From: "Mark" 

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. 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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_
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
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>>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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