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Date Posted: 18:50:05 05/29/02 Wed
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In reply to:
The Veeckster
's message, "New York Times Magazine: May 12, 2002" on 05:25:29 05/29/02 Wed
He's taking the word of some Palestinian somewhere.
That's isn't a "report." He's angling a story to suit his agenda. Not to mention the fact, that nowhere is the point of view of the Israeli soldier, who's probably been shot at by shadowy figures for weeks.
I guess if that woman had had a bomb strapped to her waist, then paraded by the guy blowing him up along with his patrol, it would've been OK.
THAT never happens does it? naaahh.
I suppose it just took too much thought to actually question the angle of that journalistic hack job, didn't it?
>MAGAZINE DESK | May 12, 2002, Sunday
>An Impossible Occupation
>
>By Scott Anderson (NYT) 8056 words
>Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 34, Column 1
>LEAD PARAGRAPH - "Through a crack in the drawn curtain
>of his third-floor perch, Yigal Kelman uses the
>magnified scope of his sniper rifle to study the
>Palestinian family that has emerged onto a rooftop
>terrace some 300 yards away.
>
>The family appears harmless enough -- a man in his
>early 40's, two younger women, an old lady with a
>white head scarf -- but the Israel Defense Forces have
>placed the town of Atil, in the West Bank, under a
>blanket curfew: no one allowed outside, and that
>includes on terraces. What makes Kelman especially
>nervous about this particular rooftop is that it
>stands on high ground, and a gunman hidden there would
>have a commanding view over his own position. Stepping
>back from the window, he quietly slips a high-powered,
>hollow-tip bullet into the rifle's firing chamber and
>assumes the sniper's stance: feet apart, weight
>slightly back, a slow, steady exhalation of breath.
>Slowly he pulls the trigger, and the older woman drops
>to the ground."
>
>Happy now Kenny?
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