kill or be killed.

[Enlightiator]

This writers story is so biased it stinks. Nothing but quotes from Palestineans, not a word from the Israeli side of the story. It sound like hes been with the Palenstines so long he's one of them now....

[jerrymdss]

"Israeli's execute Arafat's elite guard."

That is NOTHING compared to the barbaric suicide bombers targeted innocent civilians -- these guys were guilty by association.

[restornu]

Without mercy
REMEMBER DANIEL PEARL

[blu]

/sarcasm on

Gee, nothing like an objective report. The part about the palms was an especially nice touch, don't you think?

/sarcasm off

[Palladin]

Nu? {Shrugging shoulders.....}

[xm177e2]

Membership in Force 17 should be considered a war crime. Executions of uniformed soldiers are prohibited, but Force 17 is not a military organization, it is a criminal one.

[JDGreen123]

A few minutes later, the paramedics brought the second body, that of a young man, also in Yasser Arafat's elite guard unit, Force 17.

I guess if this wacko reporter had been around in WWII Berlin as it fell his story would have been:

A few minutes later, the paramedics brought the second body, that of a young man, also in Adolph Hitler's elite guard unit, the SS or perhaps an innocent member of the patriotic and outmanned Hitler Youth.

[redbaiter]

The devastation that these tanks have wrought inside the Palestinians' most attractive city has to be seen to be believed....Buildings are burned and shattered. Everywhere there is rubble, spent ammunition and broken glass.

Sounds like the aftermath of one of Arafat's suicide bombings. Minus all the severed limbs of course.

[AIBC]

One thing is for sure: Terrorists put pressure on Sharon but he will go down together with Arafat and his murderers. After Sharon is gone (not any time soon, hpefully) the PA will never be the same.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Well, duh......how long did the Palestinean murderers think they could keep killing innocent people before they pi$$ed off those from among whom they chose their victems, to the point that they started repaying in kind. Those elite guards of Arafat probably shot themselves in their own head-suicide is in the Palestinean gene, as we all well know.

[LowOiL]

Hassan Asfour, a senior Palestinian negotiator, added: 'They were executed in cold blood. This is a clear example of the collective execution policy adopted by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.'

What....This fellow has things a little mixed up. It is the Pals who execute in cold blood, these men were armed and could defend themselves. It is the Pal bombers that execute in cold blood. Perhaps this Palestinian negotiator thinks we are stupid.

[denydenydeny]

The devastation that these tanks have wrought inside the Palestinians' most attractive city has to be seen to be believed. Roads have been dynamited or torn up by tanks. Buildings are burned and shattered. Everywhere there is rubble, spent ammunition and broken glass.

Sniff. Sniff.

[Goldi-Lox]

What happened on the third floor of the Cairo-Amman bank at midnight on Friday during Israel's occupation of the Palestinian city of Ramallah can only be surmised. But in the few minutes after Israeli soldiers stormed the Palestinian position, five men were wounded and five men were put to death by the Israelis, each with a single coup de grace administered to the head or throat.

What happened to this article is that the writer is a self-proclaimed forensic expert, medical examiner, judge, and jury, without having any official examination conducted at all. More than likely, the writer just was standing on the sidelines taking notes, and dreaming up this article. This is pure conjecture and bull$hi*. It is also specifically written to make the Palies look like the victems, when they are bloodthirsty, cowardly, coldhearted, evil thugs. It tries to make military men and women fighting to maintain order in their country - overrun with these thugs - look like the villian.

Well, it ain't goina work. We here in these United States can smell a varmit a mile off. And this writer is a varmit-lover.

[SauronOfMordor]

I think the Israelis are sending a message to the Palestinians: Time to emigrate to somewhere else -- far away from Israel

[Enlightiator]

'They also used one of our ambulances today as a human shield. They sandwiched it inside a convoy.'

Consider this biased pro-palestinian puff piece with this recent thread:

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said at the weekend it was "shocked and dismayed" that explosives were hidden by Palestinians in a Palestine Red Crescent Society's (PRCS) ambulance.