Bedrooms contained withintowers at this housingcomplex on the Lebanesecoast feature foldingshuttersandslidingglass walls that allowsea breezes to cool theinteriors.
Similarly, many observers have been surprised by the number and range of the weapons being used against Israeli civilians and, in at least one case, against an IDF naval vessel off the Lebanesecoast.
In Lebanon, meanwhile, the beleaguered pro-Western parliamentary majority, which has faced a long insurrection by the Syrian-backed opposition led by the political-cum-military Islamist Shia group, Hizbullah, was further undermined by the arrival off the Lebanesecoast of American warships.
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.