BEIRUT AIRPORT STUGGLES TO RECOVER FROM ISRAEL-HIZBULLAH WAR
October 1st, 2006
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
FOR nearly two months this summer, Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport was out of action, crippled by Israel's aerial attacks on the runways during its war with Hizbullah and by an air blockade that lasted long after the ceasefire was in place.
Beirut's airport was targeted the day after the war started on July 12, Israeli warplanes bombing the runways under the pretext that Hizbullah could receive armaments via the airport.
"To stop a runway you need to hit both ends and in the middle, and that is exactly what the ...
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