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February 17, 2001 Hezbollah Attack Near Lebanon Border

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“Hezbollah Attack Near Lebanon Border, One Dead and 2 Wounded in Raid on Israeli Convoy in Disputed Region”

Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at an Israeli Army convoy in a disputed border region Friday, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding two others.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, or Party of God, said on the Hezbollah television station that the attack had been staged to mark the assassination by Israeli helicopters nine years ago of the former Hezbollah leader, Sheik Abbas Musawi, who was killed with his wife, 5-year-old child, and five bodyguards.

Speaking at an anniversary rally in the Bekaa Valley, Sheik Nasrallah also called on Palestinians to continue their uprising, and he used the example of a Palestinian bus driver who ran down a group of Israeli commuters, killing eight, as the type of “low-technology” operation that could be used effectively against Israel, according to Israeli news reports and sources in Beirut.

Source:  International Herald Tribune. Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post Service.  Saturday, February 17, 2001.

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