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8/29 Michelle Malkin summarizes the fake ambulance stories from Hizbullah
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/ambulances-for-jihad
More detail at:
http://zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance
\_ Oh now there's a source I trust.
\_ How about the clip she shows of Anderson Cooper who talks about
Hizbullah faking ambulance shots?
\_ How about the clip Malkin shows of Anderson Cooper who talks
about Hizbullah faking ambulance shots? And zombietime has a
history of good photography analysis.
\_ Zombietime, like many highly partisan websites on both
sides of the issues, has a history of taking one photo
out of thousands, the one photo that can be used to
say what he wants to say, and using that one photo
to paint an entire issue with a broad brush. If that's
what you consider analysis these days then analysis is
dead. And Malkin is just a raving loon.
\_ I thought it was pretty convincing: bombed out
bus not very damaged on the inside, RUST in
the bullet holes, super healing ambulance driver,
etc. -- the story didn't rely on just 1 image.
\_ You don't like Malkin? Is that an Anne Coulter
thing where everyone is going to post pictures of
her looking bad as proof she's stupid?
\_ Nah, they'll just post links to her frothing and
call it a day. |
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| hotair.com/archives/2006/08/29/ambulances-for-jihad Digg this Blowback Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from our readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler Blog Archive Wut She Sed (UPDATED) Comments The secret Rust Inducing Hellfire Missile. Rich on August 29, 2006 at 9:05 AM The MSM likes to position themselves as above political considerations, but can there really be any doubt of whose side they're on? For any given issue, they choose which side they're on, which story to believe, then gather the facts' and present the news' to bolster that position, not wanting to be bothered with the real world. dalewalt on August 29, 2006 at 9:11 AM Not only is it time to cut-off support of terrorism by ambulance, but also time to cut-off support of the UN We should excuse ourselves from it. And tell them to go find another host country (parasites, that they are). Melba Toast on August 29, 2006 at 9:20 AM Another truly excellent Vent. My mailbox should be full of automated "thank you for your letter/interest/concern" responses by suppertime. A frustrating exercise, but absolutely necessary to be sure. IrishEi on August 29, 2006 at 9:25 AM Has anyone seen any retractions to the Qana Ambulance story? Pablo on August 29, 2006 at 9:47 AM The number of stories blowing holes in MSM reporting is building into a tidal wave of doubt. A profit and reliability focused business would sack its supliers if the goods being brought in for sale were this badly made. erix138 on August 29, 2006 at 9:52 AM "media dupes" Are they really duped, or complicit? Lawrence on August 29, 2006 at 10:23 AM Really great expose on the ambulance/UN connection to mid-east terror activities. This is the kind of reporting that wins awards for local television investigative crews. I wonder if the Vent format would be eligible to compete. MRegine on August 29, 2006 at 10:24 AM I'm not sure that it's so much complicity, they just don't WANT to get to the bottom of things, if someone brings in a photo shoot/report/etc that supports their already-formed views they just run with that... Magen David Adom A picture is worth a thousand words, follow the link. heroyalwhyness on August 29, 2006 at 10:50 AM Great Vent, Michelle. Plese keep up the good work exposing these lies that the MSM just swallows whole. I especially appreciated the older stories and footage for context. mikeyboss on August 29, 2006 at 11:54 AM Bravo Michelle! Where else will we get this type of reporting on MSM complicity with the Islamofacist? The Islamofacist does not care about using innocents, including women and children, to their advantage. They condem such tactics but use them on a regular basis. This vent proves a point many here have recognized for some time - the Islamofacist does not care about truth and sees no problem in lying about anything to the infidel. Thank you Michelle for vents of great importance, clearly presented, prepared with flawless logic that we cannot seem to get elsewhere. omegaram on August 29, 2006 at 12:24 PM First-rate work, Michelle! The enemy's decidedly non-humanitarian use of ambulances puts to the test the motto of the British SAS: "Who Dares, Wins." We have an enemy who in their chutzpah use ambulances as transports for munitions and armed combatants; and in a related context who use mosques, hospitals, schools and private homes as barracks, munitions depots and as cover for staging and launching attacks. In all this activity they contemptuously thumb their noses at "Western"-style sensibilities; yet they also expect to play upon those same sensibilities by faking "missile damage" to those same ambulances - and to then frame the Israelis for it. The enemy indulges in such brazen behavior because they've learned from experience that our own media will at best ignore it, or will at worst - in their own agenda-driven desire to "shape" reality instead of merely "reporting" it - become willing participants in the propaganda. In short, the enemy "dares" because they're convinced that in so doing they'll "win." They're convinced from observation and practice that "The liberal journalist fancies himself so open-minded' that he won't take his own side in a fight." And but for Michelle, Charles Johnson and a handful of other dogged bloggers, there's precious little to contradict the that belief. just wait until the enemy and their willing, useful idiots in the western media become sophisticated enough to master digital imagery and stagecrafting to the point where it'll be difficult if not impossible to tell when they're doing it. Then they'll be able to so confuse the Western public as to what's real and not real, what's up and what's down, who's wearing the black hats vs. the white hats, that our ability to muster our own public opinion in defense of our own way of life will be so corroded that our very will to survive as a society and as a culture will be in open question. I mean, we've already got what, about a third of our own population thinking our own government was behind 9/11? Spurius Ligustinus on August 29, 2006 at 1:07 PM Cross the Red Cross off your philanthropic list. Salvation Army hasn't gone terrorist-lubbin yet, have they? Doug on August 29, 2006 at 1:28 PM I seem to remember someone on TV emphasizing the distinction between the American and the International Red Cross. The point, as I recall, was not to avoid giving to the American RC because one disapproved of the ICRC. mikeyboss on August 29, 2006 at 1:55 PM Ditto all the kind things everyone here has said about your Vent, Michelle. I am so thoroughly disgusted with so-called journalism today, and the laziness those boneheads dish out daily. Maybe if we were to take out ads in various markets to call out such complicit news organizations (and the politicians who are swayed by them)... itzWicks on August 29, 2006 at 1:59 PM Spurius- precisely why I think Bush should start going after the media that perpetrates BS in hopes of altering the outcomes of elections, wars, and general US ideals using RICO statutes. They already hate him and will try to impeach him, so why not? NTWR on August 29, 2006 at 2:24 PM Couldn't of said it better myself NTWR! The MSM want only to spread their particular take on things. If it even slightly deviates from their considered opinion, it doesnt exist. Thank goodness for the HotAir crew and MM for begetting it! labwrs on August 29, 2006 at 2:32 PM OOPS Commented under the wrong article! Is the rate at which parts rust not consistent given the same temperature and humidity? I mean given the same atmospheric conditions and length of exposure, would not all contiguous parts made of like material rust at the same rate? If so, then why is the exposed metal around the "entrance" hole not rusted? |
| zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance -> www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/ The Red Cross Ambulance Incident How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War + Introduction + What Supposedly Happened: The Media Accuses Israel of War Crimes + The Ambulance With a Hole in Its Roof: Dismantling the Evidence + Possible Rebuttals and Explanations of the Apparent Fraud + Conclusion: How a Hoax Became News + Introduction On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel. Of all the exposs and scandals surrounding the media's coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon, The Red Cross Ambulance Incident stands out as the most serious. The other exposs were spectacular in their simplicity (photographers staging scenes, clumsy attempts at Photoshopping images), but often concerned fairly trivial details. What does it matter whether there was a big cloud of smoke over Beirut, or a really big cloud of smoke, as one notorious doctored photograph showed? The fact that the media was lying was indeed extremely important, and justified the publicity surrounding the exposs -- but what they were lying about was often minor, a slight fudging of the visuals to exaggerate the damage. The ambulance incident, however, was anything but trivial. The media accused Israel of the most heinous type of war crime: intentionally targeting neutral ambulances which were attempting to rescue innocent victims. If true -- and it is almost universally accepted as true -- then Israel would lose any claim to moral superiority in the conflict. The commanders who ordered the strike should be brought up on war-crimes charges. As it is, the worldwide outcry over Israel's purported malfeasances grew so strident that the country was pressured into a ceasefire. The media's depictions of Israel's actions so influenced public opinion that Israel felt compelled to end the fighting right at the moment it was starting to gain the upper hand. The Red Cross Ambulance Incident was perhaps the most damning of all the evidence against Israel, and the most morally indefensible. Other incidents were open to debate: in those cases where Israel bombed buildings that turned out to have civilians inside, Israel claimed either that it didn't know the building was occupied, or that it was trying to hit a Hezbollah stronghold elsewhere in the same building; But targeting clearly marked ambulances, and hitting them directly -- there's no possible excuse for that. So this specific incident contributed to the outrage over the war, eventually causing Israel to stand down. Which makes it all the more shocking to learn that the attack on the ambulances most likely never occurred, and that the "evidence" supporting the claim is in fact a hoax. First, let's review exactly what is supposed to have happened, by looking at the media's coverage of the incident; next, we will examine how the evidence does not hold up under close examination. But even if you think you already know the whole story, it might be worthwhile to see just exactly how the story unfolded, chronologically from the very beginning, and how it acquired new details with every retelling. According to Lebanese Red Cross reports, two of its ambulances were struck by munitions, although both vehicles were clearly marked by the red cross emblem and flashing lights that were visible at a great distance. The incident happened while first-aid workers were transferring wounded patients from one ambulance to another. As a result, nine people including six Red Cross volunteers were wounded. Notice how this initial description is fairly neutral: no mention of who fired the munitions, or what type they were, or the extent of the damage. Associated Press The story went global when Kathy Gannon of the Associated Press included a description of the incident in a human interest story filed just a few hours later. The AP version of the incident is much more elaborate than the initial report. the Lebanese Red Cross suspended operations outside Tyre after Israeli jets blasted two ambulances with rockets, said Ali Deebe, a Red Cross spokesman in Tyre. In the incident Sunday, one Red Cross ambulance went south of Tyre to meet an ambulance and transfer the wounded to the hospital. "When we have wounded outside the city, we always used two ambulances," Deebe said. The rocket attack on the two vehicles wounded six ambulance workers and three civilians - an 11-year-old boy, an elderly woman and a man, Deebe said. "One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was painted on top of the ambulance," he said. "This is a clear violation of humanitarian law, of international law. Kassem Shalan, one of the ambulance workers, told AP Television News that nine people were injured. "We were transferring the wounded into our vehicle and something fell and I dropped to the floor," he said. Amateur video provided by an ambulance worker confirmed Deebe's account of damage to the vehicles, showing one large hole and several smaller ones in the roof of one ambulance and a large hole in the roof of the second. ITV News That evening, Britain's ITV News ran a breathless report about the attack, accusing Israel of serious war crimes. Significantly, however, the ITV report states that journalists did not see the ambulances themselves, and instead shows a film taken by a "local amateur cameraman." It's important to watch this entire video if you can, because it not only contains the fullest account of the incident -- with scenes of injured ambulance drivers, and videos of the ambulances -- but it conveys the typical inflammatory tone of the media coverage of this conflict. Lebanese ambulance men, shocked and bleeding, brought in as casualties to a hospital in Tyre. They were hurt when Israeli aircraft rocketed two ambulance crews. On the face of it, it is difficult to understand just how the Israeli military could possibly have mistaken two clearly marked ambulances for a legitimate military target. ITV host: Well we've seen it there, haven't we, Captain Delall? This can't go on, this indiscriminate slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Captain Delall: "We have nothing against the Lebanese civilians. We never intentionally target civilians, and certainly not ambulances or aid workers. ITV host: Excuse me, but with the greatest respect, we're talking about the Israeli army. Do you accept that hitting a Red Cross ambulance and a convoy of civilians fleeing are acts that are flagrant breaches of the rules of war? Captain Delall: We never intentionally target civilians or ambulances. I would say that those ambulances were strafed from the air by helicopter fire. The UN tells ITV News that Israel is breaking the rules of war. Julian Manyon: The air attack on two Red Cross ambulances has increased the controversy surrounding the Israeli assault on Lebanon. It's noticeable that one burst of fire struck the exact center of the cross on the roof of one of the ambulances. Because of the extreme dangers of the roads, journalists have not visited the scene. ITV host: Israel's enemies are saying attacks like that one are tantamount to war crimes. Time magazine The following day, Time was the first American publication to print a full account, with even more details not yet reported anywhere else: "But on Sunday night, the emblem of the Red Cross was not enough to deter an Israeli helicopter gunship from firing missiles into a pair of ambulances loading casualties in the village of Qana" ... "As Shaalan closed the back of the ambulance, however, a missile punched through the roof of the vehicle and exploded inside. "There was a boom, a big fire and I was thrown backwards. "The father's leg was severed by the exploding missile." "There ... |