rces officer and wounding 32 others, making it the first suicide bomb to hit Lebanon in twelve weeks. The bomber had purportedly turned back toward the Bekaa Valley after failing to pass other checkpoints into Beirut. On June 23, another bomb detonated in the Tayyouneh area, near a military checkpoint at the en

town called Jobb Janine. It was still some distance from the Damascus road, but an important way-station: Syrian headquarters on the western side of the Bekaa Valley. The eastern part of our pincer, the 252" 198 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011669 Division, advanced up the Bekaa, alongside the Syrian border, toward the town

ound invasion as in 1982. Most of the attacks would be from the air, in two stages. The first would target Hizbollah, both in southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley further north, near the border with 251 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011722 Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of

town called Jobb Janine. It was still some distance from the Damascus road, but an important way-station: Syrian headquarters on the western side of the Bekaa Valley. The eastern part of our pincer, the 252"d 198 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028046 Division, advanced up the Bekaa, alongside the Syrian border, toward the town

ound invasion as in 1982. Most of the attacks would be from the air, in two stages. The first would target Hizbollah, both in southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley further north, near the border with 251 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028099 Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of d