Euphoric Reality: More Inconsistencies In Qana Contributed by Bill Faith
As the plot thickens, the waters are getting muddier:
1. A French-language Lebanese magazine, , is now reporting a new wrinkle based upon a source they have inside Hezbollah:
“We have it from a credible source that Hezbollah, alarmed by Siniora’s plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations…. Hezbollah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the diplomatic initiative,” the site stated.
The site’s editors claimed that Hezbollah staged the event because of Qana’s symbolic significance: “They used Qana because the village had already turned into a symbol for massacring innocent civilians, and so they set up ‘Qana 2′.” The incident has indeed been dubbed “The second Qana massacre” by the Arab media.
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2. The media is consistently reporting that 60 dead bodies have been pulled from the rubble. But in fact, the Lebanese Red Cross says that only 28 bodies were recovered.
3. NBC’s Richard Engel says,
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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 2, 2006 at 12:32 PM in , |