| Hezbos Use Drive-By Media To Push Their Propaganda |
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| July 27, 2006 |
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RUSH: Apparently Fox News just received an e-mail from one of the UN peacekeepers killed. Obviously the e-mail was received before he died or sent before he died. And he admitted -- they're just reading portions of it now, I was just watching it as the is program resumed. Apparently this guy, the Canadian peacekeeper part of the UN mission there, was saying they were not deliberately targeted, and the Hezbos were putting themselves in close proximity. It pretty much buttresses everything that's been said since, that the Hezbos were nearby, on purpose, hoping to use the UN outpost as a shield, and it didn't work.
In addition to that, CBC Radio, retired Canadian Major General Louis McKenzie was interviewed. He had some very interesting news about the UN observer post that was hit by Israeli shells. The Canadian peacekeeper killed there had previously e-mailed McKenzie telling him that Hezbollah was using their post as cover. An excerpt of the interview. "We received e-mails from him, the Canadian member of the UN force a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within. In one case three meters of his position for tactical necessity not being targeted. Now, that's veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was that the Hezbos were all over his position, and that the Israeli defense forces were targeting them, and that's a favorite trick by people who don't have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can't be punished for it." There's ongoing controversy about this, as you know, but the truth is leaking out there, that this was a stunt that the Hezbos pulled. And the real question remains, when discussing this, why were they there in the first place in the middle of a war zone?
 In fact, "The prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, says that Israel's deadly attack on a UN observation post in Lebanon which claimed the life of a Canadian soldier was a terrible tragedy, and he doubts whether the bombing was deliberate. The prime minister also said he wants to know why the post was still manned, even though it was in the middle of an obvious war zone." Well, it's a damn good question. Now, getting the truth out is getting tougher and tougher. Let's go to audio sound bite number two. We have last night on MSNBC, the Tucker Carlson program. He's dropped the bow tie, tired of being Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. So he's now just back to Tucker, talking with NBC's Richard Engel. Tucker says, "Richard, looking at these really dramatic pictures you sent back, it raises the obvious question. You are an American reporter from an American news network in a city that's been bombed by American war planes used by Israel but many people here blame America. Did you feel threatened at all by the crowd being in the close proximity and company of the Hezbos?"
CARLSON: When the crowd started to get very excited and we were surrounded by people screaming at us and cheering Hezbollah, we decided that was the time to leave. But in general, the Hezbollah and the people here have been very friendly to us. They are desperate to get their message out.
RUSH: Yeah, I wonder why. |
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CARLSON: -- Israel is not only fighting Hezbollah but is using a very -- using very heavy-handed tactics and saying that entire villages along the border of Israel are being depopulated. So at this stage Hezbollah still feels quite confident that it has a -- a story to tell, and I would assume they feel they can use us to try and get that message out.
RUSH: You would assume? You've just admitted it on the Tucker show, just admitted it. So they're carrying some propaganda for the Hezbos. Here's Tucker, who was I guess live from Lebanon himself. He's on there with Chris Matthews last night.
CARLSON: Hezbollah is, at least in person, we were not able to take photographs still or moving of the Hezbollah leaders who were there, but they were amazingly western looking. I expected long beards of the kind I've seen throughout the Middle East. These people looked very western, baseball hats, western shoes, a lot of them have English, not at all what I expected.
RUSH: Wonder why that is? Why is Hassan Nasrallah driving around in Damascus today in a Mercedes in civilian clothes? Do you think it might be part of an effort to disguise themselves, to make it look like civilians so they don't get hit? My gosh, I continue to marvel at the -- at the -- what is this? It's not stupidity? Well, say stupidity. The blockheadedness or what have you. Now, we go to the CNN last night, Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf is talking to that famous reporter Nic Robertson who admitted that the Hezbos were steering him around and pointing things out in his first tour into Beirut and that they wouldn't let him go in buildings, but the Hezbos were saying who was in there and Robertson later admitted, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should have issued a disclaimer. It was a guided tour sponsored by the Hezbos." So he's back and Wolf says, "Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbos, we saw him yesterday appeared on al-Manar, Hezbo television in Lebanon. A lot of analysts thought he looked exhausted, he looked drained. Body language, Wolf, noticing body language; does this mean that he's defeated? Is there a sense there that these guys, these Hezbo leaders may be on the ropes right now, Nic, certainly running for their lives?"
 ROBERTSON: I mean, he would -- and his supporters would see his death as martyrdom and something to be proud of. I think actually what a lot of people here really see is that Hezbollah is able to inflict casualties upon Israel that no other army, Arab army has been able to do. And I think for the people here, at least Hezbollah's hard-line supporters, that's something to be proud of. I think that's the perception that we get from people here. I think they do recognize their leadership's in a hard place right now, but certainly I don't think we get the sense that people here assess they're on the ropes.
RUSH: Okay, so I guess can't read the body language, can't trust the body language. Bush is on the ropes, Bush is defeated according to Howard Fineman, and Wolf and the boys think Nasrallah looks defeated and on the ropes and so forth. But Nic Robertson assured, "No, couldn't be further from the truth, why, these guys are doing more damage to Israel than any Arab country ever has. No, no, no, no. They got hard line supporters. That's something to be proud of. That's the perception we get from people here." Nic, what do you think you're going to do, you think you're going to run around Lebanon and find people who want Israel to win? You'll find some but not where you're headed, not where you're going, not where you're spending time, you want to surround yourself with Hezbos, especially the Hezbos that are not wearing the clerical garb, the sheik suits and all that sort of stuff, making themselves look like, you know, innocent civilians. Next thing you know they're going to start wearing blue turbans, little light blue -- (interruption) yeah, light blue turbans, making themselves look like the UN peacekeepers. I wouldn't be a bit surprised, light blue turbans. If I were running the Hezbos, that would have been one of the first things I ordered up. |
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