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July 27, 2006
UN Participants in Terror
The photo is everywhere, Hezbollah's flag flying next to the UN flag at the outpost in Lebanon that was hit by an Israeli missle this week.
The fact that the UN participates in terrorism against Israel is old news, watch this video, shot by a Reuters reporter on May 11, 2004.
In the video, Palestinian terrorists commit a terrorist act in Israel and waiting nearby is a UN ambulance. After the shooting, the UN ambulance pulls up, the terrorists jump in, and they are spirited away from the scene of the crime.
There can be no doubt whose side the UN is on. There can be no doubt that UN equipment, personnel and resources are used to commit terrorist attacks in Israel.
I've had this video for years, and I forgot about it. Thank you Chrissie, for reminding me.
CLARIFICATION:
In response to the many inquiries I've had concerning this video, following is a clarification of the event caught on film. This was stored on my old hard drive (what a pain to hook it up but worth it). I don't know who wrote most of this, the links were not there in my notes, I just touched it up a bit and posted it. There is no plagiarism intended, I just don't know who to credit Source turns out to be a JWR article by Michelle Malkin.
As I indicated above, the video shot by a Reuters cameraman on May 11, 2004. The film documents two ambulances with flashing lights entering a street in Southern Gaza. Shots ring out accompanied by shouts in arabic, including the ever popular allah akbar. The terrorists make their escape in the ambulances, which are clearly marked with the UN logo and which are flying the UN flag.
What the video does not show is the result of the terrorist raid. The terrorists you see in the film murdered six Israeli soldiers that night, aided and abetted by paid employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). That's your tax dollars at work!
Rueters declined to show the footage to American viewers and it was AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, who originally posted the video on its Web approximately one month after it was filmed. Not a single U.S. television news station has ever expressed interest in showing the footage to American viewers.
UNRWA denies the incident and denies other similar documented incidents as well. UNRWA claims that their drivers were forced to cooperate in terrorist attacks despite the fact that one of its senior employees, Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah, has confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives, and terrorists to and from attacks, while he was supposed to be distributing food supplies to Palestinian refugees. Hamas terrorist Nidal 'Abd al-Fataah 'Abdallah Nizal worked as an UNRWA ambulance driver and freely admits he has used an emergency vehicle to transport munitions to terrorists.
But the UN isn't the only humanitarian organization to assist terrorists in Israel. An intensive care ambulance carrying the acronym of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was used to deliver an explosive belt found underneath a stretcher on which a sick child was lying in spring 2002. Female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, who blew herself up in a 2002 attack in Jerusalem, was a medical secretary for the PRCS.
UNRWA has long been suspected of providing aid and comfort to terrorists. Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Va.), chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, documented how "buildings and warehouses under UNRWA supervision are allegedly being used as storage areas for Palestinian ammunition and counterfeit currency factories."
Cantor's 2002 report also noted that UNRWA hosts summer camps in martyrdom for young terrorists-in-training. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ.) has also lobbied for increased scrutiny of UNRWA funding, which has been used to publish anti-Semitic textbooks and posters in schools that "glorify homicide bombers and the slaughter of innocents."
Moreover, according to Smith, a UNRWA school hosted a Hamas rally by a key Hamas leader in 2001 and another UNRWA employee praised homicide bombers, proclaiming: "The road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies."
While jihadists gain shelter in its emergency vehicles, the U.N. continues to lambaste the U.S. for assorted wartime "atrocities." Not one more American dime should go to fund the bloody self-righteousness of the world's most generous terrorist relief organization.
Posted by LindaSoG at July 27, 2006 02:02 AM
Comments
Hi Linda, thank you for the video.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 27, 2006 08:53 AM
It pains me to know my tax dollars support the Useless Nations!!! We don't need them, they need us, we need to leave - NOW!!!
Posted by: Greta (Hooah Wife) at July 27, 2006 04:30 PM
Sometimes I think you bloggers are the only ones inclined to share the truth with people. The selective reporting done by the pinko-media is sickening.
Best
GM
Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at July 27, 2006 08:05 PM
Thank you Linda. You and Chrissie do more to get the truth out in one day than the news media does in a year. The UN by it's actions speaks louder than words ever could. People should read the UN's charter and compare it to the facts, track the peace keeping roles extolled in Africa, their ability to partition countries and provide aid and comfort to terror organizations, (Lebanon 28 years, (Palestine for 56 years) and their legacy of reducing productive countries to third world dictatorships.
Posted by: Jack at July 27, 2006 10:05 PM
Is there a way to download that video for playback in Windows Media Player?
Posted by: WOT at July 29, 2006 04:43 AM
Yes WOT, I can email you the video in a format for windows media player.
Posted by: LindaSoG at July 30, 2006 10:27 AM
Thank you LindaSoG.
I've looked but haven't found confirmation that the UN's Khiyam post is the same as the post in the photo of the Hezbollah and UN Flag poles cheeck-to-jowel.
But the site was adjacent to an old underground hospital (dating back to the British presence during WWII). It was used by the South Lebanese Army as a prison during the Israeli occupation. After withdrawal in 2000, the Hezbollah took it over. Apparently there are standing allegations of the torture at the prison. With some USAID funds the locales made it into a museum run by the Hezbollah.
I am still looking for a reporter's account of watching this area during recent fighting. If I recall correctly (and I may be wrong -- it could be another part of the border conflict) the report marvelled at the irony that the Hezbollah were biding their time in the same bunker that had once imprisoned their old comrades. I wish I had that reference but I read it and moved on. In any case, this would fit the bunker-tunnel pattern now being discovered and confronted by the IDF/IAF. The existence of an underground building, which has withstood all the fighting of the past few decades, and on the leeside of a hilly area just south of the UN post, would be a prime target if detected. Not only would it house fighters; it would be a supplies cache. There would be lots of Hezbollah traffic, coming and going.
Apparently deliberate, indeed. The UN reported Hezbollah activity in the area up to about 1 hour before the UN post area was shelled. The BBC's animated version of the incident shows a wall, one-storey high, a hundred yards or so in front of the UN three-storey building and down the hillside. This must have been representative of a protective barrier and would make a very good site for Hezbollah rocket launches or just for gaining a strategic advantage in viewing the area of operations down the valley and on the Golan Heights. Just next to this wall, in the BBC animation, is another smaller building -- perhaps the museum. Running around in halfton trucks is standard operating procedure for the Hezbollah in the area. The UN reported that they had not observed Hezbollah for about one hour prior to the shelling of the post; but given the known bunker next door, and the wall (if it actually existed apart from the animation), and the bunker-tunnel preparations, the lack of visual contact with Hezbollah suggests that there was no primary target for the IDF/IAF.
If it was the wall, rather than the post itself, it is not clear that the UN observers inside the post -- and down in their underground bunker beneath the post -- would have observed the primary target.
The vantage point of this location is in on high ground on a plateau which oversees the Golan Heights. Very strategic. If there was any suspicion of Hezbollah activity, even for a very brief interlude, the IDF had to knock it out. The damage that could have been done to Israeli positions on the Heights cannot be underestimated.
Posted by: WOT at July 30, 2006 02:09 PM
Red Cross (or Red Crescent) and UN trucks seem to keep popping up as useful covers of choice for these people. Even as these idiots continue to flaunt and completely ignore any and all rules of war and simple human dignity, our own left continue to support them by creating even more "civilized rules of engagement" and making sure WE -- emphasis on WE, not THEM -- adhere to them rank-and-file. Even as our side gets more and more mired in the trivial bureaucracy of the self-righteous. Oh, and BTW -- what the hell was a Chinese UN "observer" doing in the middle of the battle?
This is an ongoing war like no other: the normal rules of engagement are gone and there needs to be a completely new set of rules for dealing with this threat that won't go away until we ALL realize a think-outside-of-the-box solution is the only thing that will work. For such supposed free-thinkers, Liberals can be incredibly anal and rigid when it comes to imposing their narrow-minded agendas. I've linked to your post as well as posted your incredible YouTube video. Thanks for making it available!
Posted by: RobertinSeattle at July 30, 2006 03:18 PM
Typo correction: "The UN reported that they had not observed Hezbollah [near the post] for about one hour prior to the shelling of the post; but given the known bunker next door, and the wall (if it actually existed apart from the animation), and the bunker-tunnel preparations, the lack of visual contact with Hezbollah suggests that there [probably was a primary target for the IDF/IAF but not noticed by the UN observers."
I'll add that if the IDF/IAF had targeted the underground museum/bunker next door to the UN post, or if it had targeted the wall in front of the post, it becomes more plausible that an error occured in communications. Even if that underground museum served merely as a resting place for combattants, it would be a viable target. Communications with their own mobile rocket launching units would make even one combattant on that vantage point a very important military target that might have justified the risk entailed in shelling so near the UN post. The IDF apparently has acknowledged that the post itself was targeted, in error, so it does look, for now, that there was confusion caused by the fog of war.
Posted by: WOT at July 30, 2006 10:17 PM