Gillerman on CNN: Hezbollah made civilians stay in building...

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...to create the outrage against Israel.

Dan Gillerman, speaking to Anderson Cooper, accuses Hezbollah of setting up the atrocity in Qana to illicit outrage directed at Israel and to enflame Arabs even more against Israelis.

I don't have a link yet so hopefully some of you are watching AC360.

[LA lady]

1. Absolute BS

I am from Lebanon and am in contact with many people there. They have posted interviews with the survivors who all deny this. It was considered the best basement in town and the safest place to have women and children.

Tens of thousands of civilians remain in villages south of the Litani River, despite IDF warnings to leave. Some have chosen to stay, but the vast majority is unable to flee due to destroyed roads, a lack of gasoline, high taxi fares, sick relatives, or ongoing Israeli attacks. The sick and poor are those who mostly remain behind.

The attack took place around 1:00 a.m. today, when Israeli warplanes fired missiles at the village of Qana. Among the homes struck was a three-story building in which 63 members of two extended families, the Shalhoub and Hashim families, had sought shelter. The civilians had taken refuge there because it was one of the larger buildings in the area and had a reinforced basement, according to the deputy mayor of the town, Dr. Issam Matuni.

According to the Lebanese civil defense and the Lebanese Red Cross, at least 54 civilians, including 27 children, were crushed to death when the building collapsed. Rescue teams were unable to reach the village until 9:00 a.m. because of ongoing heavy IDF bombardment in the area. None of the bodies recovered so far have been militants, and rescue workers say they have found no weapons in the building that was struck.

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/30/lebano13881.htm

Human Rights News

[KoKo]

2. Gillerman was all over CNN/MSNBC yesterday saying same thing & he

was saying this in the UN Security Council Emergency Meeting yesterday saying it and on Blitzer's 5:00 p.m. show saying it again.

He never uses notes...and so he just says the same thing over and over again. Hezbollah uses women and children as shields, Lebanese children raised with hate and sleep with bombs in their beds. (he actually has said that..."Lebanese children sleep with bombs in their beds.")

He seems very strident in his views and seems to get alot of media time. :shrug:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. As always there are endless DIFFERENT excuses for the same crime.

Gee you know your run of the mill grade school principal knows that when you tell N different stories about how something happened YOU ARE LYING.

So which of the N different bullshit stories for why the Atrocity at Qana was not Israel's fault are we supposed to believe is the real story?

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4. un... what do you say to this? "unbelievable" seems lacking.

Yeah - its never the killers' fault.

right

[RagAss]

5. The shit's gotta be drippin out of that guy's ears...

[leftchick]

6. he is a fucking LIAR just like Bolton!

a match made in hell they are....





Israel's United Nations Ambassador Dan Gillerman, left, puts his arm around U.S. Ambassador John Bolton in the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters, Monday July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)