Lebanon

[Redhand]

Not even sure if this is the correct forum for this thread but it can get moved if its not.

Just wanted to know if anyone had any info/experience with the situation in Lebanon.

All i know is there is the Druz (sp?), Muslims, and Christians who are constantly quarrelling. I also know that the UN got their hineys shot off in there.

Could anyone recommend some websites (that are harder to find obviously) or could someone comment with some experience from there?

[Mrs. Frank S.]

I'll check with my friend back in my home town. He spent a few years playing "lets try to get across the bridge without getting shot by the snipers" (in Beirut) until he immigrated to the states. If I get any good website suggestions, I'll post 'em for you. He travels the world selling seed for crops, so it may be a while before I talk to him again.

[Redhand]

Pasha, i would really be honored if you would write a brief summary.

As for specifics, im interested in who these Druz[e] (sp?) are. I picked up on that they were like, semi-Christian, semi-Islamic, this true?

[jpb]

if you are looking for a fairly comprehensive history of the conflict in Lebanon you may want to try Robert Fisch's " pity the nation" and try to get the updated version as it include's up to the present day trouble at the cheeba farms.

i spent over three years in total in south lebanon with UNIFIL which included a lot of the incident's described by pasha, isrealie invasion-withdrawal, grapes of wrath, full withdrawal in 2000 and spent a long time in the isrealie exclusion zone and i must say that it was one of the most un-reported on conflict's in this media obsessed wourld.

before there are comment's on the in-effectiveness of the UN in south lebanon i would just like to say that we had a mandate which had to be adhered to, and that is not the easiest thing to do,

keep safe.

[GARRYOWEN]

The Irish forces spent nearly 30 years out there and took a number of casualties, At Tiri being to most notable.