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"QANA, Lebanon - Israeli missiles crushed several buildings where Lebanese villagers were sleeping Sunday, killing at least 56 people, more than half of them children, in the deadliest attack of the campaign against Hezbollah. The missiles struck just after 1 a.m., leveling a three-story building in Qana where two extended families, the Shalhoubs and Hashims, had taken refuge in the basement from heavy Israeli bombardment in the area. Throughout the day, rescue workers dug through the rubble, lifting out bodies dressed in colorful clothes of women and children. At one point they found a single room with 18 bodies, police said. "Why are they killing us? What have we done?" screamed Khalil Shalhoub, who was helping pull out the dead until he saw his brother's body taken out on a stretcher. The dead included at least 34 children and 12 adult women, security officials said. Israel said guerrillas had fired rockets from near the building into northern Israel."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel

GG Israel. Get 'em before they grow up to be terrorists, am i rite?!?

7/30/2006 3:04:43 PM

lesson is

control your fucking border and country and this shit WON'T HAPPEN

7/30/2006 3:09:18 PM

A good lesson for all the children in the world.

7/30/2006 3:13:21 PM

more maybe, more importantly, for those RESPONSIBLE for those children

the lebanese are pathetic

you don't like the israelis bombing your country

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

fuck

7/30/2006 3:17:25 PM

You're just a cute little thing, aren't you?

7/30/2006 3:18:48 PM

freedom on the march?

7/30/2006 3:18:56 PM

^^

ahahahha, well, there goes all your opinions right out the window

7/30/2006 3:19:45 PM

(2 weeks ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning

(10 days ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning

(1 week ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning

(5 days ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning

(1 day ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning


(1 a.m. last night) Qana residents: OMG WTF You zionists should have warned us so that we could have moved our precious children from the middle of this war!

7/30/2006 3:52:18 PM

^stop making sense. we all know that this was just the work of the evil israeli army and the us!

7/30/2006 3:55:54 PM

^^well done, my friend

7/30/2006 4:10:24 PM

tell me, is it really that easy for a goat herder in southern lebanon, living in a mud shack or shitty concrete building, to pack up his/her entire life, jump into his/her invisible car, drive down the blown up highways to their mom's house in jordan?

is it?

7/30/2006 4:12:57 PM

there were modes of transportation provided by many organizations, so yes.

they could also avoid areas where hezbollah is operating, you know.

7/30/2006 4:14:40 PM

They should have used busses like we used here to evacuate people from hurricane Katrina.

7/30/2006 4:15:57 PM

I NO RITE!

7/30/2006 4:17:17 PM

"hmm...well leaving would be hard sooo...lets just all sit still!!!"

7/30/2006 4:20:13 PM

we're talking about new orleans right?

7/30/2006 4:24:15 PM

well....either one would do

7/30/2006 4:27:56 PM

how is this any different than a terrorist attack?

If only I could grasp the reasoning of you people.

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 4:28 PM. Reason : reword]

7/30/2006 4:28:19 PM

Hey, it's an alias.

7/30/2006 4:28:49 PM

oh christ. please don't post cxmai

7/30/2006 4:29:44 PM

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"If only I could grasp the reasoning of you people."

well...your a terrorist...so dont even try

7/30/2006 4:30:55 PM

Quote :

"your a terrorist"

7/30/2006 4:38:00 PM

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"(2 weeks ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning (10 days ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning (1 week ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning (5 days ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning (1 day ago) Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning (1 a.m. last night) Qana residents: OMG WTF You zionists should have warned us so that we could have moved our precious children from the middle of this war!"

cxmai: They were in a small town, RIGHT IN THE FUCKING WARZONE ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER. How can you POSSIBLY not level some responsibility on the adults there for not moving their children to safer ground?

If I were a parent, I would have grabbed my kids and gotten the hell out of dodge weeks ago. Fuck possessions or land, I value my children more than that.

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 4:41 PM. Reason : .]

7/30/2006 4:40:32 PM

More like:

Quote :

"Israel: Hey innocent civilians, if you're in southern Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and the center of where we are going to be concentrating on, then you need to leave because if you stay you're going to get hurt. This is your last warning. And oh yeah we took out the gas stations and roads and my fire on civilian traffic. Haha got you good, fuckers."

7/30/2006 4:42:46 PM

pffffff NO

everything is much simpler than that, didn't you know?

7/30/2006 4:45:08 PM

go where? where do you expect them to go? beirut?(leveled as well) syria? you do know syria can't feed anymore regugees, right? you do know that there is mass malnutrition amongst the refugees, right? hezbollah is still feeding people as we speak.

7/30/2006 4:45:40 PM

Not to mention they might not be able to afford to flee.

But you know, sorry for being a critical thinker.

7/30/2006 4:46:42 PM

isreal suspend airstrikes for 48 hrs

7/30/2006 5:07:45 PM

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"leveled as well"

and thats right....your a terrorist....

7/30/2006 5:32:25 PM

Learn English, please.

Also:

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""The building itself was not targeted," Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisen told CNN. "The building itself was next to the rocket-launcher sites and we are targeting all of those rocket-launcher sites. This was a mistake and we will have a full investigation.""

Oops!

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 5:39 PM. Reason : ]

7/30/2006 5:37:11 PM

Afford to flee? Are you FUCKiNG SERIOUS?

Qana is SEVEN MILES north of the Israeli border.

This isn't like walking from Coast to Coast here. You act like cars are the only way to get out. People have legs. And it's not like this is some fucking desert region where they will die without food or water. Almost all of the southern half of Lebanon is pretty damn fertile farmland.

THEY HAD TWO FUCKING WEEKS TO HAUL ASS OUT OF THERE. They are sitting right on the fucking border, in one of the hottest areas of militant activity in the world right now. How the fuck do you not put responsilibty on the guardians of those children?

7/30/2006 5:45:07 PM

Likely there are people who refuse to leave because they wanted to guard their homes and livelyhood. People did this in New Orleans. When you dont have things like insurance, american law enforcement, american justice system, etc, abandoning one's home is more risky.

Maybe these people could not afford to flea because they could not afford to lose what they were leaving.

7/30/2006 6:03:14 PM

like thier lives??...maybe??

7/30/2006 6:10:39 PM

Nothing unexpected, Israel's getting a high off killing people, so they let this out in the media to scare the muslims. I like how they call this an accident, but none of them will morn.

7/30/2006 6:14:24 PM

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"Afford to flee? Are you FUCKiNG SERIOUS? Qana is SEVEN MILES north of the Israeli border. "

The cost comes from the inflated cost of everything when they try to take refuge somewhere else, if they can find somewhere.

Dumbass

7/30/2006 6:29:58 PM

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"tell me, is it really that easy for a goat herder in southern lebanon, living in a mud shack or shitty concrete building, to pack up his/her entire life, jump into his/her invisible car, drive down the blown up highways to their mom's house in jordan?"

It's easier than trying to do the same after you're DEAD. Or perhaps some people don't get this concept. Property, homes everything are (or should be) meaningless when your life is on the line. If the US pisses off the world enough that someone sends notice to all of raleigh that in 2 weeks they're going to nuke raleigh, you better damn well be sure that I'm taking any means necessary to ensure that I am NOT in raleigh in 2 weeks, even if it means walking from here to the other end of the state.

7/30/2006 6:40:04 PM

Wow, must have been another surgical precision bomb, supplied by Papa Bush.

And FYI, this is the 2nd massacre in Qana by the Nazis.

The 1st was in 1996:

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"The Qana shelling took place on April 18, 1996 in Qana, a village located southeast of Tyre, Lebanon. Amid heavy fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah during "Operation Grapes of Wrath", a Fijian UNIFIL compound in the village was shelled by Israeli artillery. Around 800 Lebanese civilians had taken refuge there to escape the fighting, of whom 106 were killed and around 116 others injured. Four UNIFIL soldiers were also seriously injured. [1][2] The event has sometimes been referred to as the Qana massacre, for example by Human Rights Watch[3] and the BBC.[4]"

Wow, they just can't seem to use those SURGICAL BOMBS, properly, can they?

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"Israel immediately expressed regret for the loss of innocent lives, saying that the Hezbollah position and not the UN compound was the intended target of the shelling, and that the compound was hit "due to incorrect targeting based on erroneous data." Army Deputy Chief of Staff, Matan Vilnai stated that the shells hit the base not because they were off target, but because Israeli gunners used outdated maps of the area. He also stated that the gunners miscalculated the firing range of the shells."

YEAH SURE.

Read http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/robert_fisk_qana.html



Headless baby in QANA



These are clearly war crimes, and the Nazis should be prosecuted for them, but NO!!! Who can uphold the Nazis to human decency and international law?

NO ONE, as long as Papa Bush [and his predecessors and successors] vetoes any Resolution passed by the UN.


EDIT:

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"The U.N. appointed military advisor Major-General Franklin van Kappen of the Netherlands to investigate the incident. His conclusions were: (a) The distribution of impacts at Qana shows two distinct concentrations, whose mean points of impact are about 140 metres apart. If the guns were converged, as stated by the Israeli forces, there should have been only one main point of impact. (b) The pattern of impacts is inconsistent with a normal overshooting of the declared target (the mortar site) by a few rounds, as suggested by the Israeli forces. (c) During the shelling, there was a perceptible shift in the weight of fire from the mortar site to the United Nations compound. (d) The distribution of point impact detonations and air bursts makes it improbable that impact fuses and proximity fuses were employed in random order, as stated by the Israeli forces. (e) There were no impacts in the second target area which the Israeli forces claim to have shelled. (f) Contrary to repeated denials, two Israeli helicopters and a remotely piloted vehicle were present in the Qana area at the time of the shelling. While the possibility cannot be ruled out completely, it is unlikely that the shelling of the United Nations compound was the result of gross technical and/or procedural errors.[16]"

WOW, the Nazis are FUCKING LIARS!!! Big surprise, there, eh?

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"Amnesty International conducted an on-site investigation of the incident in collaboration with military experts, using interviews with UNIFIL staff and civilians in the compound, and posing questions to the IDF, who did not reply. Amnesty concluded, "the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound, although the motives for doing so remain unclear. The IDF have failed to substantiate their claim that the attack was a mistake. Even if they were to do so they would still bear responsibility for killing so many civilians by taking the risk to launch an attack so close to the UN compound.""

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 6:49 PM. Reason : ]

7/30/2006 6:44:28 PM

It sucks, but it also sucks that these Arab groups keep shacking up in civilian areas with the full intent of bringing on collateral damage.

7/30/2006 6:58:55 PM

THE JEWS ARE COMING

7/30/2006 7:01:22 PM

i side with israel, in general

and i'm as aware as anyone that shit like this happens from time to time, even when you're trying your best to avoid it

and they should've skipped town, and Lebanon should've done something about Hezbollah before it came down to this, and hezbollah ought to have enough sense and willingness to compromise that this should've never happened


BUT

academics aside, this is a huge tragedy, and it's unsat that some of you seem so indifferent to the plight of these people.

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 7:24 PM. Reason : asd]

7/30/2006 7:23:52 PM

Lebanon isn't able to do anything about Hezbollah, it would take a NATO force to disarm them.

7/30/2006 7:30:30 PM

i understand that, as things stand now. i see no reason that they couldn't beef up their military and/or request international assistance.

7/30/2006 7:32:06 PM

I was just thinking about the sex aspect of all this. I bet those people are having awesome war time sex. You're getting it on and bombs are exploding. Everything is more hectic, less permanent, less clear, and you gotta take the time out to get it on, to feel normal and human for just a little while. That's hot.

7/30/2006 7:35:36 PM

wtf

7/30/2006 7:40:41 PM

SPK keeps it real, son.

7/30/2006 7:53:56 PM

It's israel's "with us or against us" policy.

Why am I not put off by woman lacking political insight

7/30/2006 8:02:03 PM

the whole "they should have left approach is completely stupid"

This is like saying all of the Jews killed in WW2 should have left and are stupid.

or all Americans killed in terrorist attacks should have left the US because the Arab extremists warned then a long time ago.

half of you dumb fuckin rednecks born in the south wouldnt leave if the fuckin four horsemen were ridin up through Florida.

7/30/2006 8:17:24 PM

I guarantee that hezbollah placed those children and women there in the event that the rocket factory would be bombed. Its a typical tactic.

[Edited on July 30, 2006 at 8:25 PM. Reason : k]

7/30/2006 8:24:23 PM

yup

7/30/2006 8:25:39 PM

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"the whole "they should have left approach is completely stupid" This is like saying all of the Jews killed in WW2 should have left and are stupid. or all Americans killed in terrorist attacks should have left the US because the Arab extremists warned then a long time ago. half of you dumb fuckin rednecks born in the south wouldnt leave if the fuckin four horsemen were ridin up through Florida. "

7/30/2006 8:28:44 PM