Posted on 07/30/2006 6:51:22 AM PDT by bobsunshine
THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.
The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
They emerged as:
US President George Bush called for an international force to be sent to Lebanon.
ISRAEL called up another 30,000 reserve troops.
THE UN's humanitarian chief Jan Egeland called for a three-day truce to evacuate civilians and transport food and water into cut-off areas.
US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a UN resolution aimed at ending the 18-day war, and:
A PALESTINIAN militant group said it had kidnapped, killed and burned an Israeli settler in the West Bank.
The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun metres from an apartment block with sheets hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47 rifle guarding no-go zones after Israeli blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in the middle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack.
The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut and did not wish to be named said he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.
"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so lucky it was not more."
The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as "human shields".
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as "cowards" for operating among civilians.
"When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children," he said.
And if they do get killed, the willing media covering the conflict will count them as civilian dead.
Despicable. And yet Fox's Greg Palcot was on this morning, and spoke of the Hezbollah "fighting the good fight." We backed up the dvr to make sure we heard it right--alas, we did.
Sure you can...
It appears that the ruthless bloodthirsty hezzebolas are using their own people as human shields, and then parading the resulting carnage of lost innocent lives, as the result of the "barbaric" Israelis, before the international leftist media. This is all designed to turn world public opinion against the Israelis and further hamstring Israeli military efforts to throttle this Lebanese Shia virus.
If Israel cannot stomach the crushing of these shia nazis, it will be setting the preconditions for the next conflict. A conflict that could allow the hezebola to shot long range missles with WMD in the nose cones at defenseless, innocent people.
There was a time when soldiers who hid among civilians were universally reviled as cowards and lowlife.
I heard similar pro-hezzie propaganda from the mouth of one Christopher Dickie, a Newsweek journalist in Paris speaking with an MSNBC anchor over the phone.
What a pathetic motley crew.
Yes, they are despicable; but they are winning. They are winning because Americans are going to start to giving up on Israel if things don't calm down for good. Sad but true.
Nevertheless, there has has to be concern among Israel's supporters that the negative images inevitably created by the media regarding this incident may influence the ultimate outcome of the current conflict in an unfavorable direction.
It's obvious that Israel will be taking a bum rap for this, but please continue posting photos of Hezzies in civilian clothing to help offset the MSM and pro-terrorist propaganda.
Now..., now..., Muslims are just following their age-old tradition of having countless "Bring Your Family to War Days"!
Some "Army of God." Hezballah . . . Hah!
If I had the balls to call myself "The Army of God", I sure as hell wouldn't go hiding behind a burqa!
More like The Army of Pig Butts.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
bttt
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