News for 08-06-06
08-06-06 - Israel moves to isolate Lebanese region Six civilians were killed and five wounded in an Israeli air raid in south Lebanon as Israel turned its attention to the area surrounding Lebanon's third largest city, Sidon.
An air-to-ground missile destroyed a house in Ansar, to the east of Sidon, killing six people. Half-an-hour later, as rescue teams searched through the rubble, the warplanes returned to attack the town again.
08-06-06 - Deaths mount in Israel and Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel on Sunday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage that battered Haifa.....Israeli airstrikes killed a Lebanese army intelligence officer and wounded seven soldiers at Mansouri and wounded five other soldiers in Debbin. Israeli missiles also flattened a house in Ansar village, killing a man and four of his relatives....Other attacks killed three people in the frontier village of al-Jibbain, the driver of a bread van near Tyre and a third person in Naqoura, near the border on the Mediterranean coast
08-06-06 - Lebanon Demands Resolution Changes The Lebanese government is calling for Israeli forces to immediately withdraw from Lebanon after any halt to fighting, its UN representative said. The UN Security Council is considering the draft resolution, hammered out on Saturday.
08-06-06 - 800 British troops treated at the Priory As British soldiers come under intense pressure from serving in an increasingly hostile environment, families of those personnel returning from Iraq have also been advised to look for "possible after effects".
08-06-06 - Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
Now who would want Americans to still believe that Iraq had WMDs, mewonders?
08-06-06 - An Israeli Arab man is rescued from the rubble at the site of a Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern Israel coastal town of Haifa
08-06-06 - Israel's mighty army powerless against Hezbollah rockets: military
08-06-06 - China demands better security for peacekeepers after 3 wounded in attack
08-06-06 - Syria ready for regional war, blasts UN resolution "If Israel attacked Syria by any means from the ground or the air, our leadership has ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," he said Sunday, after meeting with pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...."The American-French draft totally favors Israel."
08-06-06 - Israel and Hezbollah faces UN spotlight over child deaths She said the number of deaths of women and children in Lebanon was "very high because civilian institutions and infrastructure have borne the brunt of some of those attacks both by Hezbollah rockets as well as Israeli bombardments." One side is no better than the other. The US should support neither.
08-06-06 - Iran denies reported bid to import uranium from DR Congo
08-06-06 - Iran to ignore nuclear resolution
08-06-06 - Soldiers had early warning of rockets, but 'didn't seek shelter' "This shouldn't have happened," said Giladi, who arrived at the scene with firefighters from the kibbutz. "We sounded the alert several minutes before the rocket hits, but they stayed in the area and didn't seek shelter."
08-06-06 - Crude oil covers the historic port of Byblos in Jbeil, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Much of Lebanon's coastline is now awash with crude oil
08-06-06 - 9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving
08-06-06 - CNN RELIABLE SOURCES I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon. KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here?
RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me. Maybe that's why the Israeli Arabs, who have been taking the brunt of the Hezbollah rockets of late, have been left to fend for themselves in Israel, while other Israelis go to the West Bank settlements. I wonder if any West Bank settlements, all of which are Jewish, have taken in any Israeli Arabs.
08-06-06 - Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.
08-06-06 - Animals also suffering in Lebanon conflict: rights group "There are places we couldn't reach but Lebanese soldiers would take dog food from us and go feed the dogs themselves," said Rokke who plans to take cats and dogs out of the country and re-house them with new owners abroad.
08-06-06 - Beirut fishermen devastated by Israeli port attack The pair are originally Palestinian. The father fled Gaza in 1948 to find refuge in Lebanon. But now everything they owned in Lebanon, a home overlooking the port and two fishing boats, has been destroyed by the Israeli raids.
08-06-06 - Rice: Iraq isn't becoming another Iran Hagel said this country cannot "ask them to do the things that we're asking them to do in the middle of a civil war, and that's where it's headed." "We're ruining our United States Army. We are decimating our army. We can't continue with the tempo and the commitment that we are on right now," Hagel said on CBS "Face the Nation."
I would imagine that Hagel's realism and candor will earn him the animosity of Cheney and the neocons.
08-06-06 - Robert Fisk: This draft shows who is running America's policy... Israel A close analysis of the American-French draft - the fingerprints of John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, were almost smudging the paragraphs - showed just who is running Washington's Middle East policy: Israel.
08-06-06 - Israeli Arabs get cold greeting from Palestinians The rockets have killed 48 people inside Israel in less than four weeks of fighting, many of them residents of Arab villages.
08-06-06 - The Reuters photo scandal, a photo comparison Photo comparison: One by now infamous photo doctorer, Adnan Hajj and another of same scene by an AP photog
08-06-06 - Lebanon seeks Pakistani troops: report
08-06-06 - Olmert tells Europe to stop preaching to Israel "Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?" Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll.
08-06-06 - Besieged Lebanese turn to Internet Hanady Salman, managing editor of the As-Safir newspaper, said she never had the time or interest to keep a diary. But when Israeli missiles struck a convoy of Lebanese villagers fleeing the southern village of Merwaheen on the third day of the war, killing at least 15 people and blowing children into nearby ravines, the 38-year-old mother was galvanized.
08-06-06 - 'Moment of opportunity': yes, but only if the US asks Israel the hard questions Who knows what new Hizbullah is rising from the dust, amid the survivors at Qana? ...All Israel and the US have gained from this brutal pounding, and the deaths of hundreds of innocents, is increasing enmity and further isolation from the Arab world. Indeed, in their tacit and lonely support for Israel's bombing of Lebanese ambulances, homes, roads, airports, and state infrastructure, US officials have done the Jewish state no favors.
08-06-06 - Israelis differ on missile defense a military analyst said the system only would have offered a very limited shield against the more than 3,000 rockets fired on northern Israel in nearly four weeks of fighting that so far have killed 33 Israelis.
08-06-06 - Bush Backing Israel Despite Divisions "The crisis in the Middle East today has brought us to one of those rare moments that transcend party and ideological lines. There is no daylight at all between the government of Israel, the Bush administration, Congress and the American Jewish community," said William Daroff, director of the Washington office of United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations. That's a "rare moment"? Hardly. It is official Congressional and White House policy to pander to Israel.
08-06-06 - A tale of two failed Mideast states Failed states in general, and particularly those in the Middle East, represent potential threats to the US because they could be transformed into terrorist bases. The United States, through its unconditional support of Israel and its policy of collective punishment, has helped further the rapid deterioration of two states - Lebanon and Palestine (not really a state, yet).
08-06-06 - Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image "The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," The Israel-supporters are all up in arms over this photo. First of all, the photo, even doctored, doesn't really add anything to the scene or make it appear any worse. So, it is unclear how this is some kind of conspiracy. Secondly, this will now be wielded as 'evidence' that all photos of Lebanon's devastation are doctored, no doubt. Since one photo was doctored, then all photos that damage Israel must be doctored too; the 'logic' of the Israel-defender. One remedy: look for similar photos of the same scene that were taken by different press agencies.
08-06-06 - DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman A Christian Zionist, a panderer to the extreme right, and a neocon all endorse Lieberman. Say, I wonder why?
08-06-06 - Saudis to sue Israel over $14 billion Lebanon invesments Saudi businessmen are contemplating a lawsuit against Israel for damages over their $14 billion of investments in Lebanon. If they do and they win, it will be the American taxpayers that get to pick up the tab, no doubt.
08-06-06 - Thousands of Montrealers demonstrate against ongoing war in Lebanon Police said more than 15,000 people participated in the rally, making it one of the largest that took place around the world over the weekend
08-06-06 - Indonesia anti-Israel rallies draw wide spectrum
08-06-06 - Protesters invade runway used by US arms flights to Israel
08-06-06 - Moroccans, Indonesians, Belgians march for Lebanon Security sources put the number at the march at about 70,000. Organizers said up to one million people attended
An air-to-ground missile destroyed a house in Ansar, to the east of Sidon, killing six people. Half-an-hour later, as rescue teams searched through the rubble, the warplanes returned to attack the town again.
08-06-06 - Deaths mount in Israel and Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel on Sunday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage that battered Haifa.....Israeli airstrikes killed a Lebanese army intelligence officer and wounded seven soldiers at Mansouri and wounded five other soldiers in Debbin. Israeli missiles also flattened a house in Ansar village, killing a man and four of his relatives....Other attacks killed three people in the frontier village of al-Jibbain, the driver of a bread van near Tyre and a third person in Naqoura, near the border on the Mediterranean coast
08-06-06 - Lebanon Demands Resolution Changes The Lebanese government is calling for Israeli forces to immediately withdraw from Lebanon after any halt to fighting, its UN representative said. The UN Security Council is considering the draft resolution, hammered out on Saturday.
08-06-06 - 800 British troops treated at the Priory As British soldiers come under intense pressure from serving in an increasingly hostile environment, families of those personnel returning from Iraq have also been advised to look for "possible after effects".
08-06-06 - Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
Now who would want Americans to still believe that Iraq had WMDs, mewonders?
08-06-06 - An Israeli Arab man is rescued from the rubble at the site of a Hezbollah rocket attack in the northern Israel coastal town of Haifa
08-06-06 - Israel's mighty army powerless against Hezbollah rockets: military
08-06-06 - China demands better security for peacekeepers after 3 wounded in attack
08-06-06 - Syria ready for regional war, blasts UN resolution "If Israel attacked Syria by any means from the ground or the air, our leadership has ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," he said Sunday, after meeting with pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...."The American-French draft totally favors Israel."
08-06-06 - Israel and Hezbollah faces UN spotlight over child deaths She said the number of deaths of women and children in Lebanon was "very high because civilian institutions and infrastructure have borne the brunt of some of those attacks both by Hezbollah rockets as well as Israeli bombardments." One side is no better than the other. The US should support neither.
08-06-06 - Iran denies reported bid to import uranium from DR Congo
08-06-06 - Iran to ignore nuclear resolution
08-06-06 - Soldiers had early warning of rockets, but 'didn't seek shelter' "This shouldn't have happened," said Giladi, who arrived at the scene with firefighters from the kibbutz. "We sounded the alert several minutes before the rocket hits, but they stayed in the area and didn't seek shelter."
08-06-06 - Crude oil covers the historic port of Byblos in Jbeil, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Much of Lebanon's coastline is now awash with crude oil
08-06-06 - 9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving
08-06-06 - CNN RELIABLE SOURCES I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon. KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here?
RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me. Maybe that's why the Israeli Arabs, who have been taking the brunt of the Hezbollah rockets of late, have been left to fend for themselves in Israel, while other Israelis go to the West Bank settlements. I wonder if any West Bank settlements, all of which are Jewish, have taken in any Israeli Arabs.
08-06-06 - Syria rejects Mideast cease-fire plan Syria's foreign minister declared Sunday that a U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war," between Israeli and Hezbollah, which he said the Jewish state cannot win.
08-06-06 - Animals also suffering in Lebanon conflict: rights group "There are places we couldn't reach but Lebanese soldiers would take dog food from us and go feed the dogs themselves," said Rokke who plans to take cats and dogs out of the country and re-house them with new owners abroad.
08-06-06 - Beirut fishermen devastated by Israeli port attack The pair are originally Palestinian. The father fled Gaza in 1948 to find refuge in Lebanon. But now everything they owned in Lebanon, a home overlooking the port and two fishing boats, has been destroyed by the Israeli raids.
08-06-06 - Rice: Iraq isn't becoming another Iran Hagel said this country cannot "ask them to do the things that we're asking them to do in the middle of a civil war, and that's where it's headed." "We're ruining our United States Army. We are decimating our army. We can't continue with the tempo and the commitment that we are on right now," Hagel said on CBS "Face the Nation."
I would imagine that Hagel's realism and candor will earn him the animosity of Cheney and the neocons.
08-06-06 - Robert Fisk: This draft shows who is running America's policy... Israel A close analysis of the American-French draft - the fingerprints of John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, were almost smudging the paragraphs - showed just who is running Washington's Middle East policy: Israel.
08-06-06 - Israeli Arabs get cold greeting from Palestinians The rockets have killed 48 people inside Israel in less than four weeks of fighting, many of them residents of Arab villages.
08-06-06 - The Reuters photo scandal, a photo comparison Photo comparison: One by now infamous photo doctorer, Adnan Hajj and another of same scene by an AP photog
08-06-06 - Lebanon seeks Pakistani troops: report
08-06-06 - Olmert tells Europe to stop preaching to Israel "Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?" Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll.
08-06-06 - Besieged Lebanese turn to Internet Hanady Salman, managing editor of the As-Safir newspaper, said she never had the time or interest to keep a diary. But when Israeli missiles struck a convoy of Lebanese villagers fleeing the southern village of Merwaheen on the third day of the war, killing at least 15 people and blowing children into nearby ravines, the 38-year-old mother was galvanized.
08-06-06 - 'Moment of opportunity': yes, but only if the US asks Israel the hard questions Who knows what new Hizbullah is rising from the dust, amid the survivors at Qana? ...All Israel and the US have gained from this brutal pounding, and the deaths of hundreds of innocents, is increasing enmity and further isolation from the Arab world. Indeed, in their tacit and lonely support for Israel's bombing of Lebanese ambulances, homes, roads, airports, and state infrastructure, US officials have done the Jewish state no favors.
08-06-06 - Israelis differ on missile defense a military analyst said the system only would have offered a very limited shield against the more than 3,000 rockets fired on northern Israel in nearly four weeks of fighting that so far have killed 33 Israelis.
08-06-06 - Bush Backing Israel Despite Divisions "The crisis in the Middle East today has brought us to one of those rare moments that transcend party and ideological lines. There is no daylight at all between the government of Israel, the Bush administration, Congress and the American Jewish community," said William Daroff, director of the Washington office of United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish charitable federations. That's a "rare moment"? Hardly. It is official Congressional and White House policy to pander to Israel.
08-06-06 - A tale of two failed Mideast states Failed states in general, and particularly those in the Middle East, represent potential threats to the US because they could be transformed into terrorist bases. The United States, through its unconditional support of Israel and its policy of collective punishment, has helped further the rapid deterioration of two states - Lebanon and Palestine (not really a state, yet).
08-06-06 - Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image "The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," The Israel-supporters are all up in arms over this photo. First of all, the photo, even doctored, doesn't really add anything to the scene or make it appear any worse. So, it is unclear how this is some kind of conspiracy. Secondly, this will now be wielded as 'evidence' that all photos of Lebanon's devastation are doctored, no doubt. Since one photo was doctored, then all photos that damage Israel must be doctored too; the 'logic' of the Israel-defender. One remedy: look for similar photos of the same scene that were taken by different press agencies.
08-06-06 - DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman A Christian Zionist, a panderer to the extreme right, and a neocon all endorse Lieberman. Say, I wonder why?
08-06-06 - Saudis to sue Israel over $14 billion Lebanon invesments Saudi businessmen are contemplating a lawsuit against Israel for damages over their $14 billion of investments in Lebanon. If they do and they win, it will be the American taxpayers that get to pick up the tab, no doubt.
08-06-06 - Thousands of Montrealers demonstrate against ongoing war in Lebanon Police said more than 15,000 people participated in the rally, making it one of the largest that took place around the world over the weekend
08-06-06 - Indonesia anti-Israel rallies draw wide spectrum
08-06-06 - Protesters invade runway used by US arms flights to Israel
08-06-06 - Moroccans, Indonesians, Belgians march for Lebanon Security sources put the number at the march at about 70,000. Organizers said up to one million people attended
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