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...were sent to do a mission - I cannot give more details than that - but we lost our way. I was driving the car with two friends, both 24 years old. We passed two checkpoints manned by the Lebanese army and were waved through. We approached a third checkpoint and all of a sudden I saw Syrian flags. About 70 to 80 m away, I stopped the car immediately...
...Since us three were a part of the Israeli secret service, the Syrians were worried about the possibility of a rescue mission. We were not considered POWs at first and did not have the same rights as civilians. The only time I had a visit from a Red Cross representative was 24 hours before my release...
When Condoleezza Rice left Washington for the Middle East on July 24, she knew she was taking the biggest gamble of her public career. She had a planeful of reporters, no schedule and no winners up her sleeve. Her mission - to forge a deal that promised a lasting end of conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Shi'ite militants - was being widely dismissed as quixotic...
...says that in every mission, a pilot tries to check and double-check that a target is free of civilians before he presses the trigger on his weapons. Before firing, the pilot must first get clearance from a superior officer tapped into intelligence data and in radio contact with ground troops. Still, the decision to fire ultimately rests with the fighter pilot. "We've had many cases of canceling missions, returning with our bombs, because at the last minute the pilot saw people who weren't Hizballah," says Col. A, who points out that in the dozens of daily sorties...
...looking increasingly unlikely, however, that the U.S. and Israel will win agreement on the deployment of an international force before Hizballah has agreed to a cease-fire. If the mandate of such a force is to be a counterinsurgency mission on behalf of Israel, there will, quite simply, be no takers. France - currently the most likely candidate to lead such an international force - has made clear it wants an immediate cease-fire endorsed by Hizballah before such a force is deployed. The military confrontation has reached an impasse, say French officials. And that position is likely to be supported...