The need to show a victory. Failure at Bint Jbail challenges IDF's overall strategy

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: July 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

YAAKOV KATZ
Jerusalem Post
07-27-2006
Headline: The need to show a victory. Failure at Bint Jbail challenges IDF's overall strategy
Byline: YAAKOV KATZ
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 04

Thursday, July 27, 2006 -- The IDF entered Bint Jbail on Monday while calling it the "Hizbullah terror capital" in southern Lebanon and on Wednesday they experienced that terror from up close. Eight soldiers were killed and dozens of others were wounded in intense gunbattles that erupted in the town, once home to 20,000 Shiite Lebanese, most of whom had fled north in anticipation of the IDF incursion earlier ...

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