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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: Photos that damn Hezbollah |
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Suburban warfare: Hezbollah fighters are ready for action in a residential area.
On guard: A militant watches over a no-go zone
Photos that damn Hezbollah
Chris Link
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July 30, 2006 12:00am
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THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.
The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
They emerged as:
US President George Bush called for an international force to be sent to Lebanon.
ISRAEL called up another 30,000 reserve troops.
THE UN's humanitarian chief Jan Egeland called for a three-day truce to evacuate civilians and transport food and water into cut-off areas.
US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a UN resolution aimed at ending the 18-day war, and:
A PALESTINIAN militant group said it had kidnapped, killed and burned an Israeli settler in the West Bank.
The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun metres from an apartment block with sheets hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47 rifle guarding no-go zones after Israeli blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in the middle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack.
The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut and did not wish to be named said he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so lucky it was not more."
The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as "human shields".
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as "cowards" for operating among civilians.
"When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children," he said. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:08 am Post subject: |
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one, there are not MANY people on this board that don't think Hezbollah are
1) not at fault
2) nice guys
3) peaceful
two, I could find pictures just like that of crazy fanatics in some of those weird American states. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Considering that hysterical western media is now ranting against the terrible israelis, i think they should be asking the questions-
1) Why does hezbollah site their rocket launchers smack in the middle of residential areas with civilians?
2) how do you tell an innocent civilian from a hezbollah fighter?
3) Do hezbollah warriors cry when they draw fire on their own people? |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
one, there are not MANY people on this board that don't think Hezbollah are
1) not at fault
2) nice guys
3) peaceful
two, I could find pictures just like that of crazy fanatics in some of those weird American states. |
Right, so the Michigan Militia is singularly focused on destroying Canada in any way possible and raise their little wolverines to become Holy Wolverine Suicide Bombers, hoping against hope that their little Christian sons die in glorious firey flames in heathen/agnostic Canadian discos and pizzerias.
Moral equivalency.....a dying art of the loony left..... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
| laogaiguk wrote: |
one, there are not MANY people on this board that don't think Hezbollah are
1) not at fault
2) nice guys
3) peaceful
two, I could find pictures just like that of crazy fanatics in some of those weird American states. |
Right, so the Michigan Militia is singularly focused on destroying Canada in any way possible and raise their little wolverines to become Holy Wolverine Suicide Bombers, hoping against hope that their little Christian sons die in glorious firey flames in heathen/agnostic Canadian discos and pizzerias.
Moral equivalency.....a dying art of the loony left..... |
As if a lack of proximity to the target makes the Michigan Militia less loopy? Doesn't the lack of a tangible antagonist make them even loopier? |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:50 am Post subject: |
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whatever.
way to give another gasp to the dying artform of moral equivalency |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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I don't really get why these pictures are 'damning' exactly. Yes Hezbollah operate in and around civilians, but don't lots of armies, in lots of warzones do the same thing all the time??
It's a war - so you'd expect your enemy to try and hide - and experience would have shown that Israel aren't deterred by shields, human or otherwise. |
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
I don't really get why these pictures are 'damning' exactly. Yes Hezbollah operate in and around civilians, but don't lots of armies, in lots of warzones do the same thing all the time??
It's a war - so you'd expect your enemy to try and hide - and experience would have shown that Israel aren't deterred by shields, human or otherwise. |
If that were really true then Lebanon would have been destroyed for real. |
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