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...only confirmed Lebanese's worst suspicions. Almost from the moment the cease-fire was official, Europe has hesitated in contributing substantial numbers of new forces to the 28-year-old United Nations peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL. France took the lead in co-sponsoring Resolution 1701, but then dispatched only 200 engineers, the first of which came ashore in southern Lebanon in dinghies. France has wanted clearer guidelines on when its troops can use force, lest they be left helpless if the conflict heats up again, though President Jacques Chirac agreed Thursday night to dispatch another 1,600 soldiers...
...Still, the ceasefire holds, helped partly by the swift political measures to dispatch Lebanese troops to the south and arrange for the arrival of the first of some additional 13,000 reinforcements for the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. As theU.N. and Lebanese troops move into the south, the Israelis are expected to begin withdrawing, possibly as soon as by the end of the week, a move that will further mitigate tensions here. But perhaps the most important contribution to maintaining stability is the returning hordes of refugees whose presence here speaks more of rebuilding and looking...
...Left-leaning Bloggers Ready for Their Close-up? Dispatch: Inside the Yearly Kos fest in Las Vegas, progressives get lessons in going mainstream...
...Left-leaning Bloggers Ready for Their Close-up? Dispatch: Inside the Yearly Kos fest in Las Vegas, progressives get lessons in going mainstream...
...French UNIFIL troops hand over to the queuing residents boxes of military rations, part of the peacekeeping force's own supplies but all they can offer given the inability of the Lebanese government and international NGOs to dispatch aid to the deep south. "We are okay in the village, but it's noisy outside," says Diah Bassar, 20. An understatement, perhaps. The sound of warfare is inescapable. The sharp crack of outgoing artillery rounds from Israeli positions just across the border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom...