Cease-Fire Ruled Out...Bombs, Missiles Crisscross Border

AFP Nayla Razzouk July 25, 2006 at 05:08 PM
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Israeli warplanes blasted Beirut and troops battled Hezbollah guerrillas as Israel effectively ruled out any chance of a rapid ceasefire to end the two-week-old Lebanon conflict, and warned it could set up its own border buffer zone.The bombing on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold, ended a 24-hour lull that coincided with a lightning visit to the region by US Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice.

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