From: "Mark" 

Yea, Remember the "Maine" too... 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> well lets see - unarmed observers in a well marked post ( for years ) were
> targeted and blown up. Sure has signs of deliberate for me. Just like a US
> navy vessel in international waters that was machine gunned for hours -
> the Israelis expressed 'regret' at that also.
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:44c6e636$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Nope, I'm saying if the UN was worth anything at all, they'd have done
>> what they said they'd do lo so many years ago. They didn't, they *caused*
>> this war, and if they suffer collateral damage because of it, it's their
>> own fecklessness that brought it on. > their position was deliberately targeted, but you seem to take them at
>> their feckless word that it was -- why? Why believe them?, what have they
>> done for the world lately, or ever?>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:44c6e31e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> So I guess it's ok with you to purposely kill  observers  from China,
>>> Finland, Austria and Canada just as long as they were from the UN?
>>>
>>> Got to watch out for those 'lame' Red Cross vans now?
>>>
>>>
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060724/israel_fightin
g_060725/20060725?hub=CTVNewsAt11
>>>
>>> But, Sunil Ram, a defence and security analyst, told CTV Newsnet that
>>> the Israelis had shelled the base at least 14 times before bombing it
>>> with what was clearly a guided bomb.
>>>
>>> UN posts like this are very well marked. The Israelis knew it was there;
>>> it's been there for years.
>>> "But then when the Indians tried to send a rescue mission
in there, they
>>> then shelled the troops who were trying to get to the post. So how much
>>> more deliberate do you want it to be?"
>>>
>>> On Monday, vans marked with Red Crosses had come under fire.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>>> news:44c6de44$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>I can't think of any reason to believe anything the UN
says, especially
>>>>Kofi. What are UN "observers" still doing there
anyway? Weren't those
>>>>same lame "observers" that have been twiddling
their thumbs since 1978
>>>>("interim" force indeed) supposed to be disarming
Hizzbullah starting 6
>>>>years ago rather than "observing"? >>>promised?, would we be where we are, would those 4
"observers" be dead?>
>>>>
>>>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
in message
>>>> news:44c6c3cc{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> The UN should have learned from the lessons of the USS
Liberty. The
>>>>> Israelis don't like observers and will purposely target them
>>>>>
>>>>> http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1084162006
>>>>>
>>>>> AN ISRAELI air raid in south Lebanon killed four UN
military observers
>>>>> yesterday, in an attack that Kofi Annan, the United Nations
>>>>> secretary-general, said was "apparently deliberate".
>>>>>
>>>>> The four observers were part of the UN peacekeeping
mission, UN and
>>>>> Lebanese officials said.
>>>>>
>>>>> Speaking after yesterday's attack on the UN site,
Milos Strugar, a
>>>>> spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, said:
"One aerial bomb
>>>>> directly impacted the building and shelter in the base
of the United
>>>>> Nations Observer Group in Lebanon in the area of Khiyam."
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr Strugar said attacks had continued in the area as rescuers
>>>>> attempted to reach the wounded.
>>>>>
>>>>> "There were 14 other incidents of firing close to
this position in the
>>>>> afternoon from the Israeli side, and the firing
continued during the
>>>>> rescue operation," he added.
>>>>>
>>>>> In a statement issued at UN headquarters in New York,
Mr Annan said:
>>>>> "I am shocked and deeply distressed by the
apparently deliberate
>>>>> targeting by Israeli defence forces of a UN observer
post in southern
>>>>> Lebanon.
>>>>>
>>>>> "This co-ordinated artillery and aerial attack on
a long-established
>>>>> and clearly marked UN post at Khiyam occurred despite personal
>>>>> assurances given to me by prime minister Ehud Olmert
that UN positions
>>>>> would be spared Israeli fire," Mr Annan added.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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