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Originally posted by Lo:
I guess you missed the part about the hospital being a known Hezbollah headquarters....and the part about the kidnapped Israeli soldiers being either taken or treated there after their earlier capture from the Israeli side of the border.
You also probably missed the part which explained that the men who were killed or captured were heavily armed Hezbollah "guards" as well as the fact that the Israeli's were able to seize a large cache of weapons, including the infamous Kalashnikov rifles, as well as Hezbollah computer equipment, cell phones and "huge" amounts of Hezbollah documents and Hezbollah intelligence information.
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Does the fact that the word "Hezbollah" keeps turning up mean anything to you, Kevin? Not "doctor" not "nurses" not "sick people" not "surgical patients" but Hezbollah, Hezbollah, Hezbollah" over and over again?
Even on CNN.
Strange how you can keep missing that.
Lo
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Well, CNN did note that Israel had claimed it was a Hezbollah stronghold, but what sort of "stronghold" has only four "heavily armed" guards? Doesn't that sound an awful lot like them just going in and shooting hospital security? CNN also questioned whether the men captured were high-ranking Hezbollah members or simply five guys in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And get this quote from the NYPost article you linked:
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was asked whether any of the five men seized were "big fish," he replied, "They are tasty fishes."
Tasty? That's not a word I want to hear out of the lips of any world leader. It sounds, how should I put this? Ah yes, ghoulish. Also, likely an overstatement, since he could hardly say, "Well, it was a raid, what do you expect? We didn't have time for lengthy interviews. We think we've got one big fish, one vaguely appetizing fish, somebody's brother-in-law, the janitor, and some guy waiting for his wife to deliver. If it's any consolation, I heard we shot the wife."
Since the NYPost article doesn't even mention that nurses were shot--and they were interviewing the injured nurses live on CNN--one can only assume that the NYPost is pandering to the pro-Israel side and doesn't want to report on anything even possibly disquieting, including the fact that if you kill "at least ten others" and only enumerate four "heavily armed guards," it can be guessed that the other six plus were unarmed (elsewise the NYPost would be bragging about their armed-ness) and were likely doctors, nurses, patients and visitors, as one might expect at any working hospital.
As for the "treasure trove" of intelligence information, from the sound of it they grabbed a bunch of papers, computers and cell phones and are busy trumpeting DA-style the significanse of these things, despite the fact that it's going to take time to analyze them and figure out whether what they found behind Door Number 2 was the crown jewels or a can of SPAM. Likely somewhere in between, but not yet cause to brag except for propaganda purposes.
Anyway, CNN's coverage yesterday was not an interview with the soldiers who had done this "daring raid" but an interview with a couple nurses they'd shot. A detail the NYPost evidently felt irrelevant or inconsequential, or at best not likely to sell papers to its regular readership.
[This message has been edited by Kevin Andrew Murphy (edited August 04, 2006).]