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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (404)	7/15/2002 8:55:18 AM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 3959

Message 17736353

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (404)	7/15/2002 11:43:30 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

It is shooting in the head, shoulder and neck issue versus shooting in the leg. When you shoot above the leg you shoot to kill First of all, these were not unarmed protesters -- the Tanzim were shooting to kill. Second, this assumes that the comment is factual; since I have not seen it confirmed by B'tselem or any other organization I would trust (and you know that B'tselem basically runs around looking for Israeli human rights abuses), I do not regard electronicintifada as a trustworthy source of anything but propaganda. Third, notice how the figures we are discussing came only from one month 20 months ago? What has happened since? Fourth, the side that is deliberately targeting civilians has a lot of nerve to be shouting 'genocide' about its own casualties. For more recent analysis of intifada casualty figures meforum.org