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	<title>Comments on: IAF: No rockets or Hezbollah men near Qana building before airstrike (Update: New Qana hoax?)</title>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; IDF: Video proves Baalbek &#8220;hospital&#8221; was actually Hezbollah HQ</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; IDF: Video proves Baalbek &#8220;hospital&#8221; was actually Hezbollah HQ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The only hard evidence I see is the machine gun. A strange item to find on the premises of a hospital, admittedly, but maybe not in the Bekaa Valley. Given their backtrack on Qana, I&#8217;d urge caution. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The only hard evidence I see is the machine gun. A strange item to find on the premises of a hospital, admittedly, but maybe not in the Bekaa Valley. Given their backtrack on Qana, I&#8217;d urge caution. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; IDF: Video proves Baalbek &#8220;hospital&#8221; was actually Hezbollah HQ</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; IDF: Video proves Baalbek &#8220;hospital&#8221; was actually Hezbollah HQ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The only hard evidence I see is the machine gun. A strange item to find on the premises of a hospital, admittedly, but maybe not in the Bekaa Valley. Given their backtrack on Qana, I&#8217;d urge caution. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The only hard evidence I see is the machine gun. A strange item to find on the premises of a hospital, admittedly, but maybe not in the Bekaa Valley. Given their backtrack on Qana, I&#8217;d urge caution. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Redhead Infidel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Redhead Infidel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are many contradictions and sloppy statements in the Haaretz article.  I wrote to the three reporters to request clarifications on the following:


&lt;blockquote&gt;1.  &lt;i&gt;&quot;...the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Does that mean there WERE NONE, or that they just didn&#039;t have the info to give to you?

2.  &lt;i&gt;&quot;However, it [IAF] changed its version on Monday.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

How so?  No one disputes that over 150 rockets have been launched from Qana in the preceding 20 days.

3.  &lt;i&gt;&quot;However, there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

The strike occured between midnight and 1:00 a.m.  Are you trying to say that there were no rocket launches from Qana on the previous day, or as you wrote, the actual &quot;day of the strike&quot; - ie: &lt;i&gt;after midnight&lt;/i&gt;?  It is quite possible that there were no rocket launches between midnight and the time of the Israeli strike - a matter of minutes.  So, technically, your statement is correct, but disingenuous.  Either you are being deliberately misleading, or none of you are very precise and accurate writers.

4.  Your report is contradictory.  First you say &lt;i&gt;&quot;The survivors say rescue teams arrived only in the morning, as night conditions made the rescue mission difficult.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; but then you say &lt;i&gt;&quot;...the electricity and phones in the village of Qana were almost entirely cut-off by IAF attacks.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;  Is that so?  Apparently NOT, since they were able to make the call anyways.  So which is it?  Did the rescue teams get a call at night, but they couldn&#039;t make it because of the dark, or did they get the call in the morning???  You can&#039;t have it both ways.  In either case, you are wrong, the phones were working.  It only matters when the calls were made. 

5.  &lt;i&gt;&quot;The IDF provided no explanation for the second explosion...&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

What second explosion?  Either the building collapsed at midnight due to an IAF strike, and the rescue teams couldn&#039;t make it because it was tragically so dark; OR, the building collapsed in the morning, having nothing to do with the IAF strike. 

6.  &lt;i&gt;&quot;The IAF admits the village was struck three times between Saturday night and Sunday morning.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

I take issue with your loaded use of the negative word &quot;admits&quot;.  A more accurate word would have been &quot;confirms&quot;. 

I find this particular article to be a sloppy bit of reporting.  One would hope that between the three of you, you could apply a little more logic.  You&#039;re not asking the right questions, you&#039;re citing questionable and unnamed sources, and your semantics seem deliberately chosen to paint a highly negative picture of the IDF and IAF.

By the way, did you know that the anti-Israeli left is now using this exact article as their &quot;proof&quot; of evil Israeli intent and a cover-up?  Not well played, Yoav, Yuval, and Amos - not well played, at all.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many contradictions and sloppy statements in the Haaretz article.  I wrote to the three reporters to request clarifications on the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>1.  <i>&#8220;&#8230;the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Does that mean there WERE NONE, or that they just didn&#8217;t have the info to give to you?</p>
<p>2.  <i>&#8220;However, it [IAF] changed its version on Monday.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>How so?  No one disputes that over 150 rockets have been launched from Qana in the preceding 20 days.</p>
<p>3.  <i>&#8220;However, there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The strike occured between midnight and 1:00 a.m.  Are you trying to say that there were no rocket launches from Qana on the previous day, or as you wrote, the actual &#8220;day of the strike&#8221; &#8211; ie: <i>after midnight</i>?  It is quite possible that there were no rocket launches between midnight and the time of the Israeli strike &#8211; a matter of minutes.  So, technically, your statement is correct, but disingenuous.  Either you are being deliberately misleading, or none of you are very precise and accurate writers.</p>
<p>4.  Your report is contradictory.  First you say <i>&#8220;The survivors say rescue teams arrived only in the morning, as night conditions made the rescue mission difficult.&#8221;</i> but then you say <i>&#8220;&#8230;the electricity and phones in the village of Qana were almost entirely cut-off by IAF attacks.&#8221;</i>  Is that so?  Apparently NOT, since they were able to make the call anyways.  So which is it?  Did the rescue teams get a call at night, but they couldn&#8217;t make it because of the dark, or did they get the call in the morning???  You can&#8217;t have it both ways.  In either case, you are wrong, the phones were working.  It only matters when the calls were made. </p>
<p>5.  <i>&#8220;The IDF provided no explanation for the second explosion&#8230;&#8221;</i></p>
<p>What second explosion?  Either the building collapsed at midnight due to an IAF strike, and the rescue teams couldn&#8217;t make it because it was tragically so dark; OR, the building collapsed in the morning, having nothing to do with the IAF strike. </p>
<p>6.  <i>&#8220;The IAF admits the village was struck three times between Saturday night and Sunday morning.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I take issue with your loaded use of the negative word &#8220;admits&#8221;.  A more accurate word would have been &#8220;confirms&#8221;. </p>
<p>I find this particular article to be a sloppy bit of reporting.  One would hope that between the three of you, you could apply a little more logic.  You&#8217;re not asking the right questions, you&#8217;re citing questionable and unnamed sources, and your semantics seem deliberately chosen to paint a highly negative picture of the IDF and IAF.</p>
<p>By the way, did you know that the anti-Israeli left is now using this exact article as their &#8220;proof&#8221; of evil Israeli intent and a cover-up?  Not well played, Yoav, Yuval, and Amos &#8211; not well played, at all.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Patterico&#8217;s Pontifications &#187; Qana Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patterico&#8217;s Pontifications &#187; Qana Questions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] I&#8217;m with Allah: &#8220;As with Haditha, no one on the right wants to believe what happened at Qana happened the way the media says it did. But … it might have.&#8221; It&#8217;s still a fluid story; the proximity of Hezbollah to the building remains an open question, depending on how you define &#8220;near.&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] I&#8217;m with Allah: &#8220;As with Haditha, no one on the right wants to believe what happened at Qana happened the way the media says it did. But … it might have.&#8221; It&#8217;s still a fluid story; the proximity of Hezbollah to the building remains an open question, depending on how you define &#8220;near.&#8221; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Allahpundit</title>
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		<dc:creator>Allahpundit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s nothing wrong with Dan&#039;s site.  It&#039;s loading beautifully for me.

Settle down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with Dan&#8217;s site.  It&#8217;s loading beautifully for me.</p>
<p>Settle down.</p>
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		<title>By: Kralizec</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kralizec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me guess; Dan Riehl&#039;s server has been knocked out by a distributed denial of service attack.  If so, it figures.  Now I have a new reason to want to destroy Islam.

And I &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; want to destroy Islam; I&#039;m finished with that &quot;freedom of religion&quot; nonsense.  From now on, any religion with a holy book that promotes distributed denials of service gets whacked.

And if you&#039;re wondering where the Koran mentions DDOS&#039;s, I think they plainly fall under the &quot;every strategem&quot; clause of Sura 9 verse 5.  Come on, you don&#039;t have to be an imam to know that &quot;every strategem&quot; means &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; strategem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me guess; Dan Riehl&#8217;s server has been knocked out by a distributed denial of service attack.  If so, it figures.  Now I have a new reason to want to destroy Islam.</p>
<p>And I <i>do</i> want to destroy Islam; I&#8217;m finished with that &#8220;freedom of religion&#8221; nonsense.  From now on, any religion with a holy book that promotes distributed denials of service gets whacked.</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re wondering where the Koran mentions DDOS&#8217;s, I think they plainly fall under the &#8220;every strategem&#8221; clause of Sura 9 verse 5.  Come on, you don&#8217;t have to be an imam to know that &#8220;every strategem&#8221; means <i>every</i> strategem.</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle Malkin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Malkin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Forward to Bekaa Valley, back to Qana...&lt;/strong&gt;

The Counterterrorism Blog examines the IDF&#039;s expansion of the ground campaign in Lebanon. Meantime, the IAF is increasing activity in the Bekaa Valley, where Hezbollah and their Syrian and Iranian backers have amassed power. Rick Moran: The Lebanese h...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Forward to Bekaa Valley, back to Qana&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>The Counterterrorism Blog examines the IDF&#8217;s expansion of the ground campaign in Lebanon. Meantime, the IAF is increasing activity in the Bekaa Valley, where Hezbollah and their Syrian and Iranian backers have amassed power. Rick Moran: The Lebanese h&#8230;</p>
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