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Israeli Commando Raid Foiled Hizbullah

Juan Cole 08/19/2006

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Israeli Commando Raid foiled: Hizbullah

Lebanon says that the Israelis made a commando raid into the Biqa’ valley, attacking a village near Baalbak. The Lebanese maintain that they foiled the raid.

The Lebanese army increased the territory within which it functions in the South.

WaPo on Hizbullah: The best guerrilla group in the world.

Milt Bearden, who used to run a Hizbullah-like group in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s, is not impressed with Israel’s war on Lebanon’s Hizbullah.

Helena Cobban and Scott Harrop on Cordesman’s analysis of the Israeli war on Lebanon.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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