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Wearing a camouflage uniform and a floppy hat to shade his bearded face from the noonday sun, a Hizballah guerrilla blocks the way to a hilltop position overlooking Lebanon's border with Israel. The region's olive trees, umbrella pines and craggy hillsides are believed to conceal Hizballah's arsenal of rockets, including long-range variants capable of striking targets deep inside the Jewish state. "Access to this area is forbidden," warns the fighter, cradling a Kalashnikov. Hizballah men later emphasize the point by detaining a TIME reporter. Mug shots, front and profile, are snapped with a digital camera and quickly relayed to Hizballah's...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - AP Video 0713dv-haifa-attack Israel unleashed a furious military campaign on Lebanon's main airport, highways, military bases and other targets Thursday, retaliating for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel and reached as far as Haifa, its third-largest city, for the first time. The death toll in two days of fighting rose to 57 people with the sudden burst of violence sending shock waves through a region already traumatized by Iraq and the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. It shattered the relative calm in Lebanon that followed Israel's pullout...