From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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_fighting_06
0725/20060725?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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