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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (206454)	5/22/2007 4:13:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793917

Update on the fighting at Nahr el Bared near Tripoli, as blogged from a BBC World Report: Third consecutive day of artillery and tank shelling of the Narh el Barad camp. Only a few hundred Fatah al Islam fighters entrenched among the civilian population; rumours of truces to allow the wounded to be evacuated, but no sign of a letup. Lebanese goverment official says they have a duty to protect their own civilian population from the fire coming from the camp. Needless to say, if it was Israeli troops shelling the camp, the headline "Massacre at Nahr el Bared" would appear all over the world, with casualty figures in the thousands reported as fact. Amnesty International etc. would denounce the "war crime" of attacking the civilian population to get at the 'militants' among them. Interestingly, the only two people quoted from Lebanon were the BBC reporter and a spokesman for the Lebanese government. No Palestinians at all. When there is fighting in Gaza or the WB, the BBC always gives twice as much airtime to Palestinian spokesmen as to Israelis (somebody documented this during the 2nd intifada).

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