Report: U.N. observers' calls unheeded - Yahoo! News

The UN was not safe in Iraq and they are not safe in Lebanon. Hummmm. There's a connection there somewhere.

NEOCONS!

Report: U.N. observers' calls unheeded - Yahoo! News:

"JERUSALEM - U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

The U.N. observation post near Khiam came under close Israeli fire 21 times Tuesday, including 12 hits within 100 yards and five direct hits from 1:20 p.m. until the peacekeepers' post was destroyed at 7:30 p.m., Jane Lute, assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the U.N. Security Council in New York.

U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.

'We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near U.N. workers and civilians,' U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said. 'That's why it is so inexplicable that what happened happened.'