BEIRUT — Thought you might like to see a por­trait of the south I did for the Newark Star-Ledger. I have to say I was very pleased with the edit­ing process and these guys gave great play for a story that I would have thought most Amer­i­can media were no longer fol­low­ing much.

HORRORS OF WAR LINGER IN LEBANON

MAROUAHINE, Lebanon — For 34 days this sum­mer, the Israeli and Hezbol­lah rock­ets and mor­tars whis­tled through the lit­tle vil­lages like this one all across South­ern Lebanon. More than 1,000 peo­ple, includ­ing many Lebanese women and chil­dren, were killed. Far­ther north, con­crete cities were flat­tened. And then, the war ended on Aug. 14.
Or did it?
Nearly two months after a frag­ile cease-fire was announced and nine days after Israeli promised it had with­drawn the last of its troops from Lebanon, cit­i­zens in these south­ern vil­lages are skep­ti­cal. And angry.

You will have to enter some demo­graphic infor­ma­tion to see the whole story, but it’s not too odi­ous a require­ment.

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