Posted on 10/05/2007 9:30:58 AM PDT by DetailMan
...Here at Nahr al Bared, I am at once reminded of what I had seen six years ago at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan a few days after 9/11. The difference being Nahr al Bared seems endless in terms of distance from one end of the battlefield to the other. Of the 8,000 destroyed buildings that have not been completely reduced to concrete rubble and twisted steel, everything is full of bullet and blast holes. Many of the bodies of the killed Fatah al Islam fighters have been removed (you'll remember, I was invited to the burial of more than 100 yesterday), but there are still more bodies here decomposing in the uncleared area I am in now. The stench at times is unbearable. Flies buzzing around us constantly. Stray cats crawling throughout the ruins. Shell casings — from 7.62 and .50 caliber rounds to mortar casings to the big 105 mms — are strewn all over the place. I see furniture (or what's left of it) destroyed cars, trucks, and scooters, cigarette cartons, water bottles, books, papers, clothes, and a tiny girl's shoe with a smiley face on it. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at tank.nationalreview.com ...
Near Tripoli ... NOT in IRAQ, FWIW
sounds like detroit.
Also sounds like Mexico.
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