Monday, December 11, 2006
OpinionJournal has a good one on Hizballah's War Crimes, and the fact that what the Western public needs is an education on what it is that we're up against, in the hope that this will at least mitigate the use to which the Western Human Rights Community is put to by those who hide behind women and children: Whose War Crimes? Evidence from Lebanon about how terrorists use civilians
Mohammad Abd al-Hamid Srour moved missiles across southern Lebanon under cover of a white flag. Hussein Ali Mahmoud Suleiman used the porch of a private home to fire rockets. Maher Hassan Mahmoud Kourani dressed in civilian clothes, hid his Kalashnikov in a tote bag and stored anti-aircraft missiles in the back of a green unmarked Volvo. The three men, all members of Hezbollah, were captured by Israel during last summer's war.
Now their videotaped interviews form part of a remarkable report by retired Lieutenant Colonel Reuven Erlich of Israel's Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Relying heavily on captured Hezbollah documents, onsite and aerial photography and other first-hand evidence, the report shows how the Shiite group put innocent civilians at risk by deliberately deploying its forces in cities, towns and often private homes.
Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has accused Israel's military of "indiscriminate warfare" and "a disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians." Mr. Erlich demolishes that claim, and in the process shows the asymmetric strategy of Islamist radicals.
The most persuasive evidence here is photographic, so we urge readers to access the report itself on the Web site of the American Jewish Congress (ajcongress.org). Hezbollah's headquarters in Aita al-Shaab, for instance, sits in the heart of the village. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's office and home are in a densely built neighborhood of Beirut. In the town of Qana--site of an Israeli bombing on July 30 that killed 28 and that Hezbollah's apologists were quick to label a "massacre"--an arms warehouse can be seen adjacent to a mosque. There are photographs of rockets in the back seats of cars, missile launchers adjacent to farm houses, storage bunkers hidden beneath homes. There is also a trove of before-and-after photography demonstrating the precision of most Israeli bombing.
The report also shows how the use of civilian cover was explicitly part of Hezbollah's strategy...
I must say that I agree with this blog; America needs to realize what we are up against before we interfere. We must know what kind of technology and military strategies the other countries are using; that is the way we will get ahead, because we will be one step ahead of them.
Terrorists, despite how much i despise them, are all very intelligent people. Obviously they are ahead of us because if they werent, we would have been able to better prepare for the attempts that the terrorists are making, and some of the hackings on 9-11 wouldnt have happened. However, we tend to be the "soft" country; not wanting to hurt anyones feelings, so we let some guy on a plane who has the materials to make a bomb. No biggie, at least we didnt tell him that he cant get on.
These terrorists put so many innocent peoples lives at risk, and they tend to not care because they are going to end their life anyway.
Luckily, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is over.. for the time being at least.
thank you for posting this blog, it opened my eyes and made me visualize what these terrorists are doing.