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2004-09-08 Terror Networks

Breslan school massacre wasn't the first (Arafat did it first)

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Posted by mhw 2004-09-08 10:08:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a quick search returned this:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Maalot%20High%20School%20Massacre

The Maalot (High School) massacre was a terrorist attack in Maalot, Israel that occurred on May 15th 1974.

On this date, which corresponds with the 26th anniversary of Israeli independence, Palestinian terrorists broke into the high school in Maalot, a community in northern Israel.

The terrorists immediately killed a security guard and some of the children, the remaining children and teachers were held as hostages.

In the morning, the terrorists were identified as members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) who had infiltrated into Israel from Lebanon. They presented their demands: release Arab terrorists from Israeli prisons, or they would kill the children. The deadline was set at 6:00 p.m. the same day.

The Knesset, the Israeli parliment, met in an emergency session, and by 3:00PM a decision was reached to negotiate, but the terrorists refused a request for more time.

At 5:45 p.m., a unit of the elite Golani Brigade stormed the building. All of the terrorists were killed in the assault, but not before they used firearms and explosives to kill 21 children that afternoon. All told, 26 people were killed and 66 wounded (not including the terrorists), including several people murdered by the terrorists on their way to the school the night before.

Beslan was just another turn of the crank in the parade of disgusting atrocities performed by members of, and in the name of, the ROP.

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-09-08 2:40:40 PM|| 2004-09-08 2:40:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't mean to piss on anyone's chips but didn't the Christian Phalangists do likewise in Beirut? Actually, this may help frame the Phalangists' actions as revenge. Still unfettered evil tho'.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-08 3:40:44 PM|| 2004-09-08 3:40:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Howard - you mean sabra and Shatila - you may have a point, but IIRC that was a massacre in hot blood after the assasination of Bashir Gemayel, more than a preplanned act. Still evil though.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-09-08 4:22:45 PM|| 2004-09-08 4:22:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Aye, I think you're dead right - they blew up his headquarters/apartment - Druze was he?

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-08 4:25:32 PM|| 2004-09-08 4:25:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Gemayal was Lebanese Christian, and head of the Phalangists. Israel installed him as Pres of Lebanon, with Israeli troops in Beirut (in 1982). He signed a peace deal with Israel (egypt was the only other arab state to do so, and that was still recent, and Sadat was dead). The Pals killed him, Im not sure how. The Phalangists then went on a rampage, killing Pals. Sharon was blamed for not acting quickly enough to stop them. Israel was forced to withdraw from Beirut. US, UK and French forces went in to fill the vacuum. Shiite and Druze militias, with Syrian backing, fought US forces. Hezbollah bombed a USMC barracks, killing over 200 and Reagan pulled US troops out (i presume uk and France withdrew around the same time) Syria filled the vacuum. Israel retreated to a security zone in the south.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-09-08 4:31:10 PM|| 2004-09-08 4:31:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm 32 years old and clearly remember the barracks bombing - the same kind of numbed silence with which I watched the Beslan atrocity.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-08 4:40:52 PM|| 2004-09-08 4:40:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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