Journalists Were Tipped Off Prior to Attack on IDF Soldiers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 10:12 AM
Lebanese journalists were tipped off of the intention to ambush Israeli Defense Forces near the Israel-Lebanon border on Tuesday. One journalist was killed during the attack. Another journalist was injured.
Civil defense workers carry the body of journalist Assaf Abu Rahal after he was killed in the exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, and Lebanon said at least two of its soldiers and a journalist were killed in shelling. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)
YNet News reported:
Journalists and photographers were briefed in advance of the intention to ambush IDF troops and were therefore present at the site of Tuesday’s deadly clash between Israeli and Lebanese forces, IDF officials charge.
The lethal skirmish ensued after IDF forces performing routine operations in a border-area enclave came under Lebanese fire. The Israeli troops fired back, killing three Lebanese soldiers and a local journalist.
The killed correspondent, Assaf Abu Rahal, worked for Hezbollah-affiliated Beirut daily al-Akhbar.
Another journalist, Ali Shuaib from Hezbollah’s al-Manar station, was wounded in the incident and was taken to hospital for treatment.
IDF officials raised questions about the presence of journalists and even broadcast trucks at the scene even before the clash ensued, charging this further reinforces suspicions that the incident was a well-planned Lebanese ambush.
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Granny commented:
Oh dear! How terrible. NOT. If they participated in this illegal assault on the Israeli’s then they were combatants, not journolists, and they got what they asked for. Hallelujah!
DINORight commented:
Who briefed these “journalists?” If they got a “tip” from Hezbollah, then they are giving away the information needed to take themselves out.
Maybe someone in the IDF (or some other organization – hint, hint) should “get into” journalism (i.e. embedded infiltration). Then they might be able to take out the enemy and get some PEACE in the area.
I pray for the peace of Israel, and the defeat of her enemies.
greenfairie commented:
The Hezbollah branch of JournoList.
Chisum commented:
Reflexively Anti-Israel
http://www.yourish.com/2010/08/04/11750
Granny commented:
Some people in our government have a VERY strange idea of what is and what is not Constitutional.
Janet Napolitano is now admitting that those body scanners performing virtual strip searches at US airports are indeed, contrary to assurances given to the American public, STORING THE IMAGES! And the machines can be operated remotely.
TSA says the scans are perfectly constitutional. . .
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html
Paul A\\\'Barge commented:
Kill all the journo-lists.
Militant Conservative commented:
I am deeply saddened……..that more journolists were not present.
bill-tb commented:
Two journOlistsa bite the dust. Good shooting.
apodoca commented:
No, no. Not “Lebanese soldiers.” Rather “Hezbollah terrorists.”
StrngernFiction commented:
Some interesting news on Shirley Sherrod. It seems that some more of the ugly truth about this LOSER has surfaced (although its surfacing IS quite SWEET IMHO):
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Former-Shirley-Sherrod-nci-employee-accuses-her-of-exploiting-black-farm-laborers-99880014.html#ixzz0va154iwo
John Cunningham commented:
4 good kills, too bad that some of the Muslim terrorists and “journalists” got away alive. better luck next time!
templar knight commented:
Just wanted to make a quick observation on this story: Hezbollah and journalism are mutually exclusive terms. Nothing about Hezbollah propaganda can ever be called journalism, and the people who promote it are not journalists.
Now, let me correct the story:
One Hezbollah propaganda agent was killed, and another was wounded during an ambush of Israeli forces by elements of the Lebanese Army acting under the direction of Hezbollah agents.
kato commented:
Was the 60 Minutes crew tipped off? Was Mike Wallace? 60 Minutes has a long history of doing hit pieces on Israel going back as far as the first intifada.
Remember the little Palestinian boy who was shot while huddling with his father behind a low wall. The Zeropean journalists who filmed it were with the Palestinian shooters. But they fabricated a story that the boy was shot by the Israelis. 60 Minutes ran with the phony story.
wanumba commented:
That’s the real-life version of the empty classroom “ethical dilemma” the journalists get all tangled up with “nuance,” claiming they are “above it all.”
But that’s fallacy. By saying nothing, one is not neutral, one actively enables evil.
By not saying anything, they got what they knew was planned for the IDF.
Chisum commented:
This is a surprise!
U.N. supports Israeli claim on Lebanon clash
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6721ET20100804?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FworldNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+International%29
zeus commented:
Never trust a photograph released by AP stringers. Too often they have been involved in the staging of the photo.
In this instance, the “journalist” seems particularly non-traumatized, his left arm neatly folded across his middle. Would not the dead weight of an arm slide off the body. The person closest to the camera looks peculiarly unconcerned, almost smirking, in a way that a trauma-unit person is unlikely to exhibit.
To be sure, the caption does not say that the “journalist” is dead. The stretcher bears carry a “body,” but the caption does not say it is a dead body. It does say that he is a journalist, but not that he is a/the dead journalist. But that is what the caption leads one to believe.
Trust no photo or video. Unless there is more than one source, as the Capitol Hill n-word faux-incident demonstrated.
Just_Saying commented:
If Shakespeare was around today, he would have written “kill the journolists (sic).” There are no innocent “journolists (sic)”…
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Corporal Vere commented:
Sic semper media.
The IDF is making the world as better place.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Those are journo-terrorists, not journalists. They are propagandists. This reminds me of the so called paleo journalist who was caught in cross fire and killed, everyone rushed to condemn Israel for killing the guy, cause journalists are sacrosanct. But it turned out the guy was affiliated with a terror group. Oop.s
D. G. Neree commented:
Well, if journalists are invited by Hezbollah to witness their own deaths… of course, Hezbollah will gain a lot of sympathy this way. The more victims they make as a result of their schemes, the more Israël will get the blame.
For Hezbollah en Hamas it is therefore a good strategy to put as many children, civilian and journalists in mortal danger. Great publicity!
When will the Palestinian and the Lebanese peoples find out that they are being used in dirty political schemes?