Thursday, July 27, 2006

Hizbollah used UN bunker as Shield

Breaking.......looking for confirmation, will update.

Update: The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed in an Israeli bombing of a UN post in Lebanon are evidence Hezbollah was using the post as a "shield" to fire rockets into Israel, says a former UN commander in Bosnia.

Those words, written in an e-mail dated just nine days ago, offer a possible explanation as to why the post -- which according to UN officials was clearly marked and known to Israeli forces -- was hit by Israel on Tuesday night, said retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie yesterday.

The strike hit the UN observation post in the southern Lebanese village of El Khiam, killing Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three others serving as unarmed UN military observers in the area.

This is something I and many of my readers have suspected from the beginning. If they're willing to use their own women and children as "shields" it certainly isn't a stretch they would do the same with a UN outpost.

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