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...Tarchiche and heard the sounds of jets overhead. I had been hearing them for days in Beirut, and we both tensed, waiting to hear the boom of an explosion on the road. That did not come until we had descended past the town of Zahle and into the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border. We had stopped the car on a side road so that Ali could hand over his Lebanese mobile-phone chip to a friend heading into the country. The delay turned out to be a godsend. When Ali started the car again, it was to flee...
...left with the difficult task of reconciling how much has changed in such a short time. On the day of the kidnappings and the initial Israeli response, I met with an American professor friend to discuss a non-partisan American voter-registration drive we were organizing in the Bekaa Valley. I had volunteered at a similar event in May, at which we processed over 100 voter registration and absentee ballot requests from expatriates and Lebanese-Americans...
...Fifteen Israelis have been killed by Hizballah rockets in the past week. The coastal city of Haifa has been hit repeatedly, including a strike last Sunday that killed eight people. Tiberias and the Jezareel Valley have also been hit, as was Nazareth on Wednesday, killing two Arab-Israeli children. The weapons are not particularly accurate, but they are obviously terrifying - and potentially fatal. If nothing else, they serve Hizballah's goal of dragging the conflict out as long as possible...
...unnerving drive along a narrow road that bends and dips into the Litani valley eventually leads to a dusty causeway, constructed within the previous 24 hours, which crosses the river. It is a single lifeline connecting south Lebanon to the rest of the world, a fragile means of escape for despairing and frightened southerners - and an entry point for reporters eager to see firsthand this most recent outbreak of ancient history...
...kept contingents of Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon, the most strategic area outside its own borders where Tehran can exercise influence. Western diplomatic estimates of how many are there and where exactly they are vary, but several hundred Revolutionary Guards are believed to operate in the Hizballah-controlled Beqaa Valley, providing operational training to the movement's guerilla forces. For its part, Iran insists its aid to Hizballah is limited to humanitarian and moral support...