Reply #72: I read it today [View All]

[leftchick]

it sounds like this one. These people and the refugees are so much braver than the Israeli Pilots dropping bombs with no conscience.....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_a_taste_of_war_1

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Artillery shells whistled and burst, warplanes screamed and bombs thumped, sometimes several exploding in succession. Drones buzzed, scanning for targets. Rockets, likely fired by Hezbollah, lifted off in threes and fours like wind rushing through a tunnel.

The hotel shuddered from the cacophony of blasts in the surrounding hills. Doors rattled on their hinges. I pulled my mattress onto the floor, laid my bulletproof jacket nearby and flinched as shells screeched toward impact. Finally, at 5 a.m., I dozed off as the bombardments eased.

It soon started again. Less than 24 hours after arriving in southern Lebanon to cover the war, I witnessed the full ferocity of fighting that has forced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to flee.

My vantage point in the abandoned village of Ibl El-Saqi, whose Christian and Druse residents have no allegiance to Israel's Hezbollah foe, was safer than neighboring towns. Yet shells had struck several houses and the entire population had fled the intense bombardments around them.

... yeah hangin with Hezbollah no doubt. :eyes: