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	Devotion and discipline fuel Hezbollah's fight - The Boston Globe
		A Hezbollah militant who referred to himself as Hussein prayed yesterday on Tel Masoud, a hilltop in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbail, where Hezbollah and Israeli forces have clashed.
		BINT JBAIL, Lebanon -- The Hezbollah fighter who called himself Hussein foraged yesterday in the wreckage of a hilltop home where just a week ago his unit had fought with an Israeli assault force in one of the deadliest clashes of the nearly three-week-old war.
		Constant chatter from a Hezbollah control room in the Bint Jbail sector came from the men's radios.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/01/devotion_and_discipline_fuel_hezbollahs_fight (0 words)

	Jbail (Byblos): Ancient Crossroads of the Mediterranean
		Jbail (Byblos) is a true microcosm of the civilizations that have populated Lebanon over the centuries.
		A visit to Jbail (Byblos) is a chance to walk through the annals of Lebanese history and experience firsthand the diverse cultures that have made this area a mosaic of civilizations.
		Jbail (Byblos) is not simply a picturesque seaside town, but has a history that has been closely tied to the Mediterranean for millennia.
	www.destinationlebanon.gov.lb /eng/Byblos.asp (662 words)

	Archaeological Virtual Tours: Jbail (Byblos)
		Jbail (Byblos) is one of the top contenders for the "oldest continuously inhabited city in the world" award.
		According to Phoenician tradition, Jbail (Byblos) was founded by the god El, and even the Phoenicians considered it a city of great antiquity.
		Today, Jbail (Byblos), located on the coast 37 kilometers north of Beirut, is a prosperous place with glass-fronted office buildings and crowded streets.
	www.destinationlebanon.gov.lb /eng/Byblos/Byblos.asp (229 words)

	Trapped Lebanese Flee Town During Break, Trapped Residents of Shattered Bint Jbail Flee During Break in Bombings - CBS ...
		The Israeli assault on Bint Jbail had cut a swath of destruction right through the center of the town.
		Houses were flattened, the faces of multistoried buildings sheared off, girders snapped by the force of explosions lay on the road, fallen power lines snapped in the wind.
		Nicknamed "the capital of the resistance," the town showed vehement support for the Shiite guerrillas during the 1982-2000 Israeli occupation of the south.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/01/ap/world/mainD8J7A3OG0.shtml (0 words)

	internet128.com » Blog Archive » Did the IDF take it on the chin in Bint Jbail?
		You’d expect a pompous blowhard like Hezbollah’s leader Nasrallah to declare victory in Bint Jbail no matter what, but events over the past few days suggest that Hezbollah at a minimum fought the IDF to a draw in the Shiite militia stronghold.
		But in control is what the IDF claimed to be of Bint Jbail early last week, before a well-planned Hezbollah ambush killed eight soldiers from the Golani Brigade.
		As Battalion 890 of the Paratroopers Brigade began to pull out of Bint Jbail, Military Intelligence personnel using an unmanned aerial vehicle spotted a group of Hizbullah terrorists on motorcycles on their way to set up an ambush for the withdrawing troops.
	internet128.com /index.php/archives/2006/07/29/did-the-idf-take-it-on-the-chin-in-bint-jbail (471 words)

	My Way News - Hezbollah Fighters Kill 9 Israeli Soldiers
		The Hezbollah fighters are heavily outnumbered, with some 100 in Bint Jbail and several hundred more in surrounding fields, bunkers and cave, according to the officials.
		The eight deaths in Bint Jbail, which Israel has been trying to take for four days, were the heaviest Israeli casualties in a single battle during the Lebanon campaign.
		It has the largest Shiite community in the border area and was known as the "capital of the resistance" during Israel's 1982-1990 occupation because of its vehement support for Hezbollah.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20060726/D8J3VS809.html (1323 words)

	Heavy fighting continues deeper in Lebanon
		Fierce fighting raged as Israeli troops moved deeper into Lebanon to besiege Bint Jbail, dubbed the "capital of the resistance" due to its intense support of Hezbollah during Israel's 1982-2000 occupation of the south.
		Hezbollah claimed to have caused Israeli casualties in hits on five tanks moving on the road to Bint Jbail and around Maroun al-Ras, a hilltop village closer to the border that Israeli ground forces seized in heavy fighting over the weekend.
		Bint Jbail holds a strong symbolism for Hezbollah.
	lighthousenews.us /03/NEWS/ISRAEL/ISRAEL_072406_3.html (1178 words)

	Trapped Lebanese Flee Town During Break
		Monday, July 31, 2006; 8:34 PM BINT JBAIL, Lebanon -- The elderly man stumbled over the rubble, his crumpled suit hanging off his shrunken frame, his loose pants held together by a pin after eating only a piece of candy a day.
		Next to him, his wife balanced a bag of clothes on her head as she tried to pick her way over the wreckage of bombed-out buildings.
		Houses were flattened, the faces of multistoried buildings sheared off, girders snapped by the force of explosions lay on the road, fallen power lines snapped in the wind.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073100481_pf.html (888 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fighting rages at Lebanon-Israel border as Rice arrives in Mideast
		Fierce fighting raged at the border as Israeli troops moved deeper into Lebanon to besiege the biggest town close to the frontier — Bint Jbail, nicknamed the "capital of the resistance" due to its intense support of Hezbollah during Israel's 1982-2000 occupation of the south.
		Following an intense artillery barrage, Israeli troops took control of a hilltop in Bint Jbail, but the rest of the town was held by Hezbollah guerrillas, military officials said.
		Hezbollah said it caused Israeli casualties in hits on five tanks on the road to Bint Jbail and around Maroun al-Ras, a hilltop village closer to the border that Israeli ground forces seized in heavy weekend fighting.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-07-23-mideast-fighting_x.htm (0 words)

	Wounded troops describe Bint Jbail battle as 'hell on earth' - Haaretz - Israel News
		Wounded soldiers who took part in heavy combat Wednesday on the outskirts of the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbail recounted their experiences from their hospital beds at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center, which received 22 of the wounded casualties of the battle.
		Most of the dead and seriously wounded are those from the initial wave of ground troops which tried to enter one of the homes in Bint Jbail.
		The soldiers who suffered light wounds are primarily those who arrived on the scene to retrieve the bodies of the dead and wounded soldiers lying in the battlefield.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=743473 (0 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 08/01/2006
		A team composed of a surgeon, coordinator and the head of mission left to the first destination, Bint Jbail, where MSF had sent surgical supplies the day before.
		Local people and journalists told MSF that a lot of injured were blocked and isolated in the village of Aaitaroun, three kilometers to the east.
		Together with a group of journalists and with three local drivers, the MSF team was able to improvise a convoy and evacuate these people away from Aaitaroun.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/2006/08-01-2006.htm (0 words)

	NPR : Dip in Violence Lets Bint Jbail Residents Regroup
		NPR : Dip in Violence Lets Bint Jbail Residents Regroup
		Dip in Violence Lets Bint Jbail Residents Regroup
		All Things Considered, July 31, 2006 · Sick and elderly residents of the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbail emerge from the rubble of their homes after more than a week of heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5595473 (166 words)

	Rice makes surprise visit in Beirut
		Hezbollah claimed to have caused Israeli casualties in hits on five tanks moving on the road to Bint Jbail and around Maroun al-Ras, a hilltop village closer to the border that Israeli ground forces seized in heavy fighting over the weekend.
		Bint Jbail holds a strong symbolism for Hezbollah.
		Much of the town's population of 200,000 is believed to have fled, but many are still there.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /world/2006-07/24/content_648248_2.htm (0 words)

	ThreatsWatch.Org: InBrief: Battle for Bint Jbail as World Convulses
		While Hizballah rockets continue to rain down on Israeli cities with imprecision, with at least 5 wounded in the latest attack on Haifa, little is made in Western media circles of Hizballah’s strategy of embedding deep within the Lebanese Shi’ite population, effectively using them as human shields.
		To the northwest of Bint Jbail, Israel has resumed strikes on Hizballah-dominated southern Beirut.
		In Britain, there is debate about a potential self-imposed arms embargo on Israel, as some seem to seek to capture a moral high ground by disengaging in the War on Terror.
	inbrief.threatswatch.org /2006/07/battle-for-bint-jbail-as-world (826 words)

	ABC News: Refugees Find Widespread Devastation
		BINT JBAIL, Lebanon Aug 14, 2006 (AP)— There was no sign of life in Bint Jbail on Monday, only incinerated cars, devastated buildings and an Israel tank parked near the entrance to town.
		They met heavy resistance from guerrillas: In one ambush, eight soldiers were killed, one of the highest Israeli tolls in a single battle of the campaign.
		Hezbollah declared victory burnishing the reputation of a town already known as the "capital of the resistance" because of its support for the guerrillas during the 1982-2000 Israeli occupation of the south.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2311197&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (477 words)

	Airstrike Kills U.N. Observers
		In a pre-dawn raid, Israeli warplanes destroyed two neighboring houses in Nabatiyeh, which is 16 miles north of Bint Jbail and has been heavily bombarded in the past few days.
		In one house, a man and his wife and their son were killed, said the couple's daughter, Shireen Hamza, who survived.
		That was in addition to numerous clashes around the town of Bint Jbail, a town known for its intense support of Hezbollah.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,106964,00.html (1421 words)

	Israeli Cabinet Decides Not to Expand Ground War -- 07/27/2006
		The Israeli cabinet said on Thursday that the military action is intended to achieve the goals of "returning the abducted soldiers to Israel and halting the firing of missiles at Israeli communities and targets," a statement from the prime minister's office said.
		There was more fighting in Bint Jbail on Thursday, but not as heavy as the fighting on Wednesday, when a Hizballah ambush killed eight Israeli soldiers and injured 22.
		Bint Jbail, which means "daughter of the mountain" in Arabic, was a terrorist stronghold even before the time of Hizballah.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060727c.html (1019 words)

	Catatan Perjalananku (My Travelogue) - Lara (14): "We wished we were dead," she says, "so we could at least get a rest ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bint Jbail also was the epicenter of a fierce ground fight between Israel and Hezbollah that ended when Israeli forces pulled out on Saturday.
		Before we reach Bint Jbail, we stop briefly in the village of Tbnin, where there are dozens of people waiting by a gas station for taxis, called from places further north, to arrive and take them to Beirut.
		When we arrive in downtown Bint Jbail, it is clear the people we had spoken to in Tbnin were not exaggerating.
	wisat.multiply.com /journal/item/65 (1801 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		Fierce fighting was raging at the border as Israeli troops moved deeper into Lebanon to besiege Bint Jbail, nicknamed the "capital of the resistance" due to its intense support of Hezbollah during Israel's 1982-2000 occupation of the south.
		Israeli artillery barrages sent plumes of smoke into the air and the military said soldiers moved in and took control of the area around Bint Jbail, about 2 1/2 miles from the border.
		Hezbollah claimed to have caused Israeli casualties in hits on five tanks moving on the road to Bint Jbail and around Maroun al-Ras, a hilltop village closer to the border that Israeli ground forces seized in heavy fighting over the weekend.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=61621 (520 words)

	Jbail
		Jbail est dans une situation similaire à celle de Saïda.
		Jbail et son agglomération (y compris Aamchit) doivent défendre leur identité et demeurer des villes à part entière et non des morceaux de banlieue.
		Pour ce faire, Jbail doit plus que jamais développer ses fonctions touristiques et commerciales (y compris pour les produits agricoles maraîchers).
	www.cdr.gov.lb /sdatl/4/Jbail.htm (229 words)

	GRIM DAY FOR ISRAEL IN LEB By URI DAN Mideast Correspondent - New York Post Online Edition: News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Several of the Shiite guerrillas were killed and at least 22 Israelis wounded in Bint Jbail, a town Israeli brass thought they had under control.
		The bloodshed in Bint Jbail surprised the Israeli military because it came a day after Israel had sealed off three sides of the town and seized Hezbollah "war rooms" containing Iranian-made weapons and high-tech equipment.
		In the postmortem analysis, Israeli brass decided to pound Bint Jbail as hard as possible without wiping out the remaining villagers.
	www.nypost.com /news/worldnews/grim_day_for_israel_in_leb_worldnews_uri_dan_______mideast_correspondent.htm (778 words)

	Wounded IDF troops describe Bint Jbail battle as 'hell on earth' : Indybay
		Wednesday Jul 26th, 2006 10:48 PM Wounded soldiers who took part in heavy combat Wednesday on the outskirts of the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbail recounted their experiences from their hospital beds at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center, which received 22 of the wounded casualties of the battle.
		Most of the dead and seriously wounded are those from the initial wave of ground troops which tried to enter one of the homes in Bint Jbail.
		The soldiers who suffered light wounds are primarily those who arrived on the scene to retrieve the bodies of the dead and wounded soldiers lying in the battlefield.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/07/26/18291781.php (1165 words)

	Trapped Lebanese flee town during break
		BINT JBAIL, Lebanon - The elderly man stumbled over the rubble, his crumpled suit hanging off his shrunken frame, his loose pants held together by a pin after eating only a piece of candy a day.
		While she was there, the Israeli offensive began, and bombardment rained around the town and across the south.
		Trapped in Bin Jbail, the epicenter and the scene of the bitterest fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces the old, the infirm, women with children fled from their shattered homes.
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2426998 (671 words)

	ABC News: Trapped Lebanese Flee City of Bint Jbail
		Trapped in Bin Jbail, the epicenter and the scene of the bitterest fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli forces the old, the infirm, women with children fled from their shattered homes.
		BINT JBAIL, Lebanon Jul 31, 2006 (AP)— Hundreds of Lebanese limped north to safety Monday after weeks spent trapped by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah including the war's bloodiest ground battle.
		Two residents died as they tried to make it out, one of malnutrition, the other of heart failure, said Nabil Harkus, a doctor in Tibnin, where the bodies were brought.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2256725&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (451 words)

	KnoxNews: World
		By daybreak, bloody and bruised soldiers, shock etched deep in their faces, were streaming back over the border into Israel.
		The incessant crackle of gunfire pierced the air as explosions over the hills surrounding Bint Jbail kicked up plumes of gray smoke.
		As fellow Israeli soldiers try to console him, a tank driver, left, sits on the turret, clutching his head between his hands after bringing back wounded comrades from southern Lebanon on Monday.
	www.knoxnews.com /kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_4867784,00.html (796 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Recriminations fly in Lebanon as reconstruction stalls
		BINT JBAIL, Lebanon - In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as tractors driven by Hezbollah men rolled in to begin scooping away the rubble and debris of a month of war with Israel, while engineers and others set to work.
		The political wrangling unleashed in the war's aftermath, culminating in the walkout by six Hezbollah-aligned ministers in November and six weeks of unbroken demonstrations in Beirut by Hezbollah and its new allies — including Christian and Druse groups that were once its mortal enemies — has raised sectarian tensions, especially between Sunnis and Shiites.
		But officials in Bint Jbail and other southern towns accuse the government of adding red tape and withholding aid to punish them.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0701MLN/07012201NYT.asp (780 words)

	Rice revisits Middle East - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com
		Israel’s pullback of its forces from the border town of Bint Jbail ended the bloodiest siege in what has so far been only a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon.
		Even Israeli officials said the battle was tougher than expected in Bint Jbail, a mainly Shiite town with deep symbolism for Hezbollah.
		Nicknamed “the capital of the resistance,” the town showed vehement support for the guerrillas during the 1982-2000 Israeli occupation of the south.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/14085947/page/2 (710 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Hezbollah executes Lebanese 'collaborators' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The village, which houses one of the largest Hezbollah infrastructures in close range to the Jewish state, was the scene last week of fierce fighting that left eight Israeli soldiers dead.
		Bint Jbail is commonly called the "capital" of south Lebanon.
		The Galil Report last week broke the story that during its initial incursion into Bin Jbail, the IDF received significant help from locals who did not flee ahead of the battle, according to military sources.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51370 (924 words)

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