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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject: Lebanon one year on - Report and 'in pictures' |
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Lebanon one year on - in pictures
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In the video diary that Ali Dagher intended as his last testament of the 34-day war between Israel and Hizbullah, there is a scene where he produces two cupped handfuls of metal bomb fragments that landed in his kitchen. "I collected these here in the house," he tells the camera. "I am not telling anyone about them because I don't want them to be afraid."
The time-date stamp at the bottom of the screen reads July 28 2006, a day of intense battle in this former fortress of Hizbullah. The man staring into the camera is hollow-cheeked and exhausted. But a year later, the chance to look back is intoxicating. Mr Dagher has watched this video diary 10 times since the war - each time a celebration of the fact that he is still alive.
"When I was filming this tape, I had no hope of surviving. All I was thinking in my head was that I was going to die," he says. "But now that the war has ended, and I am still alive, I feel good. I feel that I did something important."
Mr Dagher's wife, Jumana, cannot bear to remain in the house when the video is on, and walks out. "It hurts me too much to remember," she says.
The sense of siege has not yet lifted in Lebanon - despite a durable ceasefire, the deployment of 13,500 United Nations troops to keep the peace in the south, and millions of dollars pledged for reconstruction from Arab states.
Instead, say many Lebanese, there is a deepening dread of a new war to come. There is no shortage of likely pretexts for a confrontation: a string of high-profile assassinations and bombings, and deepening political divisions in Beirut. In the north, there have been fierce clashes with al-Qaida affiliates at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, outside Tripoli. In the south, there are suggestions of a plot to drive out the UN peacekeepers and provoke a new war with Israel.
There are also undeniable signs that Hizbullah is digging in for a new encounter with Israel, this time in the isolated and sun-scorched mountains just north of the Litani river.
"Don't think that everything got better immediately after the war was over," Mr Dagher says. "It will take 20 years." |
To read full article click on the link above.
Sad that people are expecting more war to come. I'm bloody glad I'm not Lebanese.
Bloody hell! I can't believe it's already been one year. Where has it gone....? |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| If Hizzboolah said tomorow we are not longer in the conflict against Israel what would the future be like? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| If Hizzboolah said tomorow we are not longer in the conflict against Israel what would the future be like? |
What if they hizzed and booed? |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| If Hizzboolah said tomorow we are not longer in the conflict against Israel what would the future be like? |
What if they hizzed and booed? |
the fact is that they have attacked since Israel left |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Let's not forget the well documented kidnapping. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Kidnapped Israeli troops 'alive'
The troops were kidnapped during a Hezbollah incursion into Israel
France's foreign minister says he has heard that two Israeli soldiers seized in a Hezbollah raid over the Lebanese border last year are still alive.
Bernard Kouchner said he understood they were alive from talking to parties attending a conference near Paris.
Rival Lebanese groups, including Hezbollah, were in France for talks on the country's political crisis.
The capture of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev led to a war with Israel in which more than 1,300 people died.
Mr Kouchner said he had raised the fate of the two Israeli soldiers with Hezbollah officials.
"I received the assurance that the negotiations [for their release] are continuing, that they are on the right track, in particular with the United Nations," Mr Kouchner said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6900057.stm |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Lebanon factions 'open dialogue'
France says Lebanon's rival political groups have reopened dialogue after months of deadlock that has crippled the country's political life.
The move comes after two days of talks between the main Lebanese parties, which were held in France.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the participants had agreed not to use violence for political ends.
Mr Kouchner said he would go to Beirut in late July to follow up the dialogue.
Lebanon's Western-backed government and the opposition supported by Syria and Iran have been deadlocked since six opposition ministers quit in November.
The parties have since failed to agree how a new unity government might be structured.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6899266.stm |
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