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2008-07-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah parade farewell their fighters returned bodies

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-20 01:14|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 ... or killed in custody, but why would the world media be interested in checking if that were true?

Posted by Odysseus 2008-07-20 16:59|| 2008-07-20 16:59|| Front Page Top

#2 the following comments published in the Blacksmiths of Lebanon blog: And there was a certain sleight of hand in all this. Mr Nasrallah had promised to retrieve the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, and they included the remains of 19-year-old Dalal Moghraby, which were supposedly stacked on the first lorry to cross the border yesterday. She was the girl who led 11 Palestinian and Lebanese gunmen in an attack on the Israeli coast road north of Tel Aviv. Cornered by the Israeli [sic] army, she decided to fight it out. Thirty-six people died and a surviving videotape shows an Israeli agent, a certain Ehud Barak yes, the man who is now Israels Defence Minister firing shots into her body and dragging her across a road. Mr Barak was one of the Israeli cabinet members who voted for the return of her corpse yesterday. But the Palestinians, it turned out, did not want their dead returned to Lebanon. Dalal Moghrabys mother Amina Ismail, for example, wished her remains to lie where she was buried in Israel the land which she and millions of other refugees still regard as part of Palestine. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command said it wanted its dead martyrs to remain on Palestinian land as they would have wished, and asked Hizbollah to exclude them from the returning corpses. No such luck. For Hizbollah had other ideas and with the agreement of the Israelis, of course brought them back to the land of their exile.

Also from the same blog:

Net gains:
Sami Kuntar
199 bodies of Lebanese and Arab fighters.
*Kohdor Zaidan
*Maher Kourani
*Mohammeda Srour
*Hussein Suleiman

*Technically not a net gain, as they were captured during the 2006 war.

Net Losses:
1200 civilians dead,400 of them under 13.
4400 civilians injured, 770 if them permannetly.
1 million people displaced from their homes.
125000housing units damaged or destroyed.
250 Hizbollah fighters killed.
80% southern villages destroyed.
5 billion economic damage.
15 billion long term economic looses.
91 bridges destroyed.
Northern Gaharreoccupied.
The continuing brain drain of Lebanon, etc.etc.

And they have S. Kuntar.

Posted by Glomomp Smith2601 2008-07-20 21:06|| 2008-07-20 21:06|| Front Page Top

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