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The briefing that follows summarizes Amnesty International’s initial assessment and concerns on the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon that has taken place during the conflict. It is based on first-hand information from a field mission which has visited Lebanon.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGMDE180072006


From Information Clearing House

A 16-year old Christian girl screaming "I want my Daddy" as her father's mutilated body lay a few metres away from her; the town mukhtar discovering that his wife, Collette, had been decapitated by one of the Israeli missiles; the Lebanese Red Cross volunteer who went into the darkness of wartime Lebanon to give water and sandwiches to the refugees and was cut down by another missile, and whose friends could not reach him to save his life.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14661.htm

By Saad Eddin Ibrahim

President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be quite right about a new Middle East being born. In fact, their policies in support of the actions of their closest regional ally, Israel, have helped midwife the newborn. But it will not be exactly the baby they have longed for. For one thing, it will be neither secular nor friendly to the United States. For another, it is going to be a rough birth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14670.htm

AntiWar.Com
by Leon Hadar

08/24/06

Since the start of the current Middle East crisis, analysts have been trying to figure out who is responsible for this mess. Who made the crucial decisions that triggered the fighting between the Israeli military and the Hezbollah guerrillas, which has resulted in death of many Israeli and Lebanese civilians and the destruction of villages and urban centers in both countries? And why were these decisions made in the first place? Or to put it in more stark terms: Cui bono? Who benefits from what seems to be, to anyone watching the horrifying images on television, an unwinnable war as well as a major humanitarian crisis?

http://www.antiwar.com/hadar/?articleid=9599


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753674.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

08/21/06

Israel suffers from the cult of the offensive, which also afflicts the U.S. military. Believing that grabbing the initiative and taking the fight to the enemy wins wars, both of these militaries have stumbled into the tar pit of fighting wars that only guerrillas could love. Both Israel and the U.S. militaries should have known the potency of defensive guerrilla warfare tactics from their prior experiences in Lebanon and Vietnam. But both were arrogant in thinking that their forces should not 'slum' by training to fight against such rag tag enemies -- even though it was fairly clear that politicians with no military training would be oblivious to the internal contradictions of counterinsurgency warfare and would once again order them to undertake it...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1794


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=counterinsurgency