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...life on the line each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want to be a part of this country than to serve overseas in a combat zone," Lopez tells Time. "People always talk about the immigration problem, but we can show we bring good to the country, too." Immigration advocates see no problem...
...Yasmin Hamidi, 25, the war was all she experienced on her first trip to Lebanon. Beirut's international airport was bombed on the day she arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi...
...Hamidi doesn't see how these attacks will benefit Israel. "With every bomb that was dropping, people were becoming more sympathetic [to Hizballah]," she says. "The hate, frustration and despair is growingfor a whole new generation of Lebanese children...
...incident - from Canada, Austria, Finland and China - were members of the 50-strong Observer Group-Lebanon, part of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), which has been monitoring the armistice lines along Israel's border since 1948. Their post, which consisted of a three-story whitewashed building with a bomb shelter, was only about 100 yards from a former South Lebanese Army prison that now serves as a Hizballah-run museum. There was no hiding that it was a U.N. post; "U.N." was painted in big black letters on the white walls, and the U.N. flag always flew...
...days leading up to the deadly strike, there had been several near misses of the U.N. post, all falling within a 300-yard radius, according to an officer of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Then, at around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, one aerial bomb exploded 300 yards away and the four observers went "ground hog" (UNIFIL's term for going to the bomb shelter). Soon after, according to the UNIFIL officer, UNIFIL contacted the Israeli military to warn them that one of their bombs had fallen close to a U.N. position. Over the next six hours, another...