Saturday, August 05, 2006

"Here in Halat, at the steep gorge cut by the Fidar River running down the mountains to the Mediterranean, dozens of Maronite Catholic residents gathered to stare in stunned silence at a roughly 200-yard stretch of four-lane highway flattened into rubble. The walls of the bridge’s support rose like cliffs at either end. “Where are the Katyushas of the Hezbollah here?” asked Joseph Abihana, who said he had been awakened by four blasts. “We are used to being a safe area here, but now there is no safety. I blame the Israelis.”"