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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (193925)	7/31/2006 12:01:54 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Center left? Of what, Atilla the Hun? Whose word are you taking, the Israelis? I heard they didn't even bother to tell Rice about the situation. Why? I've also heard that the Israelis have made it impossible for civilians to flee anyway. So do you think they knew there were civilians there and bombed anyway? Do you think they made a mistake? You know, murder is murder. By convention, we accept some murders --- and even consider some murderers and mass murderers and serial murderers as heroes --- but in the end murder is murder and it is a pathetic state of affairs. "....Despite the bombing, the children had been whiling away the summer days playing on these rocky hillsides, neighbors and parents said. They rode bicycles down the slopes, and played make-believe with their dolls. They scrambled around playing hide and seek and soccer. "For sure, the drones must have recognized that there were children playing in the area," said Mohsen Hashem, a 30-year-old relative."They couldn't fight the resistance on the borderline," he said, "so they came here to fight civilians with their planes." When the bombing finally let up Sunday morning, Mohammed Ismael was one of the first to arrive. When the 38-year-old scrambled up the hill and saw what remained of the house, the silence filled him with dread. Everybody must have died, he thought. "I shouted and screamed," he said. "I started calling names, 'Are you all right?' And nobody answered." Hours after the explosion, dust clung to Ismael's moustache and coated his ears. His skinny arms were wrapped across his chest, he looked small and sad. "I knew they were all dead," he said. He saw a 7-year-old girl sprawled on the wreckage. He thought she was asleep then he noticed that her eyes were open. He scooped her up in his arms, and carried her out. That was the beginning of a day-long hunt for bodies. "Let America know," Ismael said, "that from now on, if a kid is one year old, we'll teach him how to fight America and fight Israel." Rescuers said they believe many of the victims had died slowly through the long night of bombs, their faces pinned to the dirt. The bombs had kept ambulances away until daybreak. Even then, a bomb fell a soccer-field's length from the first vehicle to arrive.... latimes.com