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Originally posted by Kevin Andrew Murphy:
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 hitting 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.
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.
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.
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You're entirely right, Kevin, one WOULD expect to find doctors, nurses, patients and visitors at any "working hospital." And one would hardly expect to find "four heavily armed guards" at a "working hospital." One would expect to find a few moonlighting off-duty cops with service revolvers on their belts hanging around the nurses station in the emergency room in the middle of the night.
Thing is - the hospital at Baalbek was NOT a "working hospital" - and that comes straight from the horse's mouth.
"Hezbollah fighters prohibited reporters from approaching the hospital, which they said had been emptied of patients at the beginning of the war. Local officials said a number of Hezbollah fighters and guards were inside."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...0200370_4.html
"The Israelis entered the hospital and were starting to leave when a larger force of Hezbollah fighters showed up and started a heavy firefight. Ali and his friends said that three fighters had been killed in the hospital battle, but a spokesman for the Israeli military said soldiers had killed at least 10 fighters there.
Ali was still sweaty and shaken on Wednesday as he talked about the fight. Though he dodged questions about his role, there were signs that he had been involved. His head was scratched and bruised, and several machine guns lay in the car he had pulled up in with two other young men. He walked around the hospital and grounds, working to clear traces of the battle. “They hit a civilian institution, and there was no one even inside it,” he insisted."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/wo...=1&oref=slogin
So honestly, Kevin, I don't know where CNN got it's "nurses." I've literally spent the last two hours online searching various news sources and web sites and I can't find one single reference to any civilians being present in the hospital at the time of the Israeli raid.
If you can help me out here, I'd truly appreciate it. I really don't like getting just one side of a story, and I've been follwing all of this with great interest, but I like for the things I'm reading to be backed up with something and so far, I can't find anything to back up your contention that there were nurses wounded or even that there were nurses present at the time of the attack.
Help me out here, ok?
Lo