Public marks from user ravi with tags middle-east & human-rights Public marks from user ravi with tags middle-east & human-rights http://blogmarks.net/user/ravi/marks/tag/middle-east,human-rights Guardian | FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1921258,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report. But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties. 2006-10-15T02:56:03Z ravi israel, human-rights, hypocrisy, middle-east

Guardian | FO's human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon

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Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report. But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties.

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