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Heavy Equipment Used to Bury the Dead
AP ^ | 8/2/6 | NASSER NASSER

Posted on 08/02/2006 10:40:40 AM PDT by SmithL

BAALBEK, Lebanon -- People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader's scoop to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians.

It was the deepest thrust into Lebanon by Israeli troops since fighting broke out between Israel and Hezbollah on July 12. Israel said its soldiers killed at least 10 Hezbollah guerrillas and captured five.

A crowd of about 50 people from the village of Al Jamaliyeh carried pictures of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a funeral procession through the hamlet, which was hit by bombs overnight as Israeli commandos stormed a Hezbollah hospital in Baalbek a half-mile away.

The village's dead were shrouded in white cloth and carried to the cemetery in the bucket of a yellow front-end loader. The mayor, Hussein Jamaleddin, lost his son, brother and five other relatives. He broke down crying and pulled at the limbs of the dead hanging out of the scoop.

"This is the leg of my son. He was a sportsman, he did tae kwan do," Jamaleddin wailed.

People around Baalbek said the Dar Al-Hikma hospital was partially destroyed in overnight fighting, but an Associated Press photographer said the building appeared intact. Guards prevented journalists from entering.

The building's entrance was riddled with bullet holes and the door appeared to have been broken down. Two burned cars sat outside the three-story building and a minivan with shattered windows stood nearby, riddled with shrapnel and bullet holes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; backhoe; bulldozer; cat; caterpillar; corrie; earthmover; frontendloader; heavyequipment; hezbollah; islam; muhammadsminions; muslim; pancake; payloader; rachel; rachelcorrie; terrorism; wot
Did they get to use the Rachel Corrie Memorial Bulldozer?
1 posted on 08/02/2006 10:40:41 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

How many times do you think they buried these people for their propagand films?


2 posted on 08/02/2006 10:42:13 AM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: SmithL

If anyone has yet to see Obsession please know you can view it here

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6162397493278181614&q=obsession


3 posted on 08/02/2006 10:42:23 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (OBSESSION. A must see. ->http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6162397493278181614&q=obsession)
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To: SmithL

I hope the heavy equipment helps them pack the bodies down tight.

Otherwise, these "victims" might be appearing at another "atrocity" in the future.


4 posted on 08/02/2006 10:43:29 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SmithL
The mayor, Hussein Jamaleddin

The mayor of Hezbollah's stronghold. Ownership has it's privledges.

5 posted on 08/02/2006 10:44:04 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: SmithL

Are these dead people the ones who were victims of Hezbollah rocket launcher placement?


6 posted on 08/02/2006 10:47:54 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: Sax
limbs of the dead hanging out of the scoop.

..and, what the hell are they doing using a front end loader with limbs hanging out like a softshell crab sandwich? There were only 15 dead, it's not like half the city. This also smacks of playing it up to the press - the aggressor playing the victim again. The folks that matter aren't having any of that.

7 posted on 08/02/2006 10:47:57 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: SmithL
lgf's take on this story: MSM's Hizballah Sources
8 posted on 08/02/2006 10:48:22 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: SmithL

Remember all of the objections that were raised against performing autopsies on the bodies of Iraqi women and children allegedly murdered by US servicemen in Haditha? Supposedly it was not permitted because of the special care given to the dead under Islamic law and tradition. I guess that front-end payloaders must qualify under the traditional Islamic customs for treating the dead with respect, huh...


9 posted on 08/02/2006 10:49:45 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: backhoe

If there's heavy equipment involved, The Heavy Equipment Guy must be pinged!

}:-)4


10 posted on 08/02/2006 10:50:25 AM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: SmithL
...and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians.

I don't know whom the Israelis are fighting in Lebanon: seems to be no one there but civilians, women, and children!

11 posted on 08/02/2006 10:51:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Sax

Nailed it! I don't know how a Leftist could even write this with a straight face. A frontloader??? For 15 people, with a crowd of 50?? They could bury people with more dignity than that and they know it! This is propaganda for the Western Idiots!


12 posted on 08/02/2006 10:52:06 AM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: SmithL

I am concerned about to the loss of innocent life, and I know who bears the responsibility. Hizbollah brought this war on; it attacked Israel. It failed to disarm under the UN Resolution 1559. The IDF does its best, like our own forces, to prevent unnecessary deaths and injuries. When an enemy uses civilians for tactical advantage, it gives up the moral high ground and is the cause of the deaths of the civilians they hide behind. This is yet another shame they bring on themselves with their barbaric ways of war, like the invention of suicide bombing and all its horrors, these terrorists are reaping what they've sown.


13 posted on 08/02/2006 10:52:27 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Knowledge is power, so the MSM makes sure the terrorists have our classified info.)
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14 posted on 08/02/2006 10:55:38 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: SmithL
Heavy Equipment Used to Bury the Dead

I am tearing up already....
15 posted on 08/02/2006 10:58:24 AM PDT by dmartin (Who Dares Wins)
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To: SmithL
People around Baalbek said the Dar Al-Hikma hospital was partially destroyed in overnight fighting, but an Associated Press photographer said the building appeared intact. Guards prevented journalists from entering.

And yet, the journalists are more than happy to just take their word for it. Scumbags!

Did they get to use the Rachel Corrie Memorial Bulldozer?


16 posted on 08/02/2006 11:04:49 AM PDT by detsaoT (Proudly not "dumb as a journalist.")
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To: SmithL; backhoe

Yes, but it takes a backhoe to uncover the truth, sometimes!! ;-P


17 posted on 08/02/2006 11:05:43 AM PDT by MortMan (There are 10 kinds of people in the world... Those that understand binary and those that don't!)
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To: SmithL
Here it is, photographic evidence of the Isreali massacre so large that conventional funeral techniques are impossible:

Photo by Nasser Nasser, the same AP photographer from Qana

Thanks to caveat emptor (#8) and:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/game-set-and-match.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21885_AP_Rewards_Qana_Photographers&only

18 posted on 08/02/2006 11:13:00 AM PDT by sanchmo
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To: Sax

The mayor of Hezbollah's stronghold. Ownership has it's privledges.

OUTSTANDING!!! LOL, LOL


19 posted on 08/02/2006 11:13:34 AM PDT by Lowell (The voice from beyond the far right edge!)
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To: SmithL
More innocent civilians arrive at Beirut Airport.


20 posted on 08/02/2006 11:17:57 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: SmithL
he did tae kwan do

Don't bring martial arts to a gunfight.

21 posted on 08/02/2006 11:20:23 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: sanchmo
Is that an OD green field jacket under that nappy shroud?
22 posted on 08/02/2006 11:23:29 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: sanchmo

Nasser Nasser. Obviously a Catholic seminarian.


23 posted on 08/02/2006 11:23:32 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: expatpat

Nasser Nasser.

What did his mom have a nervous tick as she named him?


24 posted on 08/02/2006 11:25:17 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: Sax

Schizophrenic whose both personalities were in love with the Egyptian dictator.


25 posted on 08/02/2006 11:35:45 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: SmithL
Israel could solve this problem for them by using nukes, then the "civilians" would be vaporized and we wouldn't have to see the pitiful sight of them being hauled off by a loader!

Just kidding, but don't you get tired of this sh**? Doesn't the MSM know that the majority of people aren't taken in by it anymore?

26 posted on 08/02/2006 11:42:19 AM PDT by calex59 (The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
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To: Sax; All

With all the flowery praise the Lebanese seem to be showering on Hezbollah since the IDF's campaign began, should we not wonder if the dead were not Hezzy supporters, perhaps even fighters, themselves? I'm rapidly forming the opinion that there are no true Lebanese anymore, only Hezbollese. If Hezbillah is really as entrenched in Lebanese society as many suggest, then they'd better get ready to bury a lot more.
I hope I'm wrong, but only time will tell.


27 posted on 08/02/2006 11:51:38 AM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: 95 Bravo

IDF says 10+ enemy combatants killed.

Hez says 15 civilians.

You decide.


28 posted on 08/02/2006 11:55:27 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: Sax

Hiccups.


29 posted on 08/02/2006 12:00:50 PM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: Sax

And the caption to the pic says 7 killed. The same pic used in the AP article that says 15 were killed...


30 posted on 08/02/2006 12:28:33 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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To: SmithL

"Did they get to use the Rachel Corrie Memorial Bulldozer?"

No, but they did eat at IHOP.


31 posted on 08/02/2006 2:01:32 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (God Protect Israel.)
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To: SmithL

Well that a good start Israel. Hit them again.


32 posted on 08/02/2006 2:22:11 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
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To: SmithL
Did they get to use the Rachel Corrie Memorial Bulldozer?

LOL

33 posted on 08/02/2006 2:42:04 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions.)
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34 posted on 08/02/2006 3:03:02 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 44-48)
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To: SmithL

Jeez, don't these retards even realize how freaking lame their fake photos are?

35 posted on 08/02/2006 3:06:54 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 44-48)
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To: The Electrician

Very good point


36 posted on 08/02/2006 3:07:41 PM PDT by listenhillary (Only the stupidest of animals fouls it's own nest - Democrats provide a fine example of this)
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To: Rummyfan
I don't know whom the Israelis are fighting in Lebanon: seems to be no one there but civilians, women, and children!

They are all civilians. With rocket launchers.

37 posted on 08/02/2006 3:09:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Sax
what the hell are they doing using a front end loader with limbs hanging out like a softshell crab sandwich? There were only 15 dead

All the photo ops are of the one same guy.

38 posted on 08/02/2006 3:09:44 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 44-48)
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To: SmithL

How do the limbs fall out when they are wrapped in a shroud? I thought that meant they were wrapped like a mummy when wrapped in a shroud. Am I missing something?


39 posted on 08/02/2006 3:31:06 PM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (God bless Israel and their men and women fighting against an evil, cowardly enemy.)
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To: SmithL

Israel has been extremely lenient in dropping leaflets and announcing where they are going to attack. Civilians could evacuate. What would be more dangerous: traveling on roads which could be attacked, or staying in a settlement (city, village, town, etc.) that has been slated for attack?


40 posted on 08/02/2006 3:34:18 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
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To: SmithL; AliVeritas
A Lebanese boy stands next to coffins of Qana's victims who were killed during an Israeli air raid on Sunday, at the Government Hospital in the port city of Tyre (Soure) August 2, 2006. The burial of Qana's victims was postponed due to security reasons. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LEBANON) Reuters - Aug 02 5:51 AM

What am I going to believe? To be buried or not to be buried, that is the question...

41 posted on 08/02/2006 8:38:16 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Sax

No contest. I'll go with the IDF.


42 posted on 08/03/2006 6:39:01 AM PDT by 95 Bravo ("Freedom is not free.")
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To: SJSAMPLE

At least they can still vote.


43 posted on 08/03/2006 6:40:17 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: 95 Bravo

You're damned skippy!

Cheers


44 posted on 08/03/2006 7:18:33 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: Alouette

He's wearing fatigues - enemy combatant - case closed.


45 posted on 08/03/2006 7:19:12 AM PDT by Sax (You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
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To: DungeonMaster

LOL.

I was going to make a Chicago reference, but I thought it would be too obscure.


46 posted on 08/03/2006 8:19:50 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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