Greater Valinor
28-07-2006, 18:38
The UN finally came to their senses and pulled the observers out of the border and put them in with peacekeepers in the region. Took them long enough to get their guys out of the middle of a warzone.
Linkage:http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153292021843&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The United Nations has decided to remove 50 unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping force in the area, a spokesman said Friday.
The decision came after one of the posts of the observer force, known as UNTSO, was destroyed by an Israeli air strike earlier this week, killing four.
"These are unarmed people and this is for their protection," said Milos Struger, a spokesman for UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force whose 2,000 members have light weapons for self-defense.
UNTSO has about 50 observers in four posts along the border, two of which have already been abandoned - the one that was destroyed at Khiam and a second near the village of Maroun al-Ras, which was abandoned after one of the observers was seriously wounded by Hizbullah gunfire on July 23, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeepers.
PS: New Rocket Iranian Fajr5 Rocket launched by Hizballah lands in Afula.
They call it the Kaiber-1 which is the name of a town in Saudi Arabia where a battle during Mohammeds time took place and the Muslims defeated the Jews...are we allowed to cry anti-semetism now?
Linkage:http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153292021843&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The United Nations has decided to remove 50 unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping force in the area, a spokesman said Friday.
The decision came after one of the posts of the observer force, known as UNTSO, was destroyed by an Israeli air strike earlier this week, killing four.
"These are unarmed people and this is for their protection," said Milos Struger, a spokesman for UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force whose 2,000 members have light weapons for self-defense.
UNTSO has about 50 observers in four posts along the border, two of which have already been abandoned - the one that was destroyed at Khiam and a second near the village of Maroun al-Ras, which was abandoned after one of the observers was seriously wounded by Hizbullah gunfire on July 23, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeepers.
PS: New Rocket Iranian Fajr5 Rocket launched by Hizballah lands in Afula.
They call it the Kaiber-1 which is the name of a town in Saudi Arabia where a battle during Mohammeds time took place and the Muslims defeated the Jews...are we allowed to cry anti-semetism now?