BBC: Rioting against the UN in Beruit.....(Breaking News)

[BooScout]

No link yet. It's being shown live on the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

They are throwing stones at the UN Building in Beruit. They are protesting in Beruit in support of Hizbollah.

Will link as soon as it becomes available.

ETA link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5228224.stm

[BooScout]

1. More people pouring in...

People are continuing to stream in. Angry over continued attacks. Shouting slogans against Israel, the US and the UN. (still no link)

[xultar]

2. I can't say I wouldn't do the same if I were in there shoes. Israel won't

allow rescue from the UN through.

How sick is that?

[Scurrilous]

3. Rice unwelcome before ceasefire: Lebanon

<snip>

"Lebanon told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday that it could not meet with her before a ceasefire ends a 19-day-old Israeli offensive, Lebanese officials said.

The officials said Rice, who was due in Beirut later on Sunday, was informed of the Lebanese position after an Israeli airstrike killed more than 40 civilians in south Lebanon.

They said Rice's visit to Beirut has been canceled."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-30T082202Z_01_L30612905_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-LEBANON-RICE.xml

[BooScout]

4. I hope to god no one is inside....

There's no one there to stop them. They out number any riot police in the area.

[Ghost Dog]

5. I believe a UN humanitarian relief convoy only reached Beirut

just yesterday...

(edit: I don't have live BBC broadband. Listening to World Service Radio now - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/worldservice.shtml# )

[BooScout]

9. I'm in the UK

So I am watching it live. It's not pretty.

[Ghost Dog]

14. Several hundred people now forcing their way through front doors:

Latest World Service news bulletin.

--> This, in response to report of the civilian deaths in Quana / Kana, they say.

[Scurrilous]

28. They don't look happy.

[umtalal]

17. Really??? Trying looking at the Qana massacre. n/t

[BooScout]

40. What I meant...

Was that I was watching it live on British tv........which at the time I posted this morning was not being shown live anywhere in the States. Thanks for your smartass nothing contributed comment.:eyes:

[BooScout]

6. The Lebanese prime Minister's office is next door...

The buildings are surrounded.

[BooScout]

7. Rice calls for Unconditional ceasefire....

Two weeks too fucking late. Bitch.

[theHandpuppet]

30. No kidding.

Sometimes I wish I did believe in hell just so I could watch the whole Bushreich roasting over an eternal fire.

[mom cat]

31. Link?

[Ghost Dog]

33. No, it was a brief misunderstanding vía Reuters

See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2422835

Seems Condi's been saying just 'ceasefire, soon, as per original conditions/plan' (though maybe she was wobbling?).

[mom cat]

36. She just wants to appear less evil today!

[xchrom]

8. things bush world are going so smoothly.

[Binka]

10. Creating Crisistunities Every Chance They Get

I am so sick of all these EVIL FUCKS.

[xchrom]

15. i'm in your parade, binka!

how are things?

[countryjake]

11. They probably saw the news about Qana...

someone better begin to listen to the terror that is going on in Lebanon. I'm watching them pulling body after body of Lebanese refugees out of a destroyed building (on CNN)...tiny little bodies, in their jammies, old people, women.

Someone is going to pay for outrages like this.

Precision-guided indeed.

And the press is there, this time.

[BooScout]

12. That set it off....

The proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

[BooScout]

13. Security forces in riot gear arriving....

They have just started arriving. Don't know what will happen next.

[countryjake]

22. They were setting up a PA system & the crowd was cheering & jumping...

just before they cut to Ms. Rice's press conference. The Lebanese Prez said on CNN that there was no place for Condi in Beirut. When the commentator asked why, he said they were crying in Lebanon this morning, that they had been screaming for a cease-fire for weeks, that now it was time for the UN to investigate the destruction of the refugee building in Qana, that war crimes had been committed against his country. Condi...I don't think so!

[BooScout]

16. Security forces clearing people....

Clerics also there clearing people. Looks like they are clearing it peacefully. Crowds being pushed in the square and away from the building. Crowds are shouting 'free Beruit'.

[BooScout]

18. Looks like Israel & the US has managed....

...to unite Israel behind Hizbollah rather than destroy it they have strengthened it.

[chiffon]

19. The live international coverage is incredible, no time to sanitize it.!

They are understandably pissed off.

[BooScout]

20. Thankfully the BBC reports it as it is. n/t

[Ghost Dog]

23. Ransacked offices, burned US & UK flags...

around 500 still-angry people gathered outside now, security people apparently having brought the situation under control...

edit: BBC journalist on the spot now hesitates to confirm the ransacking, burning above (but there was smoke, he says).

Speaker of Lebanese Parliament leading efforts to calm down the crowd; A Hezbullah spokesman tells people they can protest, peacefully, on the streets, but should avoid violence and should refrain from attacking the UN.

[BooScout]

25. They are having a rally now

Speeches against Israel & the US.

[BooScout]

21. Hizbollah spokesman regrets attack on UN.....

...but said it was an expression of anger at the attacks on Lebanon. (Via BBC reporter)

[countryjake]

24. Are they still showing it?

CNN is just talking about what Condi has said...we never get any truth here after 6 am EST.

[BooScout]

26. I'm watching the BBC in the UK

They are showing it continuously. They switched to Condi and came right back.....covering it all. The attacks in Qana, the rioting, etc.

[Dover]

27. Is Israel attempting to provoke Syria to get involved?

Seems to me that Israel would be nothing but pleased by the angry reaction against the UN to their continuing slaughter of innocents in Lebanon, as well.

[formercia]

29. That's the whole point

Fearless Leader and his cronies aren't protecting Israel. He provoked Olmert into this action to precipitate an overwhelming response by Arab and Muslim states. The Xtian Zionist agenda on the march. I call them Xtians because they are not Christians, just crazies under the guise of Christianity.They tried provoking Sharon, but he was getting 'soft' in his old age and now that he's 'out of the way', it's full steam ahead.

[Ian David]

32. America's Roadmap To The Apocalypse: Immanentize the Eschaton

See:
America's Roadmap to The Apocalypse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2747646&mesg_id=2747646

[prole100]

34. The PNAC Memo Laid This All Out Folks - It's a Modern Coliseum

For modern beer-swilling Christian Fundamentalists.

This time the Fundies are the lions.

An eye-for-eye you know - wink, wink

[IndianaGreen]

35. UN stormed amid fury over Qana bombing (Al-Jazeera)

A man screams for help as he
carries a girl's body in Qana

UN stormed amid fury over Qana bombing

Sunday 30 July 2006, 13:35 Makka Time, 10:35 GMT

Lebanese media reported that dozens of people remained trapped inside the three-storey building. Some of them had fled the Israeli bombardment of the Lebanese coastal town of Tyre.

Yasir Abu Hilala, Aljazeera's correspondent in Qana, said aid workers had pulled out only three people alive.

Efforts to get the wounded to hospital have been hampered as all roads around Qana have been destroyed by Israeli air strikes, he said.

The Israeli army has rejected responsibility for the deaths, saying that Hezbollah bore the blame because it used the village as a site for launching rockets.

However Hasan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah MP, told Aljazeera that Israel had committed "a new massacre".

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6334D333-E2A2-4F66-81E6-42FD108FD8BB.htm

[uppityperson]

37. reuters link

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-07-30T150702Z_01_L30807889_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-LEBANON-HEADQUARTERS.xml

[Barrett808]

38. "Our correspondent saw a Red Cross rescue worker... just sobbing"

Our correspondent saw a Red Cross rescue worker sitting in the sunshine just sobbing, overcome with emotion.

[Imajika]

39. These people support Hizbullah...

..Hizbullah started a conflict with Israel. What did these people think would happen when a group they obviously support attacked Israel? What value is smashing up a UN office? Seems kinda pointless to me.

[BooScout]

41. Bullshit

Yes Hizbollah kidnapped two soldiers right smack on the border of Lebanon.......That hardly qualifies for as an attackon Israel. Israel fired the first bombs and they were right at innocent civilians.

[Imajika]

42. Nice try..

"Yes Hizbollah kidnapped two soldiers right smack on the border of Lebanon"

No, Hizbullah launched a sophisticated cross border raid, killed Israeli soldiers and kidnappped two others. None of this "smack on the border of Lebanon" nonsense. Hizbullah launched an offensive operation across the border and thus sparked this conflict.

What Hizbullah did does infact constitute an attack on Israel as it is an act of war.