It's Sky news with their insolence again

The face of Jacob · 08-27-06, 08:06 PM

I was just reading an article in Sky news about Nassralah being regret about the kidnap of the Israeli soldiers.

3 things in that article bothered me:

1. They call him Mr. Nasrallah.
2. They said that Hizbullah killed 3 Israeli soldiers while the truth is that they killed 8 Israeli soldiers.
3. They mention that more than 1000 Lebanese got killed in the Israeli bombings but didn't say even one word about the rockets and the missiles that Hizbullah fired deliberately at Israel and the dozens of Israelis who got killed and the thousands who got injured not mention the fact that the Lebanese were killed because Hizbullah used them as human shields while firing at Israel from populated areas.

Sky news - journalism at its best.
The article

mpg · 08-28-06, 08:39 AM

They said "cities", but they didn't specify Lebanon or Israel. They also said that more than 1000 people died and most of them were Lebanese civilians. This is true.

DeeJayH · 08-28-06, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mpg

They said "cities", but they didn't specify Lebanon or Israel. They also said that more than 1000 people died and most of them were Lebanese civilians. This is true.

this is actually an assumption
we will never know how many of the dead were actually Hezbollah fighters
and while i believe it is a considerable amount, i also beleive that the majority were probably civilians
but if you lay down with dogs......

The face of Jacob · 08-29-06, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeJayH

this is actually an assumption
we will never know how many of the dead were actually Hezbollah fighters

This asrticle is from August 7th, a week before the cease fire. It said that 400 Hizbullah fighters were killed:
"Israel has begun to broadcast in Arabic the names of about 400 Hezbollah fighters it claims to have killed, presumably obtained from identity tags".

I know that there were Hizbullah fighters who got killed in the last week also.

But for the Arabs who watch Al-Jazeera (which is nothing but a spokesman of Hizbullah and all the war didn't broadcast articles of his own but delivered announcements of Hizbullah) then there were no killed Hizbullah fighters at all.