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A journalist on the frontlines: for those wanting to understand the modern Mideast, Robert Fisk is a must-read.(Opinion & ARTS)

National Catholic Reporter | July 11, 2008 | Copyright

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It is Lebanon, 1996. The advancing Israelis have ordered villagers to flee their homes. Abbas Jiha drives his ambulance filled with 14 people, delivering bread and the wounded to the hospital. An Israeli helicopter descends and fires two Hellfire rockets, one of which crashes through the back of the truck and blows it 20 meters into the air. The area is strewn with the dead--two adults and four children.

Robert Fisk, correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, digs up shrapnel from the missile. Its serial number reveals that…

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