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...Soon after the attack, Israeli artillery and fighter jets began striking targets in southern Lebanon, particularly Hizballah positions, and bridges and roads the abductors might use to move the soldiers away from the border. Planes flew over Beirut as well. By evening, however, it appeared that the soldiers had been either moved away from the border area or secreted away somewhere. "The prisoners have been moved to a safe area," Hizballah said in a statement, without further elaborating...
...JU52 bombers of the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion arrived. For three hours high-explosive and incendiary devices fell on the town, whose narrow streets were packed with villagers and peasants from the surrounding countryside. Those who managed to flee the firestorm were hunted and strafed by Messerschmitt and Fiat fighter planes. A third of the town's 5,000 residents were killed, mostly children and old people; perhaps another thousand visitors died. Far from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, which had begun the previous July, the town had no military importance. Its bombing was an exercise...
That strategy, though, carries dangers. Already Palestinian militants have retaliated for the Israeli assault--which, for all its ferocity, killed one Palestinian fighter in three days--by kidnapping and murdering an Israeli teenager. The fallout from the Shalit saga is only hardening attitudes on both sides, making the Bush Administration's goal of forging a Middle East peace deal and a Palestinian state more remote. To Israelis, the soldier's abduction and the Palestinians' initial failure to secure his release have highlighted the fecklessness of both Hamas and Abbas, until now the one Palestinian leader acceptable to Israel. Among...
When Israeli F-16 fighter jets shrieked low over the summer palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad last Wednesday morning, the message was clear: Stop sheltering Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of Hamas who is No. 1 on Israel's hit list. "He is definitely in our sights," says Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon. "He is a target...
...different people. In reality, Suskind reports, he actually was merely a low-level al-Qaeda drone, "like the guy you call who handles the company health plan." A CIA official told Suskind that Zubaydah was like "Joe Louis in the lobby of Caesar's Palace, shaking hands," after the fighter was punch drunk and well past his prime. Nonetheless, Bush characterized him as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States...