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As sectarian violence in Iraq continues to escalates, U.S. forces are finding themselves caught between factions who have struggled against each other for more than a thousand years.
Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims are religiously incompatible and neither side wants to be dominated by the other. The terrorism seen daily on our television screens isn’t only directed at our forces, it’s clear that Sunnis and Shiites are also killing each other.
Hasn’t the time come when the United States should bid farewell to Iraq? Shouldn’t the Iraqi government we helped install be charged with dealing with this growing problem? Doesn’t the continued presence of U.S. forces invite charges that our nation is backing one or the other faction? Haven’t we suffered enough casualties in this latest undeclared and highly questionable war?
From the NewsBuster's blog:
Rachel Neuwirth writes in The American Thinker that the media have made the job of the terrorists much easier as the media provide the version of reality the terrorists hope to convey. The media never blame the terrorists who hide behind civilians who get killed, and Neuwirth writes that therefore the media are "directly complicit in enabling this tactic to continue and for more Lebanese civilians to be killed."
A major segment of the global media is behaving in a manner that makes terrorism and mass killings more likely rather than less likely. They enable and encourage terrorist slaughter of innocents by supplying providing a propaganda bonanza for the terrorist cause. Without the gain, there would be less incentive for the horrific behavior.
This is true now with Israeli defense measures against Hezbollah terrorism, and has been true for many years, especially during the long Arab-Israeli conflict. Not enough attention has been paid to media manipulation. It is long overdue that this be exposed and the media be confronted and held accountable.
When will the liberal media get it straight?
More information on the Qana tragedy that the Hezbollah concocted the tragedy comes from a Lebanese website, Libanoscopie. Hezbollah insurgents are afraid they are losing favor within the Lebanon government and will try anything to prolong the conflict with Israel.
…associated with Christian elements in the country and which openly supports the anti-Syrian movement called the "March 14 Forces," reported that Hezbollah has masterminded a plan that would result in the killing of innocents in the Qana village, in a bid to foil Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's "Seven Points Plan", which calls for deployment of the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon and the disarming of Hezbollah.
"We have it from a credible source that Hezbollah, alarmed by Siniora's plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations. Knowing full well that Israel will not hesitate to bombard civilian targets, Hezbollah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the negotiation initiative," the site stated. (ynetnews.com)
Hezbollah are truly terrorists who have no compassion for innocent civilian lives, especially children. I looks like they are wearing out their welcome in Lebanon.
The world, especially the Arab countries are condemning Israel for the attack on Qana in Lebanon that supposedly caused the death of 57 civilians. Many of them were children sleeping in the basement when the building collapsed.
But, the facts show the attacked occurred around midnight and the building did not collapse until eight hours later.
And why would the victims continue sleeping in the basement after the building was just attacked?
The attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear," Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters told journalists at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, following the incidents at Qana.
Eshel and the head of the IDF's Operational Branch, Major General Gadi Eisnkot said the structure was not being attacked when it collapsed, at around 8:00 in the morning.
The IDF believes that Hezbollah explosives in the building were behind the explosion that caused the collapse. (ynet.com)
Besides, there is a strong possibility that Hezbollah are behind the actual building collapse. And there is some questions on the photos release by many of the news agencies on site. A post on EU Referendum shows many of the photos (beware they are quite graphic) and the same "rescue worker" is in all of them. Also, many of the bodies in the pictures may be the same body used in different poses and it looks like it has been dead for a long time judging by the ashen color.
Apparently, the Hezbollah may be using the shock value of the pictures of the dead to gain sympathy from the world.
It is noted in another post on EU Referendum, that the same rescue worker appears in other photos taken on 18 April 1996 in Qana after another attack in another war in.
The Hezbollah are cowards. They hide behind women and children using them for shields. They dress in civilian attire to disperse into crowds of civilians after they launch a rocket or high caliber attack against Israel. All civilian deaths can be blamed on the Hezbollah cowards.
The Herald Sun in Australia just published some very damning photos of these cowards. These photos were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out of Lebanon.
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut and did not wish to be named said he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so lucky it was not more." (Herald Sun)
Hezbollah in the Middle East has been causing major grief to US citizens for over 20 years. The following list of dates show the evidence that the Hezbollah are hard core terrorists. (The source of this list is from a comment on www.zionist.com):
July 19, 1982: The president of the American University in Beirut, Davis S. Dodge, is kidnapped. Hezbollah is believed to be behind this and most of the other 30 Westerners kidnapped over the next ten years.
April 18, 1983: Hezbollah attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 63 people, 17 of whom were American citizens.
Oct. 23, 1983: The group attacks U.S. Marine barracks with a truck bomb, killing 241 American military personnel stationed in Beirut as part of a peace-keeping force. A separate attack against the French military compound in Beirut kills 58.
Sept. 20, 1984: The group attacks the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut with a car bomb, killing 2 Americans and 22 others.
March 16, 1984: William F. Buckley, a CIA operative working at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, is kidnapped and later murdered.
April 12, 1984: Hezbollah attacks a restaurant near the U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain. The bombing kills eighteen U.S. servicemen and injures 83 people.
Dec. 4, 1984: Hezbollah terrorists hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane. Four passengers are murdered, including two Americans.
Feb. 16, 1985: Hezbollah publicizes its manifesto. It notes that the group’s struggle will continue until Israel is destroyed and rejects any cease-fire or peace treaty with Israel.
Tensions between Iran and Israel are coming to a boiling point. The British Sunday Times reports Israeli Prime Minister Sharon announced that Israeli will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran in March of next year against Iran's nuclear facilities. Intelligent sources believe Iran will have the capabilities to start producing nuclear weapons by March 2006 which is the point of no return for Israel security.
Iran's President Mahmoud Amadinejad recently made public statement about the need of annihilating Israel. And this week suggested Israel should be moved to Europe. Sharon decided the pre-emptive strike was needed after these threatening statements were made by Iran's President.
Israel is planning on deploying their special forces brigade, Unit 262 and the F-15I strategic 69 Squadron, which can strike Iran and return to Israel without refueling.
A major obstacle for the strike is that Russia will soon be selling to and setting up Iran with the advanced Tor-M systems capable of destroying guided missiles and laser-guided bombs from aircraft.
Although diplomatic options have not been ruled out by Sharon.
Israeli officials declined to respond to the report directly, but Sharon's spokesman Raeann Gissin did say, "Israel has no intention of launching an attack against Iran, definitely not before all diplomatic options have been exhausted."
He stressed that "Israel is not leading the campaign against Iran," but that that whole international community – chiefly the US and Europe – has been concerned and active on the issue.
Source: Jerusalem Post
This developing situation also directly will affect the United States and European nations.
A Little known fact, not reported by most of our main stream media, is last weeks incursion of U.S. and Iraqi forces into Syria from the Iraq side. The operation main object was to get at the terrorist camps operating in Syria.
Last month many artillery attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces originated from Syria soil.
Officials reported that 10 Marines were killed in fighting during this operation. And a total of 139 terrorists were killed and 256 were processed for detention during the operation.
Iran is getting very close in becoming the next nuclear power threat in the Middle East. Coming to the defense of Iran, Russia has signed an unprecedented agreement with Iran to sell them 29 of its Tor M-1 anti-missile systems. This development will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the rogue nation's nuclear facilities.
This anti-missile system could give the Iranian military the capabilities to intercept some cruise missiles if any country tries to challenge their growing nuclear threat.
The Russians are claiming they have the legal right to sell the arms as specified in the secret 1995 Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol. Thank you Mr. Gore!
The Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol was first disclosed publicly in 2000. It was the result of secret talks between then Vice President Al Gore and Russia's then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. After the revelations in 2000, the State Department acknowledged Gore assured Russia that, under the provisions of the agreement, the U.S. would not sanction the Kremlin for Russian arm sales to Iran – through 1999.
One must wonder how many other secret agreements have been made between our government and other foreign governments that could affect the safety and well being of our military in the Middle East and general stability of the Middle East that is on very shaky grounds.
Bible prophecy experts have indicated that Russia will be a leading threat in the Middle East against Israel. Last month I reported that the purpose of Russia's presence in the Middle East in the Gaza Strip was to help the Palestinian Authority security forces enforce law and order. Much of the PLO and PA's weapons and equipment has been provided by the former USSR.
Hamas terrorist activities has a new stronghold in the the former Israeli territory. This development was feared when the Gaza was given over to the Palestine Authority
The Palestinian Authority has admitted in an official document published last month that parts of Gush Katif, the former Jewish communities of Gaza, are now "training camps" for terror groups.
In an exclusive story in October, WND reported Hamas has turned Neve Dekalim, the former capital of Gush Katif, into a "martyrs training camp," and has used the territory to fire rockets into Israel.
Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef toured Gaza's former Jewish communities and detailed a PA plan to bring security to the area. Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in August, the land that comprised Gush Katif has been the scene of regular internal Palestinian clashes.
Early in November, officials placed barbed wire around Neve Dekalim, as well as signs posted in Arabic which describe the neighborhood as a "closed military zone."
Senior Hamas sources told WND the group transformed Dekalim into a "military training camp for martyrs," boasting that several Qassam rockets have been fired from the former Jewish capital into nearby Israeli Negev towns.
Hamas has taken credit for Israel's Gaza withdrawal and has become a formidable force in the area. It swept local municipal elections, and analysts expect the terror group to do well in upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections.
Soure Article: WorldNetDaily.com