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Byblos

Ancient Phoenician city (modern Jebeil), 32 km/20 mi north of Beirut, Lebanon. Known to the Assyrians and Babylonians as Gubla, it had a thriving export of cedar and pinewood to Egypt as early as 1500 BC. In Roman times it boasted an amphitheatre, baths, and a temple, and was known for its celebration of the resurrection of Adonis, worshipped as a god of vegetation.



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When Lebanese villagers returned to Bint Jbail in late August after the Israelis left, they not only found their homes and shops destroyed, and the town hospital leveled, but a scrawled message saying "We will come back.
A fragile truce in Lebanon, but no peace if hard-liners have their way by Marshall, Rachelle / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Walid Maalouf, USAID director of public diplomacy for Middle Eastern and MEPI Affairs, delivered a speech at the Bint Jbail Club in Dearborn, Michigan on Sept.
Dearborn speech highlights USAID work in southern Lebanon by Gordon, Kent / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Reported The New York Times: "As a honking convoy of newly captured Israeli tanks [by Hezbollah guerrillas] headed to Bint Jbail [in southern Lebanon], Israeli helicopters began buzzing overhead.
Israel created two of its own worst enemies--Hamas and Hezbollah. ... by Neff, Donald / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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