Thursday, 27 July 2006, 11:29 GMT 12:29 UK
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Thursday July 27, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Osama bin Laden's deputy issued a worldwide call today for Muslims to rise up in holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq".
Ayman al-Zawahiri warned that al-Qaida would not stand "idly by, humiliated", as Israeli "shells burn our brothers". In a video tape broadcast by al-Jazeera, the Egyptian terror leader said: "How can we remain silent while watching bombs raining on our people? Oh Muslims everywhere, I call on you to fight and become martyrs in the war against the Zionists and the Crusaders. " Comment: Ah yes, we were wondering when 'ol "al-Zawahiri" would speak up and help the US and Israel to demonise Hizb'allah by association. Isn't it always the way? This little ploy, stage-managed by the US or Israel, will now help to remind the world that Israeli and American murder of Lebanese civilians is all about the "war on terror". Remember 9/11! Remember the pain?! Let's kill the Arabs!! Just don't remember that the Israeli and US government's carried out 9/11.
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By Irwin Arieff
Reuters Wed Jul 26, 2006 UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations said on Wednesday it asked Israel a dozen times to stop bombing near a U.N. post in Lebanon in the hours before an Israeli air attack destroyed the position killing four peacekeepers.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan initially referred to Tuesday's deadly Israeli strike as the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the Khiam U.N. observer post. But he softened his stance after talking with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who said he believed it was a mistake and would order an investigation. "We await the end of the investigations, and I am grateful for the prime minister for what he has said, and we accept his words," Annan said in Rome, where he was attending a conference on the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah. Jane Holl Lute, a deputy head of U.N. peacekeeping operations, told the Security Council behind closed doors there were 21 strikes within 300 meters (yards) of the observer post during the six hours before it was completely destroyed. Twelve of the 21 struck within 100 meters (yards), including four which scored direct hits, Holl Lute said, according to a text of her remarks. |
Last Updated Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:09:07 EDT
CBC News Israeli government officials are expected to decide Thursday whether they will widen the military offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon after a summit of world leaders failed to reach a consensus on conditions for a ceasefire.
Military officials have told reporters they would like to expand the military campaign that includes air strikes, a naval blockade and ground operations. An aide to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel should increase its air strikes on villages to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure. |
By HUSSEIN DAKROUB
AP Jul 27, 2006 JERUSALEM - Top Israeli Cabinet ministers on Thursday decided not to expand the country's Lebanon offensive, Israel Radio reported. But they approved calling up three additional divisions of reserve soldiers.
During a meeting of the security Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the goals of Israel's 17-day offensive are being met. |
BBC
27/07/2006 From mass targeting of mobile phones with voice and text messages to old-fashioned radio broadcasts warning of imminent attacks, Israel is deploying a range of old and new technologies in Lebanon as part of the psychological operations ("psyops") campaign supplementing its military attacks.
Israeli leaflet says: "People of Lebanon! Understand! A face like a brother, a back of the head like a snake." Israel dropped leaflets over Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon According to US and UK media outlets, Israel has reactivated a radio station to broadcast messages urging residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate the region. [...] According to an unconfirmed report by Egypt's Middle East News Agency, Israel managed on Sunday "to intercept the satellite transmissions of Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel for the third successive day, replacing it with Israeli transmissions that reportedly showed Hezbollah command sites and rocket launching pads which Israel claimed it has raided". Comment: Note the fact that Israel has transposed its own broadcast over Hizb'allah broadcasts. Didn't know this was possible? Wake up! And imagine all the possibilities...
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By JIM SCIUTTO
METULLA, Israel July 25, 2006 Now more Israeli soldiers are on the way, including an armored unit being transferred from Gaza to Lebanon. They have been told civilians have left the region where they will fight.
"Over here, everybody is the army," one soldier said. "Everybody is Hezbollah. There's no kids, women, nothing." Another [Israeli] soldier put it plainly: "We're going to shoot anything we see." |
By Augustus Richard NortonJuly 27, 2006 edition
BOSTON - Israel's war with Hizbullah shows no sign of relenting, despite the extraordinary human and economic costs on both sides of the border.
More than 400 Lebanese have been killed, at least 17 Israeli civilians have been felled by rockets that threaten the northern third of Israel, Lebanon's infrastructure has been decimated, and many poor Lebanese (mostly Shiite Muslims) are now homeless. Comment: More American equating of Hezbollah's rockets with the Israeli army.
These people should be ashamed. |
Rory McCarthy in Haifa, Suzanne Goldenberg in Tyre and Ian Black in Jerusalem
Thursday July 27, 2006 The Guardian Growing evidence that the ground battle in Lebanon will be far tougher than Israel had expected emerged yesterday after firefights against Hizbullah in two border villages left Israeli troops counting their highest death toll in a single day since the conflict began.
Up to 13 Israeli soldiers were killed and many more wounded yesterday in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil during the fiercest battle so far in the Middle East conflict. Nearby, in the village of Maroun el-Ras, which troops had entered at the weekend, an Israeli officer was reported killed. |
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