Tuesday, August 01, 2006

The UN Takes Sides in Lebanon

July 28, 2006: The UNIFIL Observer outpost that was “accidentally” targeted by Israeli firepower on July 25th, leaving four UN troops dead, was probably a victim of its own chatter. The unarmed observers, with a clear view of the fighting between Hizbollah and the Israelis, were apparently reporting whatever they saw, with other UNIFIL locations, over unencrypted (”in the clear”) radio frequencies. This chatter could be picked up by Hizbollah. Since the Israelis have control of the air, and use aircraft and UAVs to gain an information advantage over Hizbollah, this UNIFIL chatter was giving the Hizbollah fighters information they would not otherwise have. That was endangering Israeli soldiers. Then again, the UNIFIL post was right in the middle of a battlefield. There was a furious firefight going on around the UNIFIL position, and the Hizbollah gunmen were using the UNIFIL position for cover from Israeli fire (an old Hizbollah tactic.) The Israeli damage to the UN bunker may well have been accidental.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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where you placed a recent comment and would like to cooperate with your blog. My english is far from being perfect and as you also say "i am not an expert in History" but of course i want and can cooperate with you in the Infidel Bloggers Alliance.
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Azazel Trinca-Fortes

Anonymous said...

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I repeat it:
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