Until three weeks ago the border between Israel and Lebanon was relatively quiet. There had been no major incidents for the six years since Israel ended its 22 year-occupation (since 1978) in May 2000.Hezbollah patrolled the Lebanese side, and the Israeli army, the Israeli side. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) observed.There were skirmishes, many prompted by Israeli invasion of Lebanese airspace which, according to UNIFIL reports, occurred almost daily.In 2003, three years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, Israeli Brigadier General Meir Caliphi, completed a posting as commander of the Galilee Division saying northern Israel was witnessing one of its more peaceful periods in years. 'When compared to other parts of the country, the north is flourishing,' he said....
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 Israel deliberately targeting civilians, says Human Rights Watch |
Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes, the report says. The 50-page report, "Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," analyzes almost two dozen cases of Israeli air and artillery attacks on civilian homes and vehicles. Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July 12, most of them civilians. ...
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| Judge Delays Jose Padilla Terror Trial Until Early Next Year |
A federal judge reluctantly agreed Wednesday to delay the trial of Al Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla and two alleged confederates on terrorism charges until early next year after defense lawyers insisted they cannot be ready any earlier. Padilla, 35, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, was held without charges for 3 1/2 years by the U.S. military as an enemy combatant. He was arrested in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, purportedly on an Al Qaeda mission to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major U.S. city.Padilla became the subject of a legal battle over President Bush's wartime detention powers, which ended when he was added late last year to an existing terrorism conspiracy and support case. The "dirty bomb" allegations weren't mentioned in that case....
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Editor - 10:29:00 08-03-06
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| Israel’s overkill enabled by immoral U.S. policy |
“Everyone in southern Lebanon is a terrorist & is connected to Hezbollah,” roared Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon on July 27. “Every village from which a Katyusha is fired must be destroyed,” bellowed an Israeli general in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The paper then summarized what the justice minister & general were saying: “In other words a village from which rockets are fired at Israel will simply be destroyed by fire.” That was Thursday. Sun in Qana 57 of Haim Ramon’s “terrorists,” 37 of them children, were massacred with precision-guided bombs. Apparently, Katyushas had been fired from Qana, near the destroyed building. “One who goes to sleep with rockets shouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t wake up in the morning,” said Israel’s ambassador to the U N, Dan Gillerman. Today, we hear unctuous statements about how Israel takes pains to avoid civilian casualties, drops leaflets to warn civilians to flee target areas & conforms to all the rules of civilized warfare. But ...
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Editor - 10:25:00 08-03-06
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| Piracy suspects must face trial |
Ten Somali piracy suspects will be tried in Kenya, a magistrate has ruled. They are accused of holding the 16 crew members of an Indian ship for ransom. They deny the charge. Their defence had questioned Kenya's right to try the men, who were caught by the US Navy in international waters in January. But a magistrate in Mombasa, where the men where flown after their arrest, rejected this argument. Piracy off Somalia has diminished after a record number of attacks last year. "You have a case to answer," magistrate Beatrice Jaden told the accused in court on Thursday. Defence lawyers said they would appeal against the ruling. ...
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Editor - 10:14:00 08-03-06
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| Manhunt on for Minnesota Man Who Killed 10 Puppies in Spat With Girlfriend |
Police said a St. Paul man who killed 10 pit bull puppies during an argument with his girlfriend as several people watched, then threw the bodies in a trash bin, could be charged with cruelty to animals. Officers found the dead puppies, with broken necks, in a commercial trash bin. The remains were removed by the city's animal control officers.Authorities were looking for the suspect, who owned the dogs.Witnesses saw the man kill the puppies at around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of his girlfriend, then threatened to do the same to her. Police were also investigating the alleged threats.Witnesses said the argument started inside the apartment building when the girlfriend refused to give the man and his dogs a ride home....
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