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Manner of Speaking
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 Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: UN Probes Israeli Killing of UN Monitors - Appeals Ignored |
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Probe into Israeli killing of UN monitors unable to determine why appeals were ignored
29 September 2006 � A board of inquiry into an Israeli attack in Lebanon that killed four United Nations military observers in July had no access to the commanders involved and was therefore unable to determine why the attacks were not halted despite repeated appeals from UN personnel, Secretary-General Kofi Annan�s spokesman said today.
The Board, appointed by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) as standard procedure in such circumstances, noted that the Israeli authorities accepted full responsibility for the attack on the UN post at Khiyam and apologized for what they say was an �operational level� mistake, the spokesman added in a statement.
But he added: �The Board did not have access to operational or tactical level IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) commanders involved in the incident, and was therefore unable to determine why the attacks on the UN position were not halted despite repeated demarches to the Israeli authorities from UN personnel, both in the field and at Headquarters.�
Immediately after the attack with a 500-kilogram, precision-guided aerial bomb on 25 July, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed �deep sorrow.� On the day that the four observers � from Austria, Canada, China and Finland � were killed, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said 21 strikes were made within 300 metres of the patrol base, with the UN protesting each one to the IDF. UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown also made several calls to Israel�s UN mission.
After UNIFIL headquarters lost contact with the base, it coordinated safe passage for two armoured personnel carriers which pushed through and discovered the shelter collapsed and the four observers dead. Despite repeated requests to the IDF to desist, firing was maintained during the rescue operation and continued to strike near UNIFIL positions, UN officials said at the time.
The Security Council called on Israel to conduct a comprehensive inquiry and Mr. Annan suggested a joint UN-Israeli investigation. Today�s statement said the Board�s report concluded that all standard UN operating procedures had been followed and there was no additional action UN personnel could have taken that would have avoided the outcome.
Mr. Annan once again paid tribute to the four who gave their lives in the cause of peace and reiterated his heartfelt condolences to their families.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20079&Cr=leban&Cr1= |
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Junior
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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They deserved it.UNIFIL sheltered and allowed hesbollah to fire from their positions. They also broadcast Israeli troop locations to hesbollah.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/622bqwjn.asp
DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon. |
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Manner of Speaking
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah right.
Four guys - all UN peacekeepers - "allow" a terrorist group to set up a missile site on the grounds of their observation post. Can you try proving that one?
If they did assist Hizbollah, then why did Israel "accept full responsibility for the attack on the UN post at Khiyam and apologize for what they say was an �operational level� mistake"? There would have been no need to. And why wouldn't Israel have just said, "the UN observers were aiding the Hizbollah", and provided evidence to back the allegation?
If the UN observer post at Khiyam was aiding the Hizbollah, why didn't the UN board of inquiry find any evidence of this, or make any mention of it in their report? And why would four professional career officers - from countries as disparate as Austria, China, Canada and Finland - suddenly decide to throw their professional careers away and take it into their head to help the Hizbollah?
Don't be so effing stupid. 
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Junior
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| And just how do you get to decide who lives or dies? |
Just reply to the evidence.
UN peacekeeper behaves like the enemy?= must be the enemy. |
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Summer Wine
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Junior, you are just being provocative. It was probably an accident as Hezbelloh were within 100 mtrs of the base.
Precision weapons according to a Professor.
WW2 - anything within 5 km
Vietnam - anything within 1 km
Iraq War 1991 - 100 mtrs
Future - window
Though we are talking aerial and not artillary. Maybe they just screwed up or just didn't care. It happens in War. WW2 a NZ General made a decision to spend 1000 dead on a objective, after he recieved 1000 dead he called off the attack.
War is not pretty. |
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Junior
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Quote Summer Wine:
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| It was probably an accident as Hezbelloh were within 100 mtrs of the base. |
I guess. Both sides made mistakes. Hezbollah was certainly far from innocent.
LONDON -- The Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights group Amnesty International said today.
It said around a quarter of the nearly 4,000 rockets that Hezbollah launched into Israel during the 34-day war were fired directly into urban areas.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/14/rights_group_alleges_hezbollah_war_crimes/
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Do you have a stutter, or do you just like to confuse everyone? |
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Manner of Speaking
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Lucky for you, you weren't born a woman, Junior.
You'd have trouble counting up to 28 every month. |
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