Sticky Notes

Snapped Shots brought it up and I think he's onto something....

(scroll to the bottom of his page)

He posted the question as to whether the banner used by Hezbollah could be faked (top photo). The exploding helicopter is supposed  to be Israeli.

Below I found what is another similar shot by David Furst, a photographer with many, many photojournalist shots of Israeli soldiers, events, etc. I think they used one of his photos. What you see here in the lower picture is an Israeli medivac - one of Furst's shots. Above, is the Hezbollah banner. The rotor blades are micro-seconds apart in rotation and I am guessing it's another one if Furst's shot that I cannot locate on the web, but it's probably out there. (Furst is not to be assumed AT ALL to making the banner fakery...)

"Middle East analyst Barry Rubin has nothing but disdain for the Western media’s reporting on the region he has spent years studying.  The story in Lebanon was the worst reported story I’ve ever seen.”

• There are so many inaccuracies… A lot of the reporters have no special knowledge
  
• He slammed the western media for accepting uncritically civilian casualty numbers provided by the Lebanese government.
• He slammed the media for under-reporting stories from Israel and for being taken in by concocted events in Lebanon.
• I feel we’ll find the whole Qana [incident] never happened.
• It’s easy to give people money if you printed it yourself,  he quipped, adding that the media could have easily exposed the bogus relief effort had they chosen to.

"Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams announced plans Sunday for his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, including a visit with leaders of Israel's arch-enemies in Hamas.  Adams, whose Irish Republican Army-linked party has grown in recent years to become the major representative of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, said he hoped his visit Tuesday through Thursday would encourage compromise between Israel and Hamas." International Herald Tribune Europe

Hat tip to Snapped Shot 

Related posts here about IRA:  meeting  between "Irish Workers Party leader Sean Garland and North Korean officials and Continuity IRA terrorists have visited Iran and Syria to sell bomb-making secrets to Hezbollah and Al Qaeda.

(Photo: AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)

Remember the reports about the convoy of radioactive materials, on the way to Iran,  that were stopped by the Bulgarians in July.? Now Janes Defence postulates that perhaps they were meant for Hezbollah. 

"As the Bulgarian interception involved radiological rather than nuclear-weapons-related materials, it is possible that non-state actors were the intended beneficiaries. As Hizbullah is the main non-state group with access to an increasingly devastating range of Iranian-supplied weapons and is backed by an intransigent and extremist Iranian president willing to fight a proxy war against Israel, it cannot be ruled out that it would be a possible recipient of non-conventional weapons or the materials to fabricate them.