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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-08-17 17:38:46
subject: Re: Israelis did use CBU...

From: "Gary Britt" 

Blame Hizbollah for making them unwilling parts of the Hizbollah defense
shield.  Hizbollah hides among civilians on purpose to cause civilian
casualties.  They turn those locations that include civilians into military
targets.  Got a problem call Hizbollah.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44e4c2e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So the 1996 Qana massacre of civilians was caused by Israeli pop tarts?
>
> I reckon one can count the massacre of the crew of the USS Liberty a
> military target
>
> How about
>
> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77507
> Researchers on the ground in Lebanon confirmed that a cluster munitions
> attack on the village of Blida on July 19 killed one and wounded at least
> 12 civilians, including seven children. Human Rights Watch researchers
> also photographed cluster munitions in the arsenal of Israeli artillery
> teams on the Israel-Lebanon border.
>
> According to eyewitnesses and survivors of the attack interviewed by Human
> Rights Watch, Israel fired several artillery-fired cluster munitions at
> Blida around 3 p.m. on July 19. The witnesses described how the artillery
> shells dropped hundreds of cluster submunitions on the village. They
> clearly described the submunitions as smaller projectiles that emerged
> from their larger shells.
>
> ----------
> There are monsters on either side of the conflict
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:44e4b726$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The difference being that Israel uses theirs on military targets and
>> Hizbollah always uses theirs on purely civilian targets.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
>> news:44e4a703$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> To me it depends on the context.  In describing an actual event then
>>> accuracy is important.
>>>
>>> Hezbollah uses inaccurate missiles loaded with Ball bearings. Israel
>>> uses
>>> Bombs with bomblets inside. One has little chance of killing anyone
>>> after it
>>> has gone off, the other does have the chance of unexploded bomblets
>>> killing
>>> people well after the initial explosion. Were I going into an area where
>>> the
>>> munitions had been used I'd definitely want to know which one was used .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Dave Ings"  wrote in message
>>> news:44e49ede{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Although Adam has taken me to task about it in the past :-) I have a
>>>> really hard time getting excited about whether deadly
weapon A is more
>>>> lethal and less moral to use in battle than deadly weapon B.
>>>>
>>>> The net result is the same within an order of magnitude - too many
>>>> people
>>>> die.
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave Ings,
>>>> Toronto, Canada
>>>>
>>>> "Robert G Lewis" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:44e49bb1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> How do you define Cluster Bomb ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>>>>> news:44e48abe{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> Hizbollah used cluster bombs in rockets fired at
Israel.  Does so all
>>>>>> the time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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