Lebanese website blames Hizbullah for Qana deaths
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original article in French:
www.libanoscopie.com/FullDoc.asp?DocCode=994&Cat=2

Anti-Syrian elements in Lebanon openly point finger at Hizbullah as
guilty of killing of dozens of civilians in order to curtail plans
for disarming group. 'Hizbullah has placed rocket launcher on
building's roof and brought invalid children inside in bid to provoke
Israeli response,' they write Roee Nahmias YNET 1 August 2006

Is Hizbullah behind the tragic incident in the village of Qana that
claimed the lives of some 60 people? While the Israeli army continues
to investigate the circumstances leading to the building's collapse,
some in Lebanon do not hesitate to point the finger at the Shiite
organization and claim it is to blame for the death of dozens.

The Lebanese website LIBANOSCOPIE , associated with Christian
elements in the country and which openly supports the anti-Syrian
movement called the "March 14 Forces," reported that Hizbullah has
masterminded a plan that would result in the killing of innocents in
the Qana village, in a bid to foil Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad
Siniora's "Seven Points Plan", which calls for deployment of the
Lebanese army in southern Lebanon and the disarming of Hizbullah.

'Disabled children placed inside building'

"We have it from a credible source that Hizbullah, alarmed by
Siniora's plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the
negotiations.

Knowing full well that Israel will not hesitate to bombard civilian
targets, Hizbullah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in
Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a
response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to
take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the negotiation
initiative," the site stated.

The site's editors also claimed that not only did Hizbullah stage the
event, but that it also chose Qana for a specific reason: "They used
Qana because the village had already turned into a symbol for
massacring innocent civilians, and so they set up 'Qana 2'." Notably,
the incident has indeed been dubbed "The second Qana massacre" by the
Arab media.
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Assad tells Syrian army to step up state of readiness and takes two
further provocative steps

DEBKA  http://www.debka.com/
August 1, 2006, 1:05 AM (GMT+02:00)

Syrian military intelligence agents detonated a bomb at the Golan
border fence near Kuneitra, though causing no casualties, and the
Syrian president put defense minister Gen. Hassan Turkemeni in charge
of military assistance to Hizballah. He also instructed chief of
staff Gen. Ali Habib to personally oversee Syrian-Iranian cooperation
for military consignments to Hizballah.

In his order of the day to the Syrian army, Bashar Assad wrote: "I
call on all units, divisions, brigades and battalions to redouble
their training efforts and maintain a high state of readiness.
Remember that every drop of sweat you invest in training will save a
drop of blood when the time comes."

He added: "Threats from the 'masters of the world' (US and Israel)
telling us to beware will not divert us from our path."

DEBKAfile's Middle East sources add: For three weeks, Assad has been
working up to provoking a limited war engagement with Israel.

1. A close crony, Syrian lawmaker Marwan Habash is advocating the
creation of a resistance (terrorist) movement on the Golan Heights -
likewise the prominent cleric, Sheikh Asad Kopertou.

2. For the first time in three decades the presidential palace
allowed Syrian Druze leaders to openly speak out in favor of an armed
campaign to recapture the Golan Heights.

Israeli intelligence leaders are not of one mind about what these
steps signify. Some diagnose posturing by Damascus to get in on the
Lebanon act while not taking the chance of a missile war with Israel;
others argue that the Syrian president must be angling for a limited
military confrontation, otherwise he would not so blatantly parade
his backing for the Hizballah.