Deadly experience
Costly but valuable lessons for a guerrilla army that once fought in the shadows
TOMBSTONES in a Lebanese cemetery tell the story of Hizbullah. Beneath rugged hills marking the border with Syria, modest graves display photographs of young men, their names etched in ornate calligraphy. “Died in a hateful Zionist air raid,” reads the headstone of one of the group’s early recruits, killed here in the Bekaa Valley over 30 years ago. Metres away a family mourns a loved one who died the day before in the Syrian town of Zabadani.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Deadly experience”
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