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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970503
Author:Casey, John

. . . asked the Hezbollah man of John Casey, at the start of their chat about Mohammed, Christ, Hitler's Holocaust, etc

IN THE courtyard of a mosque in which I was standing in Tripoli during Friday prayers, I found myself exposed to the everyday sights and sounds of the Lebanon: the call of the muezzin, the chanted prayers of the congregation, the splashing of a fountain, and the ear-shattering supersonic boom of an Israeli warplane flying extremely high overhead. I had not heard this sound since the days when Anthony Wedgwood Benn, as Minister of Technology, sent fighters flying ...

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