Word: blanford
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...Spend time in any Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and you quickly understand that Osama bin Laden is a symbol of resistance. In the run-up to the Iraq war, TIME Beirut correspondent Nick Blanford and I visited 'Ayn al-Hilweh, a Palestinian camp outside of Sidon. Two things struck me. A fundamentalist Sunni group, Usbat al-Islam, occupied half the camp, which we didn't enter because we probably wouldn't have made it back out. And, two, the Fatah commander was already recruiting fighters to go to Iraq to fight the occupation. Both sides were signed...
...Syrian-backed Shi'a Muslim Hizballah group. Soon after the hostilities ended, Hizballah and its allies staged massive protests demanding that Siniora's government resign. Political killings are commonplace, including the murder of one of Siniora's ministers. In an interview with TIME's Scott MacLeod and Nicholas Blanford, the Prime Minister explained how and why he has stood his ground...
...read a speech to supporters. But at the end of the rally he leaped onto a chair to blow kisses to the well-wishers. "Saad! Saad! Saad!" the crowd chanted, as sure a sign as any that the torch has passed, from father to son. -With reporting by Nicholas Blanford and Romesh Ratnesar/Beirut, Bruce Crumley/Paris and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Damascus, Syrian citizens wondered whether Lebanese rage over Hariri's death might provoke insurgent attacks against Syrian troops, which could reignite Lebanon's civil war. The blast in Beirut may yet consume more than just the life of Rafiq Hariri. --Reported by George Baghdadi and Scott MacLeod/ Damascus; Nicholas Blanford/ Beirut; Sally B. Donnelly, Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin/ Washington; and James Graff/Paris