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AM loves him some Robert Fisk
August 29, 2008 | Posted by Charlie - 7:02am | 30 Comments
Charlie awoke to find this email from The Namesake this morning (it seems he's forgotten how to lovingly write in the 3rd person since leaving the world famous blog):
Charlie,
I was flipping through the archives here in Beirut this morning and came across this absolute gem by Robert Fisk. I'm sure the blog's readership will love it.
That 600mm Zelzal-2 (max. range 210km*) Hizballah tried to launch in 2006, by the way, must have been a special fantasy Zelzal-2. That was probably also a fantasy F-15 that the IAF claimed destroyed said fantasy Zelzal-2 in July 2006 and a fantasy Iranian official who admitted in August 2006 to supplying Hizballah with such fantasy weaponry.
*Or, for those of you who can't do the metric conversion, "capable of hitting the center of Israel."
I was flipping through the archives here in Beirut this morning and came across this absolute gem by Robert Fisk. I'm sure the blog's readership will love it.
"ARIEL SHARON has done it again. ... Israel's new Prime Minister is accusing the Iranians of transferring new long-range missiles to Lebanon - capable, so he claims, of hitting the centre of Israel - and accusing Syria of using Lebanon's airports to transfer these fantasy missiles. It's important to use the word fantasy. In the hundreds of miles I travel across Lebanon every month, I have yet to see a long-range missile, let alone a transporter. Satellite pictures would easily identify such a rocket and Beirut airport is these days so hide-bound with security that you couldn't move a rifle through its terminal."Well! If Robert Fisk says they don't exist, they don't exist. Right? Because the odds of one of the world's most secretive guerrilla organizations being able to hide an advanced weapons system from Robert Fisk and his trusty driver Abed are approximately 0.00/1,000. You have no secrets that you can hide from Robert Fisk, Hassan Nasrallah, so don't even bother trying. He knows where you are right this very minute, in fact, and is coming to interview you this evening after he drives his obligatory hundred miles around the Bekaa Valley. (You're in Zahle today, right? Having ice cream? Fisk knew that. He also knows you summer in Ehden. No one else would have guessed that, but Fisk did.)
- Robert Fisk, The Independent (London), 30 March 2001.
That 600mm Zelzal-2 (max. range 210km*) Hizballah tried to launch in 2006, by the way, must have been a special fantasy Zelzal-2. That was probably also a fantasy F-15 that the IAF claimed destroyed said fantasy Zelzal-2 in July 2006 and a fantasy Iranian official who admitted in August 2006 to supplying Hizballah with such fantasy weaponry.
*Or, for those of you who can't do the metric conversion, "capable of hitting the center of Israel."
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