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2006-07-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Captain America 2006-07-27 01:06|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Chouf Mounatins are southeast of Beirut and there aren't Christians left there. Walid Jumblatt's Druze cleared them all out, killing thousands in the process.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-27 01:58|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-27 01:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: Indeed, across the Hezbollah-dominated Shi'ite regions of southern Lebanon, whole villages have been flattened, almost 400 people killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced.

Whole villages flattened and only 400 dead? These must be tiny villages.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-07-27 02:16|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-07-27 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 yer right Phil. I think they got their geography wrong.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-27 10:48|| 2006-07-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, dude, cut me some slack... I have already sent those same tired photos of bombed out Hezi apartments back like 3 days ago. That prick editor has me on a deadline and I went clubbin' last night. I had to submit something with my expense report.

Posted by Intrepid Reporter 2006-07-27 11:42|| 2006-07-27 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 If the Hezzies are being bombed in the north and the south, they brought it on themselves.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-27 11:47|| 2006-07-27 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 The obvious point in this article, albeit the geography is bad, is that 100 percent of the Western news coverage encompasses a very small fraction of Beirut and the northern environs.

This will probably change as the Hezzies start shootin and scootin from the northern sectors of Lebanon.

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-27 16:57|| 2006-07-27 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, Walid and his Druze faction have been allowing Christians to move back to the Shouf. Indeed, in some towns they never left. Are there areas where they did leave and haven't returned? You bet.

Posted by Ebbaising Slenter5961 2006-07-27 19:53|| 2006-07-27 19:53|| Front Page Top

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