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Qana - 1996: UN Investigation PDF Skriv ut E-post
Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff   
mandag 18. oktober 2004

``Anything within 600 meters is dangerous because there is always a chance the shells could fall short,'' an Army official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said targeting shells to strike within fewer than 400 yards is very close firing.''

The United Nations conducted its own investigation. Major General Franklin van Kappen, Former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's top military advisor, submitted a six page report that was highly critical of the IDF:

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Qana - 1996: What they said PDF Skriv ut E-post
Skrevet av Norwegian UNIFIL staff   
mandag 18. oktober 2004

PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON, RAFIC AL HARIRI:
``Now Mr. Peres admits he cannot continue his war and is seeking a political solution, I have always said this problem can never be solved by military action. It has to be solved by political efforts. We will do our best to assure a cease fire.''

PRESIDENT OF LEBANON, ELIAS HRAOUI:
"How could the Israeli people, once the victims of Auschwitz, Treblinka and others, accept that its State massacre more than a hundred men, women and children who were all innocent civilians in Qana that was once visited by Christ and was a scene of His miracles?" he said. "What do you want Lebanon to become? Do you want it to be the sight of mass graves for the world to visit? Would Lebanon say to this world "This is what you did with your own hands. Weren't the mass graves of Jews a testimony to the crimes committed by the Nazis 60 years ago?"

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The Killing of 'Mr Lebanon' PDF Skriv ut E-post
Skrevet av Robert Fisk   
onsdag 16. februar 2005


  Rafik Hariri
 The Killing of 'Mr Lebanon'
Rafik Hariri assassinated in Beirut bomb blast 

By Robert Fisk in Beirut

02/14/05 "The Independent" - - 

I saw the blast wave coming down the Corniche. My home is only a few hundred metres from the detonation and my first instinct was to look up, to search for the high-altitude Israeli planes that regularly break the sound barrier over Beirut. There were customers coming bloodied from their broken-windowed restaurants and the great cancerous stain of smoke rising from the road outside the St George Hotel.
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