34 DAYS OF WAR: Nearly 1,000 Killed, 1.5 Million Displaced...

Bush And Hezbollah Both Declare Victory...

Associated Press Steven H. Hurst August 14, 2006 at 09:53 PM
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Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah...

...President Bush said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel and he blamed the guerrilla group for the devastation. "There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon," he said.

The conflict left nearly 950 people dead -- 791 in Lebanon and 155 on the Israeli side, according to official counts. An estimated 500,000 Israelis and about 1 million Lebanese, or a quarter of the population, were displaced in the conflict, government officials said.

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