Much love to my MySpace crew for not letting this slide.

So I was turned on to the fact -- many people were offended that I seemed to give the tone of voice from my previous blog that the IDF had infallible credibility. People were incensed that I seemed to place blame on Hezbollah when, in actuality, as is noted on Jewschool.com, even the IDF gave another alternative for what could have happened in Qana.

However, what the subject of the investigation at hand is is precisely what happened between 1 am and 8 am in Qana?

Apparently it's not so simple.

Take, for instance, the story reported by the pro-Iraq uruknet.info. According to Rania Masri, a local from Al-Kura (El Koura), Lebanon:

From 1 to 3.30 am this morning...Israeli bombs were bombing Qana...killing 103 civilians in a UN camp. They bombed, this time, a residential apartment building, far from the road, in a fully residential area, in Qana.

Didn't the IDF say that the place was bombed at 1 AM? What is this? Bombs at 3:30 AM?

What about the 7:30 AM strikes on buildings a few hundred meters away, and the 8 AM building collapse?

No one was able to come to the bombed site until 8 am this morning.

As the Lebanese civil defense forces are attempting to remove the bodies, the Israeli planes continue to hover and continue to bomb the roads.

WAIT! The IDF said that the building FELL at 8 AM. People were allowed INTO the building at 8 AM?
The very right-wing World Net Daily reports:

The missile was fired at the Qana building at 1 a.m. Lebanese time. According to scores of local reporters, the building collapsed at about 8 a.m. – leaving open a seven-hour gap military officials currently are attempting to analyze.

Is this local person lying? Who are the "scores of local reporters"?

Examine the way The New York Times reported the story from the viewpoint of a Mr. Shalhoub, resident of Qana:

The first missile struck around 1 a.m. local time, throwing Mohamed Shalhoub, 38, into an open doorway. His five children, ages 12 to 2, were still inside the house, as was his wife, his mother, and a 10-year-old nephew. He tried to get to them, but minutes later another missile hit. By morning, when the rescue workers arrived, all eight family members were dead.

At least eight people in the house survived, and told of a long, terrifying night. Some remained buried until morning. Others crawled free. Ms. Shalhoub sat under a tree with Mohamed Shalhoub, without his wheelchair, and three others, listening to the planes flying overhead in the dark.

OK. The building was hit from the top, but "rescue workers arrived" -- "in the morning". When was "the morning"? Before 8 AM? Or after 8 AM?

If you will say after 8 AM, then it makes sense with uruknet.info.

However, if you will say before 8 AM, sunrise in Jerusalem that day was at 5:53 AM. This gives a 2 hour window of opportunity for "in the morning".

If what uruknet is saying is true, then the IDF must be lying. If what the IDF is saying is true, then uruknet must be lying. In fact, the Boston Globe lends a bit of creedence to the uruknet article, as it reports that "after 7 a.m. the bombing subsided so rescue crews could get to the site".

These are some DAMN good rescue crews if they can get in and out and rescue people within 1 hour -- before the building "collapsed at 8 AM."

Where are these "scores of local reporters"?

Who knows for sure what happened in Qana?