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The UN impartial? No chance!!

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    The UN impartial? No chance!!

    UNIFIL – Hezbollah's Secret Intelligence Service

    Throughout the month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, UNIFIL's website served as Hassan Nasrallah's personal intelligence services.

    All he needed to do was log on to UNIFIL's official website to find daily, real time intelligence about the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.

    UNFIL posted precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction.

    New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old. At the same time, not a single item of intelligence regarding Hezbollah's forces made it to UNIFIL's website, in case Israel might be checking in.

    The Weekly Standard reported that a review of every single UNIFIL web posting showed that, “while UNIFIL was daily revealing the towns where Israeli soldiers were located, the positions from which they were firing, and when and how they had entered Lebanese territory, it never described Hezbollah movements or locations with any specificity whatsoever.”

    The Standard provided an example, posted July 25:
    “Yesterday and during last night, the IDF moved significant reinforcements, including a number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and infantry, to the area of Marun Al Ras inside Lebanese territory. The IDF advanced from that area north toward Bint Jubayl, and south towards Yarun.”

    The previous day, UNIFIL revealed that the IDF stationed between Marun Al Ras and Bint Jubayl were "significantly reinforced during the night and this morning with a number of tanks and armored personnel carriers."

    When reporting on Hezbollah, the UNFIL website spoke in vague generalities, saying only that Hezbollah fired “rockets in large numbers from various locations.”

    Analysts from both the United States and Israel agreed the UNIFIL intel was of significant value to Hezbollah and exposed 'Israeli forces to grave danger' while obscuring intelligence about Hezbollah that would have aided the Israelis.


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    "Why of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who
    determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the
    people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked
    and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
    country to danger. It works the same in any country.

    Hermann Goering
    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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      #3
      Feck off Chico, you are worse than XSLT!

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        #4
        See ... I was right. The media made the real difference in this conflict.
        It's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. www.areyoupopular.mobi

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          #5
          Mind you, I'm not surprised the UN are a bit p*ssed with the Israeli's since the latter blew up four of their observers in a well-marked post in South Lebanon on 25th July.
          It's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. www.areyoupopular.mobi

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            #6
            To be fair to the israelis, it did take them a good few attempts before they hit the UN outpost.

            If they had been serious, rather than having a bit of a laugh, it would have been over much much quicker...
            Last edited by mcquiggd; 30 August 2006, 21:20.
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              #7
              And to be even fairer UN observers had reported Hisbulla using the UN position as cover before eventually being taken "care of" by Israel.

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                #8
                And when did Israel complained about such UN activity? Surely they should have gotten all Press of the world to see what UN is allegedly doing, before resorting to bomb attack?

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                  #9
                  What the UN is doing? In the most part around the world that is feck all squared...

                  Older and ...well, just older!!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by AtW
                    And when did Israel complained about such UN activity? Surely they should have gotten all Press of the world to see what UN is allegedly doing, before resorting to bomb attack?
                    what you mean the anti-semitic media like the BBC?
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