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2006-07-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah rocket attacks are “probable” war crimes: rights group
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Posted by Steve 2006-07-18 09:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Hezbollah: "We didn't fire any rockets, the Jooooos shoot them straight up in the air and they come down on their own cities so they can blame us".
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-18 10:12||   2006-07-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's give them the Milosovic treatment.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 10:13||   2006-07-18 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 The ball bearings in the warhead that struck the railstation were a mistake.
Posted by lotp 2006-07-18 10:30||   2006-07-18 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not like it's the first time ball bearings have been used. Is that getting big negative media play? It's almost as though a bit flipped for a lot of folks with this last set of attacks, even the Saudis. I can believe the Saudis see the hand of Iranian Shiites and want to stop them. But what moved HRW?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 10:43||   2006-07-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 NS, if uncertain, follow the money, I'd guess.

Oscar's only ostrich oiled an orange owl today. Or someone else may have oiled an orange owl today.

If even HRW is pointing a finget at Hizbullah, they are screwed, I tell ya.
Posted by zazz 2006-07-18 11:04||   2006-07-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Definitely a lagging indicator.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 11:17||   2006-07-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Oscar's only ostrich oiled an orange owl today.

zazz: Thank you for that blast from my past!
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-18 11:23||   2006-07-18 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 A serious violation of human rights, ya say? I'm gonna report you to the govamint. What a bunch of delusional loons the HRW are. Hizb'Allah is a serious human rights violation themselves. HRW, wacha gonna do, wacha gonna do when they come for you? Who ya gonna call, the ACLU?
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-07-18 12:07||   2006-07-18 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Dr. Seuss's ABC We read that to trailing daughter#1 from Frankfurt to Prague and back again in 1991. My still-unmarried girlfriend who accompanied us on that trip can recite the whole thing from memory even yet. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-18 12:22||   2006-07-18 12:22|| Front Page Top

#10 How come I never heard this said about explosive vests packed with nails?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-07-18 12:36||   2006-07-18 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Because those are Brave Resistance Fighters.
Posted by lotp 2006-07-18 12:36||   2006-07-18 12:36|| Front Page Top

#12 How come I never heard this said about explosive vests packed with nails?

Dipped in rat poison, to slow coagulation and intensify bleeding, a practice common enough for israeli ER to deal with that on a regular basis... IIRC, there was also an attempt at blowing bags of aids-tainted blood along with shrapnels... didn't work, but the intent was there. Of course, Lotp is right. Freedom fighters(Tm).
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-18 12:45||   2006-07-18 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd have something to say about this but I'm too busy trying to pick my jaw up from the floor.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-18 13:08||   2006-07-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#14 You recall correctly, a5089. Brer Rabbit, the formerly great New York Times and CNN never bother to mention such little trifles, however much the perpetrators boast about it... and it doesn't change the raw casualty numbers, just the quality of life of the wounded. Rat poison on the nails and ball bearings packed in the boom vests has been standing operating procedure for years and years and years.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-18 13:35||   2006-07-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

#15 International humanitarian law prohibits warring parties using weapons in civilian areas that are so inaccurate that they cannot be directed at military targets without a substantial risk of causing harm to civilians.

So much for that ARCLIGHT strike, I guess. Unless we fill the 40 BUFF's up with 500-lb JDAMs?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-07-18 14:43||   2006-07-18 14:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Hmmmm what's that "international humanitarian law"? Does it apply to NK? Arabs? Paleos? Cuba? Venezuela? Burma? China?.....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-07-18 15:09||   2006-07-18 15:09|| Front Page Top

#17 What about all those rockets shot from gaza since Israel left? Wouldn't those be war crimes too? Isn't Hamas culpable, as they're the government?
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2006-07-18 15:51||   2006-07-18 15:51|| Front Page Top

#18 You weren't born yesterday planetdan, were you? Rockets, bombs, nails etc. hitting OCCUPIERS are not considered war crimes by the civilized world. But rockets hitting the OCCUPIED are!
Posted by the Levant 2006-07-18 17:14||   2006-07-18 17:14|| Front Page Top

#19 hee hee.... a Paleo Joe M
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-07-18 17:15||   2006-07-18 17:15|| Front Page Top

#20 And how many years (and subsequent deaths) have this Hezy bombs been going?
Posted by Captain America 2006-07-18 18:23||   2006-07-18 18:23|| Front Page Top

#21 JOE is coherent and funny, not like levintine.
Posted by 6 2006-07-18 19:34||   2006-07-18 19:34|| Front Page Top

#22 Poor Mr. Levant is behind the times. Human Rights Watch just denounced Hizb'Allah's actions as war crimes, and I misdoubt Hamas will be far behind. The tides of History have passed your people by, Mr. Levant, and the world has no sympathy for losers, no matter what pride Mr. Levant may take in such barbaric behaviour.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-18 19:41||   2006-07-18 19:41|| Front Page Top

#23 "Poor Mr. Levant is behind the times"

It, and the rest of the Arab world.
Posted by Fordesque 2006-07-18 20:55||   2006-07-18 20:55|| Front Page Top

#24 Mr. Levant should be behind the times. He's been dead for 35 years. He was great with Jack Parr.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-18 20:58||   2006-07-18 20:58|| Front Page Top

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