Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday August 11, 2006 Mideast in crisis winnipegfreepress.coma19 War in Lebanon Ignatieff regrets Choice of words by Joan Bryden o Ottawa ? Liberal leadership front runner Michael Ignatieff frankly admits he goofed when he said he was not losing sleep Over civilian deaths in Lebanon. I think there a no question this was a mistake Ignatieff said in an interview yesterday. The Rookie Toronto my and internationally acclaimed human rights expert has been mired in controversy since last week when he made his first pronouncements on the Middle East crisis. Michael Ignatieff waded into Ignatieff the fray almost three weeks after most of his leadership rivals. In a newspaper opinion piece he called for an immediate ceasefire and a unauthorized International Force to patrol a Buffer zone Between israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. In a subsequent interview with the Toronto Star he was asked whether he a Felt compelled to finally comment because of the israeli bombing of the lebanese Village of Ana where dozens of civilians were killed. It want Ana Ignatieff told the newspaper. Ana was frankly inevitable in a situation in which you have rocket launch ers within 100 Yards of a civilian population. This is the nature of the War that a going on this is the kind of dirty War you re in when you have to do this and i a not losing sleep about an unedited transcript of the inter View provided by Ignatieff a Campaign indicates Ignatieff prefaced those controversial remarks by saying that Ana was a tragedy. It was a tragedy for the lebanese and it was unfortunately a Vic tory for Ignatieff a onetime journalist himself said he has no complaint about the Way his comments were reported. One Rule i understand about this is that you re fully responsible for your words. You re even responsible when they re quoted out of context As i believe i was in this instance he said. But you have to behave like an adult Here. I think i used a phrase which implied insensitivity towards civilian casualties and i a Many things but i a not insensitive to civilian casualties and i a not selective about civilian casual ties. These Are tragedies and i am losing sleep about it. Its the most disturbing piece of International news we be had in 25 with the not losing sleep remark Ignatieff said he was ineptly trying to say simply that you can to develop policy on a reactive Ana was a tragedy. There be been tragedies lets also be Clear on the other Side. And leadership does not mean reacting to Ignatieff also took responsibility yesterday for confusion surrounding the reason he waited three weeks to Issue any comment on the lebanese conflict. Israel has a right to reply to Kidnap pings and rocket attacks by Hezbollah he said. He chose to wait until he believed the conflict was in danger of escalating into a full scale regional War involving Iran and Syria. ? Canadian press Tom Hanson / Canadian press Tonya Hess sister of maj. Pasta Hess von Kruedener Breaks Down in tears As she delivers the Eulogy. Daughter bids Farewell to the Tiger Kingston ont. When Kirsten maj. Pasta Wolf Hess von Krue recalls meeting the Man for the first Hess von Kruedener was Little her Dener that Kirsten came to realize was time in Chilliwack . Hildebrand father confided in her that tigers lived the Tiger. Had a stray thread dangling from his in his Mustache. He died july 25, exactly one month uniforms sleeve. He asked if anyone then five it made perfect sense. After his 44th birthday when the unit had a knife. Her fathers Mustache was big Bushy de nations observation outpost at Wolf asked what kind of thread is and Orange. It tickled her every time which he was stationed in South it Hildebrand said. He want try he told her to give the tigers a Lebanon was hit by an israeli air ing to be smart. I did to know but he Kirsten now 18, stood yesterday in strike. Three other in observers also always had Between 17 and 36 knives front of 500 of her fathers friends and died. On him at All military colleagues to Tell that Story the attack caused outrage around Hess von Kruedener lived his life at his funeral. Like so Many other Sto the world and the in and the Israel by three simple rules Hildebrand said. Ries it evoked laughter from the government Are both investigating look Good never get lost and if you assembled mourners. What led to the poem first in French get lost always look Good he said to she now knows that tigers never and then in English. A round of boisterous laughter. Lived in her fathers Mustache. Rather Gerhart Hildebrand one of Hess it was the Man behind the Mustache von Kruedener a closest friends ? can West news service 204-269-4685 ;