Hezbollywood. Was the Qana collapse staged?, page 1


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Topic started on 31-7-2006 @ 04:50 PM by dbates
Hezbollah may be doing a fair job of avoiding Israeli bombs, but they still need some work in the PR department. I chuckled last week as I saw Anderson Cooper on CNN explain how Hezbollah was staging an ambulance show for reporters. This show involved ambulances racing off to nowhere, sirens blaring, to aid victims in an attack that never happened. You should read the entire article if you get a chance, but here's some of the good stuff. (It was even more amusing to watch on television.)


Anderson is doing a few stand-ups, but the Hezbollah representative leading the tour is telling us it's time to move on. We tell him we want to talk to some people who lived here, who witnessed what happened. "Not here," he says. "Maybe at our next stop."

Our car is being led through back streets to a broken-down building with five ambulances parked in front. "These are the emergency workers who respond to casualty calls when Israel drops their bombs," the Hezbollah man says. "Take your pictures and talk to some of them if you'd like." We're growing tired of what is now obviously a dog-and-pony show, but we decide to play along, and approach one driver with a few questions. Anderson asks him what kind of casualties he's seeing, but before he can answer, the ambulance beside us turns on his siren and screeches out, followed by the next ambulance, then the next. It's a well coordinated and not-so-subtle piece of propaganda that might as well come with a soundtrack titled "Hezbollah Cares."


Now we have the tragedy in Qana. No doubt this is a real tragedy, but did the events happen as Hezbollah say they did? Some are reporting that there was up to an 8 hour gap between Israel's bombing and the time the building collapsed. Other oddities include the fact that the roof of the building was intact. This is really odd considering that a bomb was said to have fallen on the building. The facts make you feel as if you have wondered in to Alice's wonderland. The more you look the stranger things seem.


Another mystery is why the people who were in the basement of the building remainder there for seven to eight hours after it was struck.

There are other mysteries. The roof of the building was intact. Journalist Ben Wedeman of CNN noted that there was a larger crater next to the building, but observed that the building appeared not to have collapsed as a result of the Israeli strike.

There was little blood, CNN's Wedeman noted: all the victims, he concluded, appeared to have died while as they were sleeping -- sleeping, apparently, through thunderous Israeli air attacks.



The list goes on and on. There was the combat footage that showed the Israeli attack was accurate, and since the journalist were not allowed to examine the dead bodies, some are now suspecting the the bodies were those of people killed days ago. This is most likely nothing more than another PR attempt by Hezbollah to gain sympathy. It's really odd how the rescue mission didn't start until the morning when the journalist were summoned. Are we really to believe that the survivors would wait for journalist before they started digging for their loved ones?


While Hezbollah and its apologists have been claiming that civilians could not freely flee the scene due to Israeli destruction of bridges and roads, the journalists and rescue teams from nearby Tyre had no problem getting there.

Lebanese rescue teams did not start evacuating the building until the morning and only after the camera crews came.



My personal favorite item in this event is the actor we'll call "Green Helmet Man". This same man is seen in numerous pictures as he holds the bodies of dead children. Over and over again we see this same worker, no doubt just an actor on the payroll of Hezbollah. The real "got-cha" is that someone noted that this same man was seen in the same green helmet back in some 1996 photos.


Who is this man (Some graphic images)

If he had been a genuine rescue worker, he would deserve a medal. Mr "Green Helmet" is everywhere at Qana, rushing around pulling children out of the rubble, carting them to ambulances and even, on the front page of the Guardian, escorting "White Tee-shirt", who also performs his own cameo role, carting round the body of another unfortunate girl, emoting freely while he does so.

The New York Times, however, has "Green Helmet" dragging the body of yet another unfortunate child from the ruins

On 18 April 1996, the village was also visited by death and destruction. re-visiting the photographs of the time, however, who do we see at the centre of the action? Why, "Green Helmet" of course. This is a younger man, without his glasses, but recognisably the same man, in his now classic pose of handling a victim of an Israeli "atrocity".


The author of this blog believes that "Green Helmet Man" and others are taking turns posing with the dead bodies as if they were different victims. How sick is that? "Okay, my turn to pose with the corpse". One of the children was still seen being passed around hours after being photographed in an ambulance. Evidently they had to keep her corpse around for more photo-shoots.

"Green Helmet Man" is obviously very mobile. He was recently featured in footage of Israeli bombings in Tyre.


And here he is again!

This time, according to Reuter's Zohra Bensemra, "Green Helmet" is a Lebanese rescue worker, watching "while a bulldozers clears away the rubble of a building demolished by an Israeli air strike in Sreefa, 18 miles (30km) south east of the port-city of Tyre(Soure)". The dateline is 31 July, 2006, at 10:37 am.

Doesn't Hezbollah have anyone else the media can photograph?



Hat-tip to Secular Blasphemy for the great links and commentary.

[edit on 31-7-2006 by dbates]


reply posted on 1-8-2006 @ 08:48 AM by dbates
Originally posted by Nygdan
The only problem with the 'intentional collpase' idea here is, who was keeping the civilians that survived the initial strike in the building?


I may have found your answer. A Lebanese website is claiming that their sources indicate that Hezbollah placed crippled children in this building and then placed rocket launchers around the building to ensure an Israeli air-strike. The supposed reasoning is that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had suggested moving the Lebanese army into south Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah. This little "massacre" provided the diversion that Hezbollah needed to stay in operation.


Massacre in Cana, the Lebanon negotiations - Israel deferred
Lebanon awoke on a new massacre of innocent, the victims are handicapped children who were taken refuge in a building which was attacked by Israeli aviation

A source generally quite informed tells us his version:
“Hezbollah, wedged by the 7 points suggested by the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who put a plan of deployment of the Lebanese army on all the territory and primarily at the South Lebanon, and thus the disarmament of the militia of the party of God, wanted to ruin these negotiations.

Hezbollah installed a base of launching of rockets on the roof from a building in Cana and piled up crippled children in the firm intention to see a counterpart on behalf of Israeli aviation and to create a new situation, using the massacre of these innocent to take again the initiative of the negotiations. ”


If this is true it explains why no one left the building after the bombing. The poor children were cripples, and their mothers needed help getting the children out. I know, it sounds slightly twisted but something about this incident just isn't right. Did anyone else notice that there were no men seeking shelter in this building when it collapsed? The odds just don't stack up in Hezbollah's favor.

Hezbollywood, a place where even crippled children can get a starring role.


reply posted on 1-8-2006 @ 09:36 AM by xmotex
Oops. Turns out all the "intentional collapse" stuff is BS, the IDF is now admitting they hit the building.

Just goes to show you can't believe everything you read on the internet.
I suspect they gave up on the coverup story, but one of their disinfo agents in Lebanon didn't get the word in time. At least there's one source we can safely discount from now on.

"We did not know of the whereabouts of civilians in the village," Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz was quoted as saying by the NRG Maariv Web site after meeting President Moshe Katsav.

A senior air force commander said a precision-guided bomb was dropped on a home in Qana on the assumption that it was sheltering Hizbollah crews that had fired several volleys of missiles into northern Israel.


I have no doubt the "crippled children" story is similar BS to the "intentional collapse" story.

[edit on 8/1/06 by xmotex]
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