Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: I missili che colpiscono Israele NON POSSONO essere stati lanciati da Qana

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=345
Hizbullah has fired almost 2,000 missiles into Israel over the last
fortnight, killing more than 50 Israelis and forcing almost one million
into air raid shelters.
Despite this provocation, however, Israel's response has been sharply
criticised as "disproportionate" in many quarters. In the aftermath of
the deaths of dozens of innocent Lebanese women and children at Qana
yesterday, even the US has urged the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to
modify their responses to Hizbullah's attacks.
IDF spokespeople are maintaining that Hizbullah had been mounting
missile attacks on Israeli territory from Qana in recent days. The IDF
has claimed it targeted the three-storey house in Qana at 1.30am local
time in the belief it contained a Hizbullah "asset".
Any investigation into the targeting of this house will have to
consider precisely what kind of Hizbullah "asset" could possibly have
been hidden in a modest, low-rise building among the narrow streets of
a village such as Qana.
The type of missiles being fired by Hizbullah at Israeli cities cannot
be fired from within houses, mosques, hospitals or even UN facilities
as has been suggested by the IDF. Due to the massive "back-blast"
caused by the rocket launchers of these missiles, they can only be
fired from open ground. To fire them from within a building would
result in the instant death of the missile crew and probable
destruction of the missile before launch. Most of the missiles are
truck-mounted and are fired - on open ground - from the backs of
flat-bedded trucks or larger four-wheel-drive vehicles.
When fired, these missiles generate an enormous flare of light, heat
and sound energy - a heat and light signature which is readily detected
by IDF target-acquisition systems. Accurate retaliatory fire can be
directed at Hizbullah launch sites by IDF aircraft and ground artillery
in seconds. Such a reaction would be considered by international
military norms to be proportionate and within the general "rules of
engagement".
In these circumstances, having fired their missiles, Hizbullah tends to
disperse as rapidly as possible. It is unlikely that a flat-bedded
truck with a multilaunch rocket-system mounted on it could be easily
and rapidly hidden in a village as small as Qana. Nor is it likely that
such a truck-mounted weapon or four-wheel-drive vehicle could easily be
hidden in a house such as the one targeted by the IDF yesterday.
The pattern and circumstances of the attack are sinister. With no
telltale scorch marks from a Hizbullah missile launch visible near the
destroyed house, and with no Hizbullah fighters among the dead and
injured, the question remains as to what kind of "asset" the IDF could
credibly allege to have been contained within the building.
The timing of the attack, taking place as it did during a period of
relative calm and not in the immediate aftermath of a Hizbullah missile
launch, speaks of a punitive strike designed simply to kill members of
the Shia community from which Hizbullah is drawn and receives its moral
support. The targeting of unarmed Shia women and children would
represent a deliberate targeting of innocent civilians for retaliatory
or punitive purposes, and may well constitute a war crime.
Tom Clonan is The Irish Times security analyst.

credibly allege to have been contained within the building.
Certo, certo... :)
*pat pat*
-Stefano

 "ATTACK" o "TERRORISM".
E' finkelstein.
Oggi Torrieri sta dando fondo alle stronzate.
Tb


per una volta hai ragione, ormai israele puo' essere annoverato tragli
stati 
che applicano il terrorismo di stato.
Pietro
[...]

stati che
... sono vittime del terrorismo di Hizbullah.
Grazie per la tua comprensione.
-Stefano

 -Stefano

militare per imporre la propria visione a tutti gli altri.
Certo, certo....
*pat pat*
-Stefano