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Time and time again we are told of the 'surgical precision' of the Israeli air strikes. Yet they always end up killing civilians, in Lebanon whole apartment blocks were destroyed by Israeli planes.
Robert Fisk's interview with Brigadier-General Specter Specter (one of Israels pilots) demonstrates just how 'surgically precise' these attacks are:
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Fisk: Didn't the computer mean that the building that was hit was always the one that the Israelis intended it to hit?
Specter: Its not like that, we use our eyes, we compare our intelligence with what we see on the ground in Beirut. The computer helps us with timing but the computer does not find the target.
Fisk: What does?
Specter: We do.
Fisk: How?
Specter: Well, we have photographs. You see we are given photographs of the target, a building, say. We have to find it.
Fisk: How?
Specter: With our eyes. We fly over and look for it
Fisk: Aren't the photographs locked onto the computer system?
Specter: No. We hold the photographs in our hand. Then we look at the pictures and try to find the buildings on the ground.
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Flying over a highly populated and built up city. Trying to match what they see from above with a 'photograph' they hold in their hand. Hardly 'surgically precise', which is nothing more than propaganda, obviously.
**interview from Robert Fisks book 'Pity the Nation' pg.308
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VrXp...
Link: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VrXpeELOUNsC&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=Fisk+Specter&source=web&ots=MS6pW5DI_e&sig=4OXH45z9JsZFy7SGor1b5A8_PhY&hl=en&ei=C9iMSe-BN4G0sAOCto35CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
Mark, Israel broke the latest ceasefire by limiting aid into Gaza and killing 6 Palestinians on 4th Nov.
Robert Fisk's interview with Brigadier-General Specter Specter (one of Israels pilots) demonstrates just how 'surgically precise' these attacks are:
----------------------
Fisk: Didn't the computer mean that the building that was hit was always the one that the Israelis intended it to hit?
Specter: Its not like that, we use our eyes, we compare our intelligence with what we see on the ground in Beirut. The computer helps us with timing but the computer does not find the target.
Fisk: What does?
Specter: We do.
Fisk: How?
Specter: Well, we have photographs. You see we are given photographs of the target, a building, say. We have to find it.
Fisk: How?
Specter: With our eyes. We fly over and look for it
Fisk: Aren't the photographs locked onto the computer system?
Specter: No. We hold the photographs in our hand. Then we look at the pictures and try to find the buildings on the ground.
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Flying over a highly populated and built up city. Trying to match what they see from above with a 'photograph' they hold in their hand. Hardly 'surgically precise', which is nothing more than propaganda, obviously.
**interview from Robert Fisks book 'Pity the Nation' pg.308
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VrXp...
Link: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VrXpeELOUNsC&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=Fisk+Specter&source=web&ots=MS6pW5DI_e&sig=4OXH45z9JsZFy7SGor1b5A8_PhY&hl=en&ei=C9iMSe-BN4G0sAOCto35CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
Mark, Israel broke the latest ceasefire by limiting aid into Gaza and killing 6 Palestinians on 4th Nov.