Satellite picture of Beirut bombing (before & after)

[underpants]

These two satellite images provided by GeoEye show the same area of Beirut, Lebanon before and after Israeli bombardment. The image on the left was taken Wednesday July 12, 2006, and the image on the right was taken Monday July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060803/481/0d4bf4975624426492174d021ada116f

[mogster]

1. Large

[underpants]

3. I duped an earlier thread. Ooops

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1811927&mesg_id=1817176

[WilliamPitt]

5. How DARE you dupe my thread??!!

:P

[mom cat]

9. Looks like different shots.

[pooja]

12. slightly differing angles, but it is the same grid...

does anyone notice...people/ no people. That is a large section... look at the intersecting roads (they are major intersections.)

[mom cat]

15. It is just devistating! I am ashamed that the US it facillitating this

destruction of another country.

[underpants]

11. Godzilla

I am stepping all over everythign this morning.

:spank: sorry.

Okay maybe the Godzilla analogy was not the best choice on this thread but hey I am trying to coin a new phrase here.

[Hugin]

7. I was waiting for the official 'underpants' thread.

:thumbsup:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. For reference....

The rectangular area enclosed by the large streets is about .6 miles long by .3 miles wide.

[leveymg]

8. I count 600 buildings completely destroyed in that rectangle

That's around six thousand people. Maybe more. What happened to them?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

16. Most of them are probably refugees, somewhere... n/t

[leveymg]

17. Refugee camps make great guerilla recruiting centers

If you really have Israel's interests at heart, you shouldn't wish for more Lebanese refugees.

[zanne]

2. Thanks for that, underpants

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Sadly, the northern "suburbs" are going to look like that soon...

Israel's now bombing the Christian areas in northern Beirut. :(

[leveymg]

10. Guess the IDF wants Hezballah to widen its recruitment base.

That'll be the effect of this.

[chimpymustgo]

13. Ethnic cleansing folks. Like Shrub clearing brush.

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One hope the Israeli hawks appear to entertain is that they can permanently depopulate strips Lebanon south of the Litani river. Since most Shiites vote Hizbullah and offer political support and cover to it, fewer people means fewer assets for the party-militia. This project would require the total destruction of large numbers of villages and the permanent displacement of their inhabitants north to Beirut.

That is why the massacre at Qana occurred. The Israelis had bombed Qana 80 times. They were destroying all of its buildings. Therefore, of course, they destroyed the building where dozens of children and families were hiding. This tactic is both collective punishment and ethnic cleansing all at once. It is not only a matter, as the Israelis claim, of hitting Hizbullah rocket launchers. They are destroying all of the buildings.

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http://www.juancole.com /

[Cooley Hurd]

14. It's a head-scratcher...

The Israeli govt has said that they hope that ultimately the Lebanese Army can occupy southern Lebanon with a multinational peacekeeping force, but bombing non-Hezbollah targets doesn't exactly INSPIRE the Lebanese army to help the IDF in any way.