Reply #13: Yes, I agree

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and my original reaction was from just seeing the picture. Now that I've more information, what I am finding is even more disturbing.

It turns out that this prison is under British and American control. The Brits and Americans were warned 15 minutes ahead of the raid to get out.

One Palestinian security guard was killed and 18 others were wounded, as gunfire rang out and explosions rocked the area after Israeli forces on Tuesday pushed into the compound that houses the prison.

Bulldozers started to destroy the compound as Israeli troops called through loudspeakers on Ahmed Saadat, the leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and his comrades to surrender.

Speaking over a mobile phone from the prison, Saadat told Aljazeera: "We will not surrender - we will fight. Either we die or win."

Saadat and three other PFLP members have been jailed in Jericho, a prison under US and British supervision, since August 2002 after his faction claimed the 2001 killing of far-right Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8F1D3402-082D-41DA-B3A3-863947BB2DA7.htm

In a sense this whole thing is one big photo op. There was no need to raid the place and bulldoze it. All the Israelis had to do would be to call ahead and ask them to turn over the prisoners in question. Why this show of brutal unnecessary force?