Posted on 19/07/06
Lebanon's village of sorrows
JERUSALEM -- It is, by most accounts, a quiet tobacco-farming town, whose greatest misfortune is to be located within a stone's throw of the volatile Israel-Lebanon border.To Israeli military intelligence, the Lebanese town of Aytaroun is seen as one of many hideouts for Hezbollah militants, who they say have been using rural villages like this one as a base to launch rockets at Israel.
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