World-News

Today is the official date for the handover of responsibilities from the US coalition to NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, where Taliban incursion and coalition failure to keep aid promises complicate NATO's task.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206H.shtml

What is obvious to everyone covering this conflict is that children are bearing the brunt of it. The few official figures collated so far seem to support this. UNICEF says that 37 of the 60 dead in Qana on Sunday were children, and everywhere you go, it seems that it is the children who are being killed, injured and displaced.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206C.shtml

Tote, Verletzte & Vertriebene: Viele Kinder und Jugendliche unter den Opfern im Nahost-Krieg (02.08.06)

Nach Angaben des UN-Kinderhilfswerks Unicef sind bei der israelischen Militäroffensive im Libanon bislang mehr Kinder als Soldaten gestorben. Schätzungsweise ein Drittel der insgesamt 620 Toten und 3200 Verletzten im Libanon seien Kinder und Jugendliche, sagte der Unicef-Geschäftsführer für Deutschland, Dietrich Garlichs, am Dienstag in Berlin. Die Zahl der Vertriebenen bezifferte er auf rund 800.000 Menschen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14144

Independent [UK]

08/02/06

The Government has been rebuffed for the second time in the courts over its use of control orders, amounting to virtual house arrest, for terrorist suspects. The ruling by the Court of Appeal plunges the control order regime, the centrepiece of recent anti-terror legislation, deeper into crisis. Five weeks ago, the High Court denounced the controversial restrictions on six terror suspects as a breach of their human rights as they amounted to a deprivation of liberty. John Reid, the Home Secretary, challenged the ruling, but the appeal judges inflicted a second defeat on the Government...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1209753.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The United Nations Environment Programme has expressed its "grave concern" about oil pollution in Lebanese coastal waters. An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 50 miles of coast.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080106EA.shtml

City marshals blocked a radio personality from feeding homeless people at a City Hall park Monday, and issued summonses to a television news crew covering a publicity protest against a ban on "mobile soup kitchens."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jul/31/073110578.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/439685p-370408c.html


From Information Clearing House

US weapons flights through Prestwick will continue: US FLIGHTS carrying weapons to Israel will continue to call at British airports, including Prestwick, a minister said yesterday.

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1112012006


From Information Clearing House

Volunteers and staff from a Christian Aid-supported organisation working to help those displaced by the conflict in Lebanon say the world needs to understand the depths of the humanitarian crisis unfolding there.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/stories/060728s2.htm



Lebanese Red Cross Repeatedly Targeted

"The night of July 23 we were called to rescue a family whose home was bombed," Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic with the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre told IPS. "Just as I finished loading the three injured people in my ambulance, it was struck by a rocket and all of us were injured."

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/lebanon/000446.php


From Information Clearing House

'These are identified bodies, and the toll does not count the people still believed to be under the rubble,' he said.

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/08/01/afx2918966.html


From Information Clearing House

Britain has blocked moves by the European Union to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14322.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14318.htm

Exclusive International Reports on Qana Massacre
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14315.htm

Our moral culpability for Qana
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14311.htm



Israel admits: There were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike

It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745185.html



Qana bombs an Israeli 'war crime'

A human rights group says the Israeli air strike on Qana that killed 54 civilians is a "war crime". It said the failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants could be judged as a war crime, and called for an UN probe into the conflict.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5232434.stm



Amnesty: 48 Hours Not Enough As War Crimes Continue

"It is utterly shameful that governments who have influence over Israel and Hizbollah and who could help end this crisis, continue to prioritize political and military interests over innocent lives of civilians."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0731-03.htm



Qana Massacre...

The UN is beyond useless. They’ve gone from a union of nations working for the good of the world (if they ever were even that), to a bunch of gravediggers. They’re only good for digging mangled bodies out of the ruins of buildings and helping to identify and put them into mass graves.

http://tinyurl.com/f8zjh


From Information Clearing House



Israel and "moral equivalence"

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/02/06

The Qana massacre was the occasion for a full-court propaganda campaign by Israel's amen corner, and one has to say they rose to the occasion like real pros. First, of course, they expressed remorse -- then, naturally enough, they blamed it all on ... Hezbollah. How so? Well, you see, the Israelis bombed a building filled with children and old people because rockets fired at Israel 'originated immediately next to it.' Yet the Red Cross denied there were any Hezbollah in Qana. The Israelis keep up a constant refrain claiming Lebanon uses its own civilian population as 'human shields,' but the reality is quite different: Lebanese civilians flee when Hezbollah fires a fusillade, because they know the Israelis will soon be bombing the place to perdition...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9459



Bomb them to gain their support?

Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter
08/01/06

An Israeli air strike killed almost 60 civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday. Israeli leaders stress that their primary objective is to degrade Hezbollah's ability to launch rocket attacks against northern Israel, but they also mention another motive: forcing the Lebanese people to understand that supporting Hezbollah will bring them nothing but grief. With that realization, so the reasoning goes, most Lebanese will turn against the terrorist organization. Logic suggests that the more likely reaction will be greater Lebanese hatred of Israel and, hence, more support for Hezbollah. It is bizarre to assume that displacing a population and destroying a country's infrastructure will somehow lead the people being targeted to turn against the adversaries of the attacking power rather than the attacking power itself. Nevertheless, American hawks are urging the Bush administration to emulate Israel's dubious strategy and launch air strikes against Iran ...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6558


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How Can We Stand By And Allow This To Go On?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10689


Informant: Ashley Smith

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The second Kana massacre and the New Middle East
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14384.htm

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Cease Fire Now!

This video is dedicated to the children who have lost their lives because the US, UK and Israel have willingly stopped a ceasefire resulting in the deaths of many civilians in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.

7 Minute Video

- Warning -

This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14337.htm

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Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tragedy in Qana.

Warning

This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Click here to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14502.htm

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The massacre at Qana

Common Dreams
by Kathy Kelly

08/19/06

Looking at the burnt and blackened hillsides throughout southern Lebanon, you can only imagine the cedar trees that only one month ago made these hills as green as the hills in Israel. ... Qana. Who will listen to bereaved mothers entreating the heavens for an end to the hellish, fiery explosions that slaughter their children. The facts tell of a massacre, the astonishing technological capacity to identify and then to exclude the children from life itself. A banner hangs in Qana, addressed to Condoleeza Rice. 'Rice, they will not see 'our new Middle East'...

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0819-26.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Grieving Relatives of Qana Massacre Emerge From the Rubble to Bury Their Dead

We speak with longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly who attended the Qana funeral as well as a Michigan man who lost over 20 members of his family in the Israeli attack on the town.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/22/1421207


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Kelly