--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "larry.potter" > <larry.potter@> wrote: > > > > UN observer: Hizbullah using us as shields > > > > Six days before his death in IAF bombing, Canadian observer Major > > Paeta Hess-von Kruedener sends email to his former commander, says > > Hizbullah operating near UN post in southern Lebanon. His > commander > > reveals he said IDF strike aimed at hitting terrorists, not > foreign > > observers. His wife Cynthia, however, accuses Israel of > > intentionally bombing post > > > > Six days before he was killed in an Israel Air Force bombing of a > > United Nations post in southern Lebanon, Canadian observer Major > > Paeta Hess-von Kruendener sent an email to his former commander in > > the Canadian army, in which he said that Hizbullah fighters > > were "running around" near the UN post struck by the Israel > Defense > > Forces and that they were using the post as a sort of "shield" > > against Israel's strikes. > > > > The former commander, Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, who served as > a > > UN commander in Bosnia, spoke about the email in a Canadian radio > > show. He said that Hess-von Kruendener wrote that the IDF strikes > > near the post had "not been deliberate targeting, but rather due > to > > tactical necessity." > > > > "That would mean Hizbullah was purposely setting up near the UN > > post," he added. "It's a tactic." > > > > Hess-von Kruendener even sent an email to the Canadian television > > network CTV a few days before his death, in which he spoke about > the > > IDF's bombardments near his UN post and said that he feared for > his > > life. > > > > ********************** > > on so-called "hiding among civilians," generally: > http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/28/hezbollah/index_np.html > > on the lie that Israel did not deliberately target the UN: > > http://tinyurl.com/qf9ap > > BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- The U.N. observers killed when an Israeli > bomb hit their bunker in Lebanon Tuesday called an Israeli military > liaison about 10 times in the six hours before they died to warn > that aerial attacks were getting close to their position, a U.N. > officer said. > > After each call, the Israeli officer promised to have the bombing > stopped, an officer at the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) > base in Noqoura said. > > Finally, an Israeli bomb exploded directly on the U.N. post near > Khiyam, killing four U.N. observers from Austria, Finland, Canada > and China, the U.N. officer said. > Deja Vu: USS Liberty, June 8, 1967
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