Hezbollah fighters seized

[Little Star]

Hezbollah fighters seized
Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem
July 24, 2006

ISRAELI troops captured a number of Hezbollah fighters at the weekend and completed the takeover of a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon on which seven Israeli commandos died in bitter fighting last week.
The capture of Hezbollah prisoners, the first since the current operation began, will enable Israeli intelligence to update its information on Hezbollah's deployment and intentions. The army also detained a number of Lebanese civilians in the area for questioning.

The bodies of 13 Hezbollah fighters were retrieved from the battlefield and brought into Israel, where they would be buried until negotiations were held for an exchange of prisoners, officials said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19887897-31477,00.html

[Missy M]

1. They even hold dead bodies hostage. How bizarre.

[adriennui]

12. they don't hang the corpses from windows

or drag them through the streets. remember? or is your recall very selective.

[cracksquirrel]

14. If that's how you want to see it

Both Jewish and Muslim customs call for burial of the dead shortly after death. Sticking the corpses in a meat freezer for a few months would be considered highly disrespectful. This is just a matter of Israel treating the dead of its enemy with the respect that it would hope that their dead would be treated.

[liberalhistorian]

2. Notice how the word "captured" is used

in regard to the taking of Hezbollah fighters, and that they're prisoners of war, and yet the word "kidnapped" is routinely used when Israeli soldiers are taken, and they're held "hostage" and not prisoners of war, as they should be known.

And exactly what in the hell do Lebanese civilians have to do with anything in regards to "questioning?" Oh, yeah, that's right; they all have control over Hezbollah and Hamas. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

3. OMG.. more kidnapping?

:evilgrin: were they 19 yr old BOYS..?

[Kagemusha]

4. I thought Israel made clear there would be no such negotiations.

So why bring the bodies back?

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[Kagemusha]

8. I suggest you revise your comment.

I do not want it associated with me whatsoever. If you're accusing me of suggesting what you said, that's absolutely unwarranted and deeply insulting. And it's not appropriate in any fashion.

[saigon68]

10. Whatever

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2408079&mesg_id=2408827

[liberalhistorian]

11. And I suggest that you lighten

up!

[Little Star]

7. My thought was...

that the no negotiations thing was empty bravado.

[Kagemusha]

9. Yeah, this action by the IDF would suggest as much...

Guess we'll see...

[partylessinOhio]

6. Ghouls! Body snatchers!

[cracksquirrel]

15. Fiends!

You forgot baby-eaters and well-poisoners. n/t
:sarcasm:

[Igel]

13. So how much do they think the bodies will bring?

Clearly Hezbollah regards bodies, dead and alive, as a form of human currency. They have in the past, and that's the reason for abducting the Israeli soldiers.