From: "Rich Gauszka" 

 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.



"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_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
>> 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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