Little Green Balloons Cause Panic in Lebanon

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Sat Jan 27, 2007 at 3:41 pm PST • Views: 971

Today the official Lebanese news agency warned people in the south to beware of the diabolical Zionist poisoned death balloons: Balloons released in Israeli promotion sow panic in south Lebanon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

An Israeli promotional campaign involving balloons caused panic among Lebanese civilians Saturday when the wind carried them over the border into southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese media reported that some civilians were hospitalized after inhaling the gas in the balloons.

However, the photographs published on the Web site of Hezbollah’s TV station Al-Manar show green balloons from a promotional campaign for Ha’ir, a Schocken group newspaper.

Lebanese sources said the balloons reached the southern Lebanese cities of Nabatiyeh and Tyre, and the Lebanese army warned civilians not to touch them. Some were brought to Italian UN troops for examination.

Lebanon’s official news agency claimed that they were “poisoned balloons” dispersed by IDF aircraft.

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 Frank says:

Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short, cloth neck ornament, currently in resurgence.