Smart mob prevents Gaza air strike

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Smart mob prevents Gaza air strike

Posted by Peter Bihr at November 19, 2006

A smart mob has prevented an airstrike by Israeli forces on a house inhabited by a Palestinean terror suspect: After the Israeli military had called up the inhabitants of the nearby houses (which is standard practice to prevent civilian victims), a human shield of several hundred people gathered at the house, thus preventing the air strike. Politics aside: If this doesn’t show the power of smart mobs, what does?

(Article on NZZ)