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Less than a month has passed since more than 100 Lebanese civilians were slaughtered by an Israeli artillery barrage on a U.N. compound. In that time, the village of Qana has become a shrine to Lebanon's rage and anguish. Photographs of the victims, who include at least 25 children under the age of 12, adorn a cement memorial. Black banners decry Israel's "terrorism" and "barbarity." But did Israel attack the U.N. base deliberately? Lebanese say yes. Israel vehemently says no, it was an accident. Last week the U.N. reported on its own investigation by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros...
...AVIV, Israel: An eight-minute video shot by a U.N. officer shows an Israeli drone aircraft hovering over a U.N. compound when Israeli forces shelled the area April 18. The video is especially embarrassing for Israel, which had denied that the remotely piloted aircraft was in the area. After being confronted with evidence to the contrary, an army spokesman said the plane was on another mission, but Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that U.N. officials are skeptical of Israel's explanation. "They say it is absurd that a drone would be there not looking at the area they were...
...which they had been fired. But in this case, by the time the Israelis had aimed their guns and let fly from less than six miles away, the Shi'ite guerrillas and the Katyusha launcher had gone. Instead the shells slammed down across the area and exploded inside the compound of a battalion of Fijian peacekeepers, where more than 600 refugees had been sheltering for a week, hanging out their laundry on the fences and tethering their livestock nearby...
...devastation was sickening, a carnage of incinerated corpses, body parts and blood. "I couldn't count the bodies," said Swedish U.N. Captain Mikael Lindvall at the compound right after the attack. "There were babies without heads. There were people without arms and legs." No one is sure precisely how many men, women and children died or even who they were, because so many were literally blown to pieces. Even on Saturday, two days after the attack, the number of dead was still climbing...
...arrests came a day after a meeting at the Freemen's compound at which Schweitzer outlined a plan to kidnap local officials. It was captured on a videotape broadcast last week by abc's Prime Time Live. "We're going to have a standing order," said Schweitzer. "Anyone obstructing justice, the order is shoot to kill." The first attempt to arraign the two men at the Billings federal courthouse ended in chaos when they shouted demands for a "change of venue" to their own Justus Township court. Two days later, U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson tried again, but had to enter...