desperate appeal from lebanon 2

Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:56:12 EDT
BAMYEHM@woods.uml.edu

From: MX%"samer@acs.bu.edu"@MRGATE@WOODS
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:44:00 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: email from Beirut (fwd)

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this was written by a young man in Beirut.. read it and pass it on
>> This is the situation:
>>
>> We are ready to evacuate
>> immediately, I think!!! Things here are NOT improving. I do not know
>> how much longer we can communicate - be it thru e-mail or phone. The
>> Israeli's are shelling nothing but civilian targets. They hit not a
>> single Hizbullah target. The sea ports are closed because of Israeli
>> gunboats warding off ships!! They shot three of the power stations,
>> rendering one of them totally nonfunctional. According to the new, one
>> of them has attained damages worth 3 millions USDs. They are also
>> shooting the telephone switchboards. They have gunned one of the main
>> ones, and off and on they have destroyed major telephone cables around
>> the country. I know that at least 18000 phones are out! Things are
>> really NOT optimistic here. Schools have been shut down for at least
>> one more week. I do not know if my uni will open. Please distribute
>> this message please to as many people as you can; it is important that
>> they see the truth.
>>
>>
>> Today..... they attacked a UN center. It was a bomb shelter.
>> They massacred every soul in there - mentally and physically. Hundreds
>> of armless, helpless, hungry people were hiding in two tents. The
>> Israeli's attacked the base. People started fleeing into the shelters,
>> but they did not make it on time. The seen was a giagantic shish kabab
>> scene!!!! Bodies were charcoaled.... I actually saw some guts,
>> intestines, and other gross things..... it was an open anatomy class,
>> for heaven's sake.... my girlfriend burst into tears... so did my
>> mom!!! Who is the attacker here? A m**********r behind a tank or a
>> child who is just looking for food and shelter???? The folks from the
>> south are all packed in schools in Beirut. Things are not sanitary at
>> all. Diseases are beginning to spread! For God's sake who is the
>> aggressor!?!?!? They showed us how the Israelis take a moment of
>> silence for the massacre of the Jews in Germany!!!!!! What is this....
>> some kind of avenge?!?! We have to pay for it??!? Half a million
>> people were forced out of their homes because their presence would
>> threaten the heavily armed army of Israel..... the tanks are
>> vulnerable to an attack from young children!!! Children are
>> lethal...... we should abolish them....eh?????? Man... the situation
>> is not improving. What is the world after... destroying Lebanon's new
>> infrastructure because it could beat Israel's economy in a few
>> years???? Is it after taking away the Arab's arsenal and money?? If
>> Syria were to move, the American Air Force and the Israeli Air Force
>> would take it as an attack and a breach of peace!!!!!!! They take our
>> land.... and call us aggressors. They say that if we stop attacking
>> them with a few guerilla soldiers, they would leave..... is this
>> preposterous or what??? You occupy my house and I ask to leave, but
>> you refuse to because I am hitting you?!??!? Well..... leave my house
>> and I will not attack you. You just ought to see the brains of 3 day
>> old splattered all over the blanket!!! His head lost its top!!!!
>> Literally!!!! The 3-day-old had no top to his head.... his brains
>> were over the blanker and on the floor. They wiped out 2 families of
>> 12 people in one building...... their argument.... Hizbullah fired a
>> Katyusha from that area..... b******t!!!! Since the beginning of the
>> attacks, the Israeli army has hit nothing.... NOTHING... but civilian
>> targets..... An ambulance with 4 children and old folks was hit by a
>> rocket from a plane.... their excuse: The driver was Hizbullah.....
>> now give me a break!!!!!! WE ARE THE KILLERS....WE OWN THE HI-TECH
>> STUFF..... For God's sake, we do not even have an airforce!!!!!!! We
>> have one bloody f***** jet.... just one!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Tomorrow morning I am taking my car to all the near grocery stores
>> to buy as much baby milk as the car can carry and distribute it all to
>> the schools that have lactating children or children in need of milk.
>> Our academic year has been disrupted because the southerners have been
>> placed in schools.
>>
>> If anyone wants the true scenes, please contact me and I will do
>> my best to send a copy.
>>
>> I have two INTERNET addresses:
>>
>> ziad-g@beirut.com
>> aboudi@bignet.com.lb
>>
>>
>> I am now using the aboudi one. Please send your messages to both.
>>
>> Take care.
>> Aboudi

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: samer@acs.bu.edu
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