Word: tyre
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...right bait--he had besieged the lakeside town in which a knight's wife was staying--and the Crusader force, frying in heavy armor and unable to fight its way to the water, was overwhelmed by the Muslims. When the Christian knights retreated to the coastal fortress of Tyre, Saladin turned his army inland. Jerusalem withstood him for less than two weeks. In stark contrast to the earlier Crusader bloodbath, his occupiers neither murdered nor looted. "Christians everywhere will remember the kindness we have bestowed upon them," he said...
...southern Lebanon have survived repeated Israeli assaults--in 1978, 1982, 1993 and last month. Saadallah Balhas, 56, is an agricultural worker who was badly wounded in Qana, where Israeli artillery shelled a U.N. post sheltering more than 600 civilians. Last week he recognized this reporter visiting the hospital in Tyre where he was being treated. We had spoken in July 1993 after the Israelis bombed his house during an earlier offensive, breaking both his legs. "In 1993 you took my picture," he said. "My wife Zeinab was standing beside me. She died in Qana." His children and grandchildren also died...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...about seemingly positive developments. The Lebanese President said he found "a very sincere will" in Clinton to make peace in the Middle East. Even as negotiations continued, Israeli air, artillery and gunboat attacks continued in Lebanon for the 14th consecutive day, pounding suspected Hizballah guerrilla bases and the Beirut-Tyre highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted a pipeline which provides water to 23 villages in southern Lebanon as well as to Irish, Finnish and Ghanaian...
...TYRE, LEBANON: A suicide bomber blew himself up today near an Israeli army convoy in Southern Lebanon, killing one soldier and wounding seven. Hizballah has claimed responsibility for the attack in the village of Taibeh, 2 1/2 miles from the Lebanese-Israeli border. The attack is the latest incident in the decade-long struggle between the Iranian-backed Hizbollah and Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon. Despite two UN resolutions calling for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, Israel has occupied the area since 1985 in an attempt to stop guerrilla raids on settlements in northern Israel. The bombing came...