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Israeli Kadima (ex-Likud) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert joins Ariel Sharon in annals of Israeli leaders who committed war crimes in Lebanon.
EXCLUSIVE TO WMR.Our intelligence sources in Lebanon have
reported to us exclusively that Israel is now using poison gas and depleted
uranium shells on towns in the south of Lebanon. Residents of the small village
of Kasarshoba became violently ill, experiencing severe vomiting, after the
Israelis hit the village with poison gas. In other cases, underground shelters
in southern Lebanon were hit by Israeli depleted uranium shells. Our sources
also report that the entire southern suburbs of southern Beirut, with a population
of 800,000, have been totally depopulated. Israel has targeted thousands of
civilian homes for destruction.
Meanwhile, Israeli government spokespersons and Bush administration officials
took to the Sunday morning talking head programs in Washington to defend Israel's
barbarous actions. The networks failed to present the views of Lebanese government
spokespersons. Israel's and the Bush administration's line is that Israeli attacks
are "precision targeted." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly
refused to criticize Israel on ABC's This Week.
American media is failing to report that the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza,
like the U.S. attacks in Iraq, are violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention
and Additional Protocols governing military attacks on civilians by governments
that are parties to the conventions:
Civilians are not to be subject to attack. This includes direct attacks on
civilians and indiscriminate attacks against areas in which civilians are present.
There is to be no destruction of property unless justified by military necessity.
Warring parties must not use or develop biological or chemical weapons
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Wayne Madsen Report
Wayne Madsen
Team coverage of the attacks on Lebanon brought to you
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EXCLUSIVE TO WMR. Our U.S. intelligence sources in Lebanon
have exclusively reported to us the extent of Israel's Blitzkrieg attack on
Lebanon, which has destroyed most of the country's critical infrastructures.
Beirut International Airport's newly-restored terminal, where many passengers,
including Americans, were stranded after the Israelis carpet bombed the runway
during flight operations, was bombed in the latest Israeli attack. Israel has
turned Lebanon into another Iraq -- there is no electricity and airports, roads,
and bridges have been knocked out across the country. Israel has even bombed
small ports preventing civilians from escaping to Cyprus. CNN and other Israeli
lobby-influenced broadcasters are understating the number of civilian casualties
in the repeated Israeli attacks. CNN's Washington bureau is editorially controlled
by Wolf Blitzer, a one time employee of the Jerusalem Post and American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). According to our U.S. intelligence sources,
the numbers of dead are in the hundreds. In south Lebanon, Israeli planes bombed
three vans carrying families after they were turned away from a UN outpost while
seeking protection. A total of 23 people were killed, including nine small children.
The Israeli attacks have been described by various sources in Lebanon as "sub-human,"
"monstrous," and "animalistic." Our intelligence sources
phoned us before what they believe will be the targets of attacks in the next
wave of Israeli attacks -- the nation's telecommunications networks, including
cell phone towers and exchanges.
Israel systematically turning Beirut and the rest of Lebanon into another Iraq.
The Israel regime is acting with the full approval of the Bush administration,
both regimes that are totally beholden to neo-con interests intent on throwing
the entire Middle East into a firestorm of destruction and death.