8/4/2006
Qana propaganda
I’ve talked about this on WAR Radio, but haven’t had much of an opportunity to post about it here. Since I have more time in the next few days, I’m posting some thoughts, and observations from the blogosphere. Hold onto your hats, ane please note that this is very disturbing, but clearly demonstrates Hezbollah’s propaganda and the value terrorists place on it to sway public opinion and sympathy in their direction.
Today I was reading an article in the Atlantic by James Fallows called “Declaring Victory” where he talks about certain terminology that journalists, bloggers, pundits and people in general are using when we talk about ‘jihadis’.
With the advice of Islamic scholars and think-tank officials, Guirard has assembled an alternative lexicon he thinks U.S. officials should use in both English and Arabic. These include hirabah (”unholy war”), instead of jihad; irhabists (”terrorists”) instead of jihadists; mufsidoon (”evildoers”) instead of mujhahideen; and so on. The long-term effect, he says, would be like labeling certain kinds of battle genocide or war crimes rather than plain combat - not decisive, but useful.
I remember that Steven Vincent talked about how we should call things by their real names.
So let’s see what it sounds like if I adopt that terminology throughout this piece on Qana.
The Confederate Yankee draws some excellent conclusions on several of the photographs here. These two examples were the clearest depictions for me that the outrage is merely political theatre and the pictures were staged by the mufsidoon (”evildoers”).
This unusual picture hit the wires just one hour (9:06 AM) after the building collapse. Look at the raised arms and legs of the different ‘victims’. It is clear that the individual working for the Lebanese Red is sitting here with bodies with significant rigor mortis.
And to further illustrate the point, rigor mortis is described here for you from Wikipedia:
Assuming mild temperatures, rigour usually sets in about 3-4 hours after clinical death, with full rigour being in effect at about 12 hours, and eventually subsiding to relaxation at about 36 hours.
About.com puts the timing of maximum stiffness at about 12-24 hours after death. These people were supposed to have died with one hour of these photos being taken, but the photo is telling a different story.
This is a great example of why this is, in fact, a(n) hirabah (”unholy war”). These people don’t tell the truth; they believe ‘war is deception’, and they LIVE INTO THAT. Just like Saddam Hussein, and Baghdad Bob, they go to great lengths to pull off the deception.
I had never heard what Heidi at Euphoric Reality observed in her piece “The Parade of Dead Children” about this. I read it, re-read it and clicked on her link. It is apparently di rigeur for these vicious mufsidoon (”evildoers”) to do things as despicable as REFRIGERATE THE BODIES OF DEAD BABIES in order to prepare for a propaganda campaign. Hideous, but true.
But that is off point.
Here is the other photograph that clearly demonstrated for me that the stories they were telling were not the truth. This one is supposed to be at the morgue, or on the way to the morgue. This child was supposed to have been removed from the rubble of a building which had collapsed within a few hours before. We’re supposed to believe that mere hours after it was bombed, with people still sleeping inside (???), the building mysteriously ‘collapsed’ on ‘innocent’ victims like this little guy here. But…this victim (as the Confederate Yankee observed), displays no evidence of what you’d expect from being crushed underneath fallen rubble in a building collapse. No signs of dust in the hair, or clothes, and notice the peculiar discoloration of the skin on the lower face and arm. That isn’t shadow, that is the natural affect of decomposition, several days after death. The rescuers, like in the other photographs, are clean, no dust, no even dust on the gloves, no dust on the clothes.
These propaganda pumping irhabists (”terrorists”) aren’t giving people much credit for intelligence.
See here.more of these horrible photographs here, and the accompanying plausible explanations by the Confederate Yankee. I’ve had enough of looking at those poor children wondering how they really died, for one day.
Kim Priestap concludes much the same at Wizbang, quoting Dan Riehl, who talks about another Qana incident from a few days ago, involving an ambulance.
The story goes that the Israeli’s struck two ambulances, injuring nine people, severing one man’s leg. There’s only one problem; it looks as though it isn’t true.
More evidence of the irhabists (”terrorists”) waging their hirabah (”unholy war”) against what they term to be the ‘unbelievers’. Takeyya!
Hot Air
Dingellbats * Peck
Qana and Osama * Qana ‘96
UNIFIL Photos of Qana ‘96
IDF investigates * JPost
LGF: AP rewards Qana photogs
EU Referendum on photogs
Richard Engel looks for the men
Update: And now it appears from this post at Dan Riehl’s (tip o’ me tam to the Confederate Yankee again) something else is suspicious beyond that which we’ve already covered. Before the media arrived at daybreak, refrigerated trucks arrived from Tyre. In the days leading up to the Israeli attack on Qana, a man by the name of Abu Shadi, a mortician from the hospital in Tyre, had been driving refrigerated trucks packed with dead bodies. The man known now in the sphere as “Green Helmet” who was holding that dead toddler high in the air for photogs by the neck, is a man named Abu Shadi.
There are more questions to be asked, but they probably should go in another post. Dan Riehl asks important questions about two more photographs.
Two more things should be noted about the discoloration of the bodies; one is–that the lividity on the child above could have something to do with the body having been refrigerated. And the other is–what I’ve noticed as a discoloration close to GREEN which indicates the body has been a corpse for quite some time; considerably longer than 2 hours.
August 5th, 2006 at 12:59 am
you must love war. dont you?
Instead of looking at the horror of a dead child and showing compassion for an INNOCENT victim and expressing outrage for the events that led to the childs death you wax on about something you know nothing about and have no evidence of.
Did you go to medical school?
Do you have a degree in Forensics?
You are a very evil and hateful person.
August 5th, 2006 at 9:15 am
I hate evil, plain and simple. I hate irhabists (”terrorists”) waging their hirabah (”unholy war”)
I hate mufsidoon (”evildoers”).
You don’t need a degree in forensics to see or point out that the individuals supposedly ‘digging the bodies out of the rubble’ didn’t have any dirt or dust on them. You don’t need a degree in forensics to notice that the distorted poses of those bodies indicate clearly that they are in advanced stages of rigor mortis, when supposedly the bodies were only a few hours dead.
Go bother the other people blogging on this, please. You’re in denial, and I feel sorry for you. As I’ve noticed so many times before, facts never bother leftists.
REVOLUTION IS AUTHORITARIAN
Moral People Need to Learn How to Hate, and that leaves you out of the conversation, as I don’t think of you as a ‘moral’ person who would oppose evil; pacifists choose ‘peace’ over ‘goodness.
Dennis Prager makes an important point here about what the peacenicks like you are doing. What I don’t understand is why don’t you care? Or realize it? Or admit it?
Read it all.
Tim o’ me tam to Boker TOV -Boulder!
Thank God for Moral Violence!
We need to get back to despising and hating evil…moral people need to learn how to hate, and Israel’s quick and swift response to terrorism works; we should learn that lesson!
Oops, I think this is going to turn into a post. Thanks, Howard.
August 6th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Personally,I think we need to start granting the Eason Jordan’s of the world their wish,since they have decided to insert themselves on the side of the enemy.if you do that you should pay a serious price for your actions.The left shouled know up front that if anything bad happens to our country again,they should be prime targets of assasination and criminality,from the top.Israel is doing the right thing,and not listening to a bunch of socialists failures telling them how to defend themselves against enemy attacks,because they already know that everybody is against them just about.But,I do believe that since the media has been giving aid and comfort to our enemies,they should pay and pay dearly for such deplorable and rotten actions.:mad::evil:
August 18th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
The Israeli rockets are very precise targeting the Hezbollah launchers. The Israeli rockets hit the Hezbollah launchers in Quan around mid-night or 1:00 a.m.
Yet, the buliding did not collapse until around 8:00 a.m. or so. Go figure! Hezbollah blew it up!
We feel that Hezbollah also killed the women and children.
August 19th, 2006 at 11:35 am