Did Hezbollah Do The Unthinkable?

I think we generally underestimate the horrible acts of which the most committed Islamo-fascists are capable. I don't know why, given that we know they are capable of mass murder of innocents on airplanes or in buildings, but we do still underestimate them.

I can't say if the troubling coincidences represented in these photos are just that, coincidence, or if it is yet another level of depravity to which a terrorist enemy has sunk. You'll have to be the judge of that for yourself.

There are some things we do know.

Several reports indicated that many of the child victims were handicapped, or disabled. You can see it here on Ynet news, for example. And one of the sources for similar reports is a Lebanese PM, Bahia Hariri. I believe she is the widow of the murdered Rafik Hariri.

'Disabled children placed inside building'

"We have it from a credible source that Hizbullah, alarmed by Siniora's plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations. Knowing full well that Israel will not hesitate to bombard civilian targets, Hizbullah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the negotiation initiative," the site stated.

... "There were 15 physically or mentally handicapped children among the children killed in Qana," said Bahia Hariri, who represents south Lebanon.

A comment on a camera blog post mirrors some of the thoughts I've had when looking at some of the images of dead children from Qana.

In addition to the article you quoted from the Lebanese site, france-echos.com, a French anti-Islamic site, quotes an anonymous nurse who noticed that all of the published photographs of the dead children showed signs of physical handicaps. She commented (my translation):

"The probability that the families in the building had several multiply-handicapped children, that all of these children had been killed, and that all of the publicized photographs would show precisely these children, is the probability of winning the lottery. On the other hand, the probability that members of Hezbollah scored a two-for-one by relieving themselves of their burdens while playing the innocent victims seems much more credible to me."

I can't say I don't see troubling similarities between the first image I posted on the right and some victims from Qana. The children above have Cerebal Palsy but are not reported as being in Qana. They are, or perhaps were hospitalized in a Hezbollah strong hold in Beirut.

A Lebanese child suffering from cerebral palsy lays with other children on a bed at the Dar Al-Ajaza-Islamia Hospital near the Hizbollah stronghold of the south part of Beirut July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (LEBANON)

The similarities in body position between those children and the two children from Qana pictured above Left are obvious. What that means, if it means anything at all, I can't say for sure. They are two children I suggested appeared from around the mysterious corner mentioned in this post. It certainly appears to be a troubling coincidence, at best.

I'm also including a second cropped image from Qana, as the child does appear to have something of an unusual facial or head structure, again similar to one of the children pictured above who, according to the date of the report, were alive and near Beirut on July 26th. I believe that's days before the incident in Qana.

Another item is that many of the children in Qana appear to have their hair cropped very short, even the females. This is often done in third world hospitals to cut down on lice infestations and other hygiene issues.

I cannot say for certain they are the same children. But if they are, then we would know where some of the children in Qana may have come from. A previous post I made gave me a chill when I thought about it later.

In thinking about it, I realized that the Hezbollah operative cited below was interested in finding how how many people had come by to visit the scene of the alleged massacre. Evidently after learning of the prolific coverage the event received, he was happy ... he felt they had won the war. How does one defeat an enemy who thinks they get closer to winning every time more of their own dead children appear in pictures and on our television screens?

As she walked through the ruins of the neighborhood of Hayal Jumma, trying to remember who lived where, a burly man in a brown T-shirt with a handgun in his belt and a two-way radio walked up and identified himself as a Hezbollah man. He wouldn't give his name, but he wanted to know who had come to see the ruins.

His radio cracked and he spoke. Within minutes, three other men arrived.

"I think we won the war. This (debate over a possible) cease-fire is about politics, but I think the war is won by us," the first said, refusing to give his name.

Comments

[old trooper]

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/lessons_so_far_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22071_Photographer_Alleges_Unearthing_of_Bodies&only

Lesson 2: The global media can overturn the verdict of the battlefield.

"Too many politicians and generals still don't get it. This new truth about war slapped us in the face during the First Battle of Fallujah. Now, facing a hostile global media, the Israelis are learning it.

Can we win "Eastern" wars with Western values? I doubt it.

This question is going to eat at our consciences for years to come - even as we learn to do what must be done.

Despite media lies about Israeli "atrocities," the IDF has been doing all it can to spare civilians. For example, the Israelis repeatedly risked commando teams deep in hostile territory to take out Hezbollah command-and-control cells - instead of just leveling the crowded apartment buildings where the terrorists were hiding. But, ultimately, all of the special operations in the world will fall far short of delivering decisive, crushing victories. We are going to have to learn to fight by the enemy's rules. And we aren't going to like it.

The wars of the future will be won by those with the greater strength of will. And boundless determination is one weapon that Islamist extremists unquestionably possess.

Do we?"

Ralph Peters' new book is "Never Quit The Fight." It is a good read.

Lesson Two is the Bottom Line. Hezbollah will do ANYTHING to create a 'victory'. We must question the Media coverage when a clear bias or agenda rears it`s ugly head. Western Societies honor the Gen. Con. rules while the enemy honors none. Terrorists have no Statehood or Nation. They only have an Ideaology. Their war is Global.Terrorists have a goal of subverting Democratically elected Governments, not establishing them or building infrastructure that benefits all of the citizens of any nation. They participate in elections when it serves their cause.

A cease fire that applies to the Governments of Lebanon and Israel suits their purposes. Hezbollah has signed nothing and will respect none of the terms of the agreement.

Until that is realized, your Western Morality will doom Western Civilization. There can be no Sunday School approach to defeating Terrorism.

[oldtimer]

It is pure folly to think you can make nice with islamofacist. They have one goal and that is to destroy Israel and the entire West. Fighting this war with ethics and Geneva Con. will not work, the enemy has no rules. It is time to wake-up.

[brent]

oldtimer is so right on this one. If we think we can win a war against these Muslim nations by playing nice then we are going to lose. These Islamic nations care nothing about their own citizens so why should we shed tears when we are killing them. There is only one way to win this war against the Muslims and that is to KIll them and Kill them all. I am only concerned about the citizens of the US not what some Frech Liberal or even the US Liberals think. Brent

[richard]

"There is only one way to win this war against the Muslims and that is to KIll them and Kill them all. I am only concerned about the citizens of the US not what some Frech Liberal or even the US Liberals think."

I hope you're proud of that being on your blog, Dr. Riehl.

[LEBBE]

Israel does exactly the same thing . They place resrve of weapons and missilles in civilian area of Noth Israël...and of course in village where lived most israelian arab of christians

[jean]

If anyone is interested in finding out where Green Helmet was on the eve of Qana 2, and why he was running late, there it is, in his own (translated) words, in an interview for the AP.

[jean]

sorry, posted too soon.

"Friday night caught him in an abandoned orphanage."

This is what he had to say to Stern Magazine about arriving in Qana in the morning (althoug the Israeli attack occurred between midnight at 1 a.m. and was prompted by rockets launched at Northern Israel from that very house):

"He was informed of the Qana incident one o'clock in the night, but he wasn't able to get there before seven o'clock in the morning, because Israel's warplanes shot at the roads."

And then this, on the very night he was reported injured (AFP):

"Patients in a hospital in Tyre were in danger of suffering smoke inhalation after Israeli warplanes bombed a nearby filling station, sparking a huge fire, hospital director Jawad Najm told AFP.

Two rescue workers, including the chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre, Salam Daher, were wounded by shrapnel during raids near the hospital where they had been rushing to help extinguish the fire, police said."

This "hero" gets a kick out of retrieving bodies (even live ones) from orphanages and hospitals and then planting them in sloppily arranged rescue operations. Please ckeck out Reuters images (about four of them) of a man in dark blue uniform rescuing what appears to be the same decaying body of a little girl with an old right leg gashing wound from two different sites on two different dates (they took care however to change her clothes in order to conceal the wound).

In another image (Pitarakis, if memory serves me right) a "yellow jersey" guy shoves another little body (this one really rotting in his macerated rags)of another apparently handicapped child. During the same operation, another unfortunate child is being carried on a stretcher, his head and neck quite badly deformed, but still looking so suspiciously like one of the handicapped, but very much alive, children photographed lying in their beds in a hospital/orphanage. (The one with a very peculiarly deformed head).

Go check'em out!

[Ryan Heitner]

Bahai Hariri was Refik Hariri's sister not widow.

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