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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SARMAN who wrote (14547)	7/30/2006 8:04:17 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State alternet.org

To: SARMAN who wrote (14547)	7/30/2006 8:23:43 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

And what if the IDF didnt blow up that building? IDF Begins to Question Cause of Explosion in Kfar Kana 02:27 Jul 31, '06 / 6 Av 5766 by Hana Levi Julian An initial IDF inquiry has revealed that Israel may not have been to blame for the explosion that killed more than 50 civilians in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kana on Sunday. Most of the world’s nations were in an uproar over an attack on a cluster of buildings in Kfar Kana that killed more than 50 civilians early Sunday, half of whom were children. The condemnations came despite the fact that the IDF dropped leaflets into the village five days earlier, warning the residents of the impending attack and advising them to leave the war zone. Israel initially took responsibility for the attack, since it was indeed carrying out strikes in the area since Hizbullah terrorists often store weapons caches in residential buildings and set up their rocket launchers between the buildings in areas with a concentrated civilian population. Senior IDF officers told reporters at a news conference Sunday evening, however, that there is a contradiction between the time of the bombing and reports of the explosion. Air Force Commander Amir Eshel left open the possibility that Hizbullah terrorists blew up the building or that an unknown cause set off explosives which were stored in the structure. He explained that recorded information shows that Israeli Air Force planes bombed the building between midnight and 1:00 a.m. and that the next attack was at 7:30 a.m. and was up to 500 yards away. Eshel said reports of the explosion that caused the civilian deaths came around 8:00 a.m. "It is not clear what happened" between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., he said. IDF Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz told the Hebrew newspaper Ma’ariv after a meeting with President Moshe Katsav that the military did not know that civilians remained in the village. Halutz explained that IDF intelligence equipment can detect missile launchers but not civilians, who apparently were inside buildings where aerial surveillance could not detect them. "Had we known there were that many civilians inside, especially women and children, we certainly would not have attacked it," a senior air force commander told Reuters News Agency. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday after the incident that Kfar Kana and environs are a "center for Katyusha firing on Kiryat Shmona and Afula... Dozens of Katyushas have been fired from there, and the terrorists hide there after firing the rockets." Olmert emphasized that the residents had often been warned that they must leave the area. "Israel does not have a policy of killing innocent people," the Prime Minister added. Brigadier General Ido Nehushtan pointed out that Hizbullah terrorists have fired more than 150 rockets from the village since the beginning of the war. Kfar Kana was the scene of a similar tragedy ten years ago in which 100 civilians were killed during the Israeli “Operation Grapes of Wrath,” also aimed at ending Katyusha attacks on northern Israeli communities.

To: SARMAN who wrote (14547)	7/31/2006 9:23:12 AM
From: Cage Rattler	Respond to of 32591

Spin? Facts that do not agree with your opinion are "spun"? Give me a break -- try to maintain an open-minded attitude if you can. The "brave men" of Hezbollah have ruthlessly and routinely used the skirts of innocent women and the smiles of children to their advantage -- so why would anyone be surprised that they might perpetrate such carnage for their own political gain? Have you noticed, that after your posting, there have been numerous substantiating commentaries surfacing. -- Let's hope the truth of Hezbollah’s routine atrocities surfaces some place higher up than on page six, section Z, of the NYT.