Israeli bombs kill 13 in Lebanon, Rice holds back

[cali]

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Intense Israeli bombardment killed 13 people in Lebanon on Friday, while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she would return to the region only when the time was right for a lasting solution to the crisis.

Warplanes repeatedly bombed hill villages near the southern port of Tyre and hundreds of artillery rounds crashed across the border from Israel, killing 10 people, including a Jordanian.

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The Israeli army, which lost nine soldiers in clashes in the same region on Wednesday, believes it has killed at least 200 Hizbollah fighters in the 17-day-old war, an Israeli military source said. Hizbollah has acknowledged 31 dead in its ranks.

Rice, who had been due to end a visit to Malaysia on Friday, delayed her departure without saying why. Her change of plan suggested there had been no breakthrough in efforts to halt a conflict that has killed 458 people in Lebanon and 51 Israelis."I am going to return to the Middle East. The question is when is it right for me to return to the Middle East," she said.



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I don't know what to say about Rice. Nothing seems sufficient.

[RCinBrooklyn]

1. More people are being killed in Iraq daily, but this gets headlines.

[cali]

2. They're both

deserving of headlines.

[spanone]

3. Ms. Rice is pathetic. How do they sleep at night?

[smacky44]

4. It is not up to Condi. It's up to the reasonable and humane people in

Israel to stop their out-of-control military government.

[cali]

5. That ain't happening

and as the one great world power, it is incumbent upon us to pressure Israel for a cease fire, instead of giving them license.

[bdamomma]

6. remember those bombs that were sent to Israel were sent

by us. this has got to stop.