40 dead? One dead? Whatever.
posted at 12:33 pm on August 7, 2006 by Bryan
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When did Ray Nagin become Prime Minister of Lebanon?
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.
“The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person killed,” Reuters quoted Siniora as saying. “They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people … thank God they have been saved.”
Siniora had earlier told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut that the attack “was a horrific massacre … in which more than 40 martyrs were victims of deliberate bombing.”
Saniora said he had based the initial tally on unspecified information that he had received, The Associated Press reported. He offered no other explanation for the error.
I can offer two explanations: Either he listened to Hezbollah which has an interest in smearing Israel, or he made it up to create another Qana (where the toll has gone down from about 60 to 28) to smear Israel. If inflating death tolls was good enough for Ray–who predicted a Katrina death toll of 10,000 when it turned out to be a well under a fifth of that–apparently it’s good enough for Fouad.
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Is the hurricane relief ad directly under the Ray Nagin-referencing post a case of sad coincidence, cutting irony, or brilliant unintentional comedy?
Kid from Brooklyn on August 7, 2006 at 12:45 PM
Never mind. The ad just rotated. Coincidence it is; with apologies.
Kid from Brooklyn on August 7, 2006 at 12:46 PM
40 dead, one dead … same thing, except it’s different.
And we’re supposed to beleive the Lebanese govt. is innocent in all this when they engage in this sort of Hezbollah-like hyperbole?
thirteen28 on August 7, 2006 at 12:52 PM
If they really were “martyrs”, then the deliberate bombing was more than justified. Too bad they missed 39 if that is the case.
wytammic on August 7, 2006 at 12:56 PM
They rush to make a statement, any statement. The worse news the better for their purposes. If they get their version out quick enough, the facts will take a while to catch up.
High Desert Wanderer on August 7, 2006 at 12:58 PM
PM Olmert tells Europe to stop preaching.
Entelechy on August 7, 2006 at 1:22 PM
Why bother to even tell the truth, when you have AP, Reuters and the rest of the MSM on your side — just keep throwing numbers out there, to see what sticks.
Rick on August 7, 2006 at 1:27 PM
Green Hat must have shown the same body forty times.
gary on August 7, 2006 at 4:05 PM
Clone stamp body count perhaps?
RW_theoriginal on August 7, 2006 at 5:56 PM
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