- All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the
Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies that were watching
Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
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- They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya
in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home
of a Shia Muslim cleric. He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight
of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby was
its head and torso which a young villager brandished in fury in front of
the cameras. Then the planes visited another home in Dweir and disposed
of a family of seven.
-
- All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the
Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies that were watching
Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
-
- They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya
in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home
of a Shia Muslim cleric. He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight
of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby was
its head and torso which a young villager brandished in fury in front of
the cameras. Then the planes visited another home in Dweir and disposed
of a family of seven.
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- Note - To read the rest of Robert Fisk's important article,
readers must now pay here...
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- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1174289.ece
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- Unfortunately, this will reduce the number of people
able to read Fisk's superb writing. -ed
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