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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Interview of Canadian General: UN Observer Post Used By Hizballah
2006-07-27
"We received emails from him a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted. Now that's veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. And that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it.

Wonder how Kofi will explain this? cue crickets...

click on the link to hear the interview.
Posted by:Danking70

#6  
BUT I AM RELEVANT.
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
WHY IS EVERYONE LAUGHING AT ME?
Posted by: BigEd   2006-07-27 19:26  

#5  CTV.ca has the complete e-mail on their site:
A Canadian soldier's report from South Lebanon
After the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, and the subsequent bombing campaign began against Lebanon, CTV.ca received an email from Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, a Canadian Forces soldier serving with the UN in South Lebanon. "If you are interested in a Canadian perspective on the events of yesterday and what is happening here in the area I am serving in, I can provide some concise info for you about the current situation," he wrote.

It's a good read on their mission and what was happening on the ground.
Posted by: Steve   2006-07-27 10:50  

#4  Another audio from Canadian Colonel ret.

A direct inference that the deaths of the UN peacekeepers was direct result of UN intransigence, incompetence, and a desire to embarass Israel. The suggestion is that the UN knew in advance that Hezbollah was using the post as a shield and that they were warned by their own people and Irael to get out.

http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/
Colonel_Michel_Drapeau_July26.mp3
Posted by: john   2006-07-27 10:29  

#3  Kofi - good to the last drop. Cup's drained, chuck him out.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-07-27 07:52  

#2  This should be interesting.

Factually speaking, something Annan's unfamiliar with:

1) the UN "peacekeepers" should've been pulled out the minute the hot war began. He and his fucked-up UN are to blame.

2) from that point on there was no peace to keep anyway

3) they were utterly worthless before and after that moment

I want to see this prick humiliated.
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-27 01:40  

#1  H/T: LGF
Posted by: Captain America   2006-07-27 00:42  

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