After Israeli Attack Kills Four, U.N. Pulls Border Observers

With grave concerns that more strikes against its people might occur, the UN has pulled those who observe the border between Lebanon and Israel:

The United Nations has decided to remove 50 unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping force in the area, a spokesman said Friday.

The decision came after one of the posts of the observer force, known as UNTSO, was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike earlier this week, killing four.

"These are unarmed people and this is for their protection," said Milos Struger, a spokesman for UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force whose 2,000 members have light weapons for self-defense.

I can't blame them. But I do blame Israeli military officials who ordered attacks on the facility with the express purpose, I imagine, of getting the U.N. out of there. Israel has done this before and so has the U.S. - it's reprehensible and the deaths were so unnecessary.

And please, no more emails telling me that the Israelis were right because Osama bin Laden and Hezbollah "own" or "run" the U.N. If you want to believe such horse manure, man... you may as well have your brain extracted now because you clearly aren't using it.