Is This White T-Shirt Guy?

Sorry for the light posting but I am working and researching information for a multi-part Qana II article. Lots of info will be forthcoming with names to match the pictures of the children and at least a partial timeline of their removal from the rubble. Needless to say, the media has done a piss poor job of policing themselves in the reporting department as the stories are all over the map. I have yet to find one "eyewitness" who has told the same story in their multiple interviews...

But in the meantime, I couldn't let this one wait. While digging and digging through image after image, I came across a pic from getty images of Rima Shalhoub and Marwa Shalhoub with a coffin that was used to bury Qana victims. Sitting in the background is a man in a black t-shirt who I can only assume is Rima's significant other. Here is the picture... This is the caption for the picture:
QANA, LEBANON - AUGUST 18: Rima Shalhoub (L) and Marwa Shalhoub, touch the empty coffin that held a relative, as most of the civilian victims of an Israeli air strike are formally buried August 18, 2006 in Qana, Southern Lebanon.

Is Black T-Shirt guy also White T-Shirt guy? You tell me...


If it's not White TShirt Guy then he has a twin in Lebanon. So we have a last name - Shalhoub - to go with the man. Since there is a plethora of articles citing interviews with rescuers, getting his first name shouldn't be too hard.

Before I close this post, I have a couple of Hezbollah Is Not in Qana updates...

Today's Lebanon Daily Star has this little gem tucked into an article...
"In footage that may dispute the resistance group's denials of operating from civilian areas, an Al-Jazeera special report aired Saturday night showed Hizbullah fighters firing weapons from kitchen windows and hiding in makeshift shelters."

[No surprise that I can't find this video anywhere on the Internet - it has probably been pulled and will never be seen... dammit!]

The Age from Australia noted something interesting tucked away in the olive groves in Qana on 7/31...
"In the hills above Qana yesterday, camouflaged in an olive grove and mysteriously unattended, two katyusha rockets sat ready on their launch stands, dull silver darts aimed south towards Haifa."

But remember - there were no Hezbollah Fighters in Qana...

Stay tuned for more...