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...clear. Israel's untested Prime Minister was dealt a formidable challenge two weeks ago when fighters for Hizballah, the Lebanese Islamist group, crossed the border and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. Olmert responded ferociously, authorizing air attacks and limited ground incursions aimed not just at punishing Hizballah but also at reshaping Israel's neighborhood. It's an enormous gamble and one that could well determine Olmert's political fate and the peace prospects of the area. If he succeeds, by neutralizing Hizballah and convincing Israel's enemies, at least for a while, that it's not worth picking a fight, Israel...
...conflict continues, however, that support will be tested. Having found air raids insufficient, the military has begun sending ground troops on limited incursions into southern Lebanon. Israel has called up three battalions of reservists in addition to three that had been called to duty earlier. As tanks and armored personnel carriers massed on the border, the Israelis insisted they had no intention of reoccupying Lebanon, but many feared they could wind up there again. "This is how it starts," said a former government official, referring to the in-and-out raids authorized...
...responded in kind. Within 24 hours, Israel conducted some 1,000 air missions over Lebanon--a number on par with the first day of the full-fledged war of 1982, when Israel moved to oust Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which had been using Lebanon as a staging ground for attacks on Israel...
...stop the militia from firing rockets from deeper inside Lebanon. Israeli forces have concentrated on tracking and eliminating Hizballah's rocket launchers, but with limited results. Many are hidden in bunkers that Israeli pilots can't find, which is largely why the infantry was sent in. While ground troops searched for launchers last week, Israeli intelligence pored over all the aerial photos of Lebanon taken by Israeli drones over the past six years, looking for evidence of bunker building so that pilots or ground troops could take out the rocket launchers likely held within. The idea is to weaken Hizballah...
...DIED. Sam Myers, 70, Delta bluesman and master harmonica player whose 1956 single Sleeping in the Ground was later covered by musicians from Robert Cray to Eric Clapton; of throat cancer; in East Dallas, Texas. In 1986, Myers revived his career as front man for Dallas-based Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets, considered among the U.S.'s best blues ensembles and the winner of nine W.C. Handy awards-the blues' Grammys...