He was born to Protestant missionaries in 1896 in Sidon, now part of Lebanon.
An American woman has been shot dead in the port city of Sidon in southern Lebanon.
Reports say Witherall had worked for the Evangelical mission in Sidon for the past eight years.
The police recently discovered, for instance, that every single movable item had been stolen from the old Ottoman citadel at Sidon.
Absi's videotaped message was followed by Monday night's Katyusha attack on the Galilee and Tuesday's roadside bombing of UNIFIL forces near Sidon.
One of them, Sheikh Ahmed Assir, called on Sunnis in the city of Sidon to form brigades to help the resistance in Qusayr.
Similarly, Sidon, 25 miles north of Tyre and another city just attacked by Israel, was the site of several ancient military defeats by the locals.
Adding to the tensions are reports that Syria has allowed some 150-200 al-Qaeda operatives fleeing Afghanistan to settle in a Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon in Lebanon.
The two Lebanese cities cited most often are the southern coastal towns of Tyre and Sidon--both of which, by the way, the Book of Mark says Jesus visited.
The Israeli press clearly believes that this was a Hezbollah operation - newspapers have published maps indicating that the drone was launched near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
In June, some 500 Fatah armed men loyal to Mr Arafat took control of Sidon's Ain Helweh refugee camp whose 60, 000 Palestinian inhabitants make it the largest refugee camp in Lebanon.
Mr. THEODORE KATTOUF (Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria): Cities that are considered Lebanese today on the coast, such as Tripoli, Sidon and Tyre, were considered geographically, and even administratively, to be part of Syria.
But it is still a very dangerous drive, with many Lebanese saying they simply won't go past the town of Sidon, which in normal circumstances is only about a half hour drive south of Beirut.
In another Palestinian camp, outside Sidon, a port south of Beirut, where the regular Lebanese army dares not go, a bearded Sunni bomb-maker boasts of how many times he has travelled to Iraq to wage jihad.
Gesturing at a heavy chain-link fence that separates Ain Hilweh from the neighbouring town of Sidon, one Palestinian jokes that it reminds him of the homeland: it is just like the Erez checkpoint between Gaza and Israel.
Modern conflicts have helped cripple Sidon's economy: It is the western terminus of a 780-mile-long oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia built in 1950 by the predecessors of ExxonMobil and Chevron but shut down in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
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