Wednesday, August 9. 2006
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By
Nicholas Blanford (Times-UK)
Two loud bangs echo through the UN peacekeeping headquarters in the coastal village of Naqoura and twin trails of white smoke are seen curving in a southward direction as Hezbollah's latest salvo of rockets streaks across the border into Israel. Hezbollah squads are still firing dozens of rockets a day into Israel from locations lying just a few hundred yards from the border. One such position lies between the villages of Naqoura and Alma al-Shaab, where Hezbollah over the past three years has established an unseen, but clearly formidable, military infrastructure of weapons depots, tunnels, and bunkers.
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