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All the Israeli troops had left Lebanon to the last soldier.
Mabrouk.

Fisk's war memoires.

Is this why Turkey should lead the international forces in Lebanon? Turkey has been strategically planting its forces along the pipeline map that the American destructive machine ha been drawing. I talked about the oil connection in this war before though it might not be the only reason for this war. Then again aren't all wars about money and control?

In support of Adam Shapiro, check his website here, and look at this video!
Adam organized the peace convoy that headed to Lebanon on August 12, i posted the details of the civilian resistance day earlier here.

The most ridiculous threats and appalling accusations have been thrown at him. (But similar accusations have been made against Rachel Corrie, a college student from Olympia, Washington, was killed while attempting to block an Israeli bulldozer demolishing a palestinian home in Gaza). These activists are called radicals who go to sites where they can be used as human shields for the terrorists against the IDF who is only trying to protect civilians!!.

(the same way they called the civilians who died in Lebanon human shields for HA, 1000 of them, 1/3 children)
Rachel was killed and others imprisoned, injured, threatend or deported...

Please show your support for Adam by emailing him or helping his group.
This letter was sent by him to Halla and i took the liberty to post it below.

"halla,
riham barghouti forwarded me your email about getting fellow activists to go to lebanon to help with the situation there. i am leading a similar effort and will arrive in beirut in the next couple of days to see about the strategy, logistics and feasibility of such an effort. as one of the co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in palestine, i have some experience at this. however, we would not be looking to do humanitarian relief (though in the context of challenging and breaking israeli closures or sieges of the south, we definitely are interested in that), but rather to use an international presence to change the political and media situation. The four basic ideas of what we can do are these, so far (obviously willchange, have more or possibly less, once i am on the ground and meeting with lebanese and palestinian groups):

1. attempting to break the isolation of the south by having international sand lebanese together go there with relief aid and to establish a presence;
2. work with palestinian refugee communities to provide solidarity and a presence
3. strategize and work with lebanese groups to develop massive civilian collective action for various purposes, including effecting the awful western media
4. increasing pressure on our governments to impose a ceasefire and force israel to stop its attacks on lebanon perhaps we can coordinate our efforts...

i will share info once i arrive.where are you located? how much response have you received to your call?
in addition to above, it is critically important to make sure that any such effort is respected by all groups in lebanon and not seen in any way to betaking sides in internal lebanese political dynamic...it would not help any of us to be seen as contributing to factionalism.
hope this makes sense...
in solidarity,
adam shapiro"

Halla also wanted to share a laugh!.