Report: UN Troops Searching for Hizballah Weapons Tunnels

[Jerusalem Post] Jacey Herman - In southern Lebanon, a UN convoy drives past with 15 officers belongs to the Belgium contingent. Sgt. Dimitri Brams says the Belgian mission is focused on disarming mines and cluster bombs - and treating the local population in a hospital they brought over. But Ebrahim Mehdi, the owner of a small cigarette stall, overhears the conversation and later tells me he's noticed the troops almost daily searching the area for tunnels where Hizballah guerrillas store their weapons and explosives.


2006-11-15 01:00:00

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