CNN/Reuters: Israeli airstrike kills four UN observers

[Karmadillo]

Will update as more information becomes available. The reporter for CNN made sure to say this is merely a claim. The UN is trying to recover the casualties. Given the makeup of the observer force, it's likely, per the reporter, the casualties were Europeans.

Reuters (per CNN): Four observers killed.

[gatorboy]

1. It's the U.S.S. Liberty all over again.

"Hi, were Israel and we could give a shit who we bomb..."

[malaise]

2. WTF

Well this will force the ceasefire. Israel has gone mad.

[partylessinOhio]

5. They have been mad all along. Seems nothing will bring a ceasefire

unless asshole and assshoe call for it.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

9. No, it will just cause the UN to pull out

so there will be fewer witnesses to the atrocities.

[Zynx]

13. Do you believe for one moment that Israel is going to commit genocide?

If you do, re-examine which group is advocating genocide.

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[Zynx]

16. Israel could kill tens of thousands a day if it wanted to.

Genocide is the targeted killing of a specific group because of their race, religion, ethnicity, etc with the intent to destroy it. Israel simply uses a lot of firepower and innocents do happen to die in these wars.

Hezbollah on the other hand is targeting civilian areas for the expressed purpose of maximum casualties with a goal of destroy the Israeli nation and people. Who is actually the genocidal group here?

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[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. How long has the outpost been there?

If it was a make-shift observer post recently set up, it would be one thing. But if its presence had been there for years, that would be another.

[malaise]

7. Six years

Thank Bolton and Bush.

[Scurrilous]

4. Israeli shell hits UN base in S. Lebanon

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"An Israeli aerial bomb destroyed a base run by a U.N. observer force in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, causing casualties, a U.N. spokesman said.

"One aerial bomb directly impacted the building and shelter in the base of the United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon in the area of Khiam," said Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in the area.

"There are casualties among the observers. A UNIFIL dispatched rescue team which is on the spot is still unable to clear the rubble."

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-07-25T204645Z_01_L25314960_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-LEBANON-UN-COL.XML

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Gotta love that precision targeting. n/t

[Solly Mack]

8. Did anyone else just stifle a scream?

...huge lump of despair unable to break free because of the crushing sorrow that greeted it.

[countingbluecars]

10. So is there no plan,

strategy, or communication involved here? Do they just bomb whatever they feel like bombing-ambulances, UN posts, civilians?

[Igel]

12. I'm going to guess otherwise.

Ghanaian.

Stay tuned.

[Karmadillo]

15. CNN UPDATE: UN stating casualties in attack. Fourteen incidents of

firing close to their position this afternoon. Rescue team clearing away rubble to try to reach.

[Karmadillo]

17. Reuters update: Firing continued during the rescue efforts.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-25T213026Z_01_L25314960_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-LEBANON-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-worldNews-2

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"There were 14 other incidents of firing close to this position in the afternoon from the Israeli side and the firing continued during the rescue operation," he said.

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[Igel]

19. Indians, it seems.

I guessed wrong.

Hezbollah was drawing fire before to Ghanaian positions. Kofi Annan's Ghanaian.