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CounterterrorismBlog gets it:

"We are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Ummah." - Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Ayman al-Zawahiri's words do not only apply to his al-Qaeda and affiliated groups, but to all terrorist organizations. Terrorists do not employ terror tactics because of their military strength, but because of their military weaknesses; they have no hope of defeating modern militaries on the conventional battlefield. They seek to strike at the strategic weakness of democratic states: public opinion. They seek to erode the public's will to fight terror groups. Terrorist organizations skillfully manipulate the media to propagate their message. And in some instances, the terrorists have willing accomplices within the media. The current war between Israel and Hezbollah provides examples of both media manipulation and accommodation.

They also point to EU Referendum's blog "Qana - The Director's Cut."

Also note, the number of killed in the Qana incident is down to 28 now. How could that be? I did find an explanation in the MSM, but it's a bit thin.

The Lebanese Red Cross had reported early on that it had removed 28 bodies from the rubble, said Lucy Mair, a researcher for Human Rights Watch.

"The original 54 number actually came from the fact that one of the survivors was saying, 'We were 63 people from two families camped out in the basement.' They identified only nine living people, and immediately people started doing the subtraction," she said.

But it appears that at least 22 people escaped from the basement, leaving 13 unaccounted for, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. One body may have been buried by family members and not taken to the morgue.

It is no longer clear whether the 13 listed as missing were in the building when it collapsed.

"The rescue teams say they've totally completed their operations and there are only 28 bodies," Mair said.

Isn't nice to see that Human Rights Watch is hip deep in the story? No doubt they are just helping to clarify the horrors that they originally screamed about.

Oh, and did anyone notice that Hezbollah is launching rockets from Qana, again?

Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel on Sunday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage against Haifa.

Israel then attacked the Lebanese town of Qana, with the army saying it destroyed the launchers that fired the rockets against Haifa as fighting intensified despite a drive at the U.N. to pass a cease-fire resolution.

Yep, the link is from Salon reprinting AssPress story lines. About the only news that they cover that isn't excessively biased. Though I'm sure there will be further condemnation of Israel to follow.