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2006-07-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by gorb 2006-07-30 04:49|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This could be another case of Pallywood - Hizbollah style. Its been done before - dropped corpses getting up and climing back on the funeral bier and all.

BTW: So where were the International Journalists when the Israli civilians were deliberately targetted and killed by rockets and homocide bombers?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-30 08:46|| 2006-07-30 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 So where were the International Journalists when the Israli civilians were deliberately targeted

They were busy collecting their checks from news organizations who make a buisness of killing children to shape foreign policy. Do you have a problem with that?

Posted by 2b 2006-07-30 09:01|| 2006-07-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Once again, I make it a point that it is a wise decision on the part of the US military not to permit the gratuitous photography of the dead.

Friendly or enemy dead, it does not matter the circumstances, it always works against the civilized army of the civilized nation. Even those who understand the context of why it happened are repelled--because civilized people are not brutes.

We reject and abhor terrorism, using civilians as human shields, casual murder of women and children to further some fanatical goal. And we make the false assumption that our enemy, being human, hold the same beliefs.

So it is a great paradox that the revulsion we feel when looking at such photographs, is against those who try and prevent such massacre; instead of against those who actually promulgate it.

We damn the police officers who shoot back, not the faceless mass murderers who use hostages as human shields to fire on the innocent crowd.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-30 09:05|| 2006-07-30 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Hezb has had enough. They want a hudna. They orchestrated this killing in order to force the world to make the Israelis stop. I hope the rest of the world is smart enough to see through such a transparent strategy but I strongly doubt it. What matters, though, is whether GWB is. I'm hoping so because I really want to see Hezb smashed beyond any hope of recovery. I'd like to see them exterminated--that's right, exterminated, killed right down to the last murdering Muzzy bastard. That's what they intend for Israel, complete extermination, and they've never made any secret of it. It's come to that point--it's them or Israel, and I pray to God Israel realizes the situation is that serious and acts accordingly.

Posted by mac 2006-07-30 09:56|| 2006-07-30 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) -- Eight days ago, the Lebanese Army buried 87 bodies in a mass grave in the city of Tyre. Today, they are laying another 34 in the ground.

Should look up what Alexander did to the population of Tyre after storming it.

Posted by Flaving Omuger5227 2006-07-30 10:23|| 2006-07-30 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone notice, the numbers for the coffins are always in English? Seems to me, English isn't the first language of any of these people, so why the English numbering system? For the cameras? Just say'n

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-07-30 12:30|| 2006-07-30 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Are you talking about the use of Arabic numerals instead of Roman?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 13:04|| 2006-07-30 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Ouch.

Posted by RJB in JC MO 2006-07-30 13:36|| 2006-07-30 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe CSI says takes 24 hours for maggot eggs to form so this body was laying around awhile, if not exhumed and recycled.

Posted by Danielle 2006-07-30 14:42|| 2006-07-30 14:42|| Front Page Top

#10 minimum 24 hours

Posted by Gil Grissom">Gil Grissom 2006-07-30 15:18|| 2006-07-30 15:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Mmmm... and that can't have been blood leaking from a bag with a very dead body in it, surely? Fluids of a sort, but not blood. I cant't watch CSI these days without tossing my cookies, but I have read enough of dear Dame Agatha, and the erudite Miss Dorothy S to know that dead bodies do not bleed for very long after becoming...er, dead. Damn careless writing, this, or someone has done a little unneccessary set dressing.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-07-30 15:50|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-07-30 15:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Or the body hasn't been dead that long.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 15:58|| 2006-07-30 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 then no maggots

Posted by Gil Grissom">Gil Grissom 2006-07-30 16:15|| 2006-07-30 16:15|| Front Page Top

#14 After one has died, blood coagulation breaks down and fluid (mostly plasma mixed with some red blood cells) leaks out. This can start an hour after death.

Posted by ed 2006-07-30 16:27|| 2006-07-30 16:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Are you talking about the use of Arabic numerals instead of Roman?

AFAIK, arabic numerals are not used in arabic. This is for international teevee, exactly as the english slogans during demonstration, which by the way denote organization and preplanning.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-30 16:33|| 2006-07-30 16:33|| Front Page Top

#16 and "Baby Milk Factory"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-30 16:35|| 2006-07-30 16:35|| Front Page Top

#17 AFAIK, arabic numerals are not used in arabic.

There are Arabic numerals, and then "Arabic" numerals. The numerals we use are "Arabic". See here for a comparison of Arabic numerals with our numerals (top two rows).

I assume that real Arabic numerals are used routinely when writing in Arabic. I see them on coins and paper money from (duh) Arab countries; I suppose it's possible that they're only used in special circumstances like that. (The Arab money very often has "Arabic" numerals on it too.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-07-30 16:50|| 2006-07-30 16:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Remember: If it bleeds, it leads.

Somehow, somewhere Hezbollah really needs to have this carnage laid at their feet. Until that happens, it's all the usual smoke and mirrors. For myself, it is impossible to feel the least sadness about this. The vast majority of these civilians carry forward the endless cycle of hatred and anti-Semitism. Until they can embrace some sense of cooperation and co-existence, they are all SOL. If all of them have to die because of their collective inability to understand this, so be it. I no longer have any patience for such intolerance.

Posted by Zenster 2006-07-30 16:51|| 2006-07-30 16:51|| Front Page Top

#19 Saddam at least used to refrigerate the corpses he used for his propaganda marches.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-07-30 20:19|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-30 20:19|| Front Page Top

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