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  • Lee Smith agrees that Hezbollah was actually beaten back in the area of the Shouf: ‘And so, the Party of God has achieved the 'great victory' of conquering a few Beiruti streets, terminating the credibility of the army, hastening the prospect of its disintegration, and damaging beyond repair for the foreseeable future, the Shiites 'ties to the Lebanese social fabric.’

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Thus did Hitler ordered the Battle of the Bulge, Nixon the bombing of Cambodia and Reagan the blasting of the Shouf villages to cover his retreat from Lebanon.

    Simon Jenkins: The Battle of the Surge 2008

  • Lee Smith agrees that Hezbollah was actually beaten back in the area of the Shouf: ‘And so, the Party of God has achieved the 'great victory' of conquering a few Beiruti streets, terminating the credibility of the army, hastening the prospect of its disintegration, and damaging beyond repair for the foreseeable future, the Shiites 'ties to the Lebanese social fabric.’

    The betrayal of Lebanon 2008

  • Rashmaya, in the northern Shouf mountains, from the El-Khoury family, related to the first (Christian) president of Lebanon and to the head of one of the important Christian clans of Lebanon.

    "Them" and "Us" turned to Dust 2006

  • Indeed, I have yet to see here any comment upon Muslim campaigns of murder against Christian Leb in Shouf, at Damour, …

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down Fox News 2006

  • Of course Raed knew nothing about that , he was trying to make it out to Saida, then up to Baakline in the Shouf then way down back to Beirut.

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • No one single public school was opened neither in the Shouf nor Tarik El-Jadideh.

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • Three days later, on September 4, the Israelis moved out of the Shouf, leaving the marines vulnerable to fire and demonstrating to Syria and the rest of the Arab world that Israel was retreating without any corresponding concession from Syria.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • Should we have withdrawn when the Israelis left the Shouf?

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • The Israelis had pulled out of the Shouf Mountains on September 3 and 4, 1983, thereby undercutting our effort to use their presence as leverage in the longer-term effort to achieve the withdrawal of both Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

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