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Article: VOA NEWS: LEBANESE TROOPS DEPLOY ON ISRAELI BORDER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 24, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
Lebanese troops have deployed along the Israeli border for the first time in decades, taking up positions vacated by the Israeli army.
Lebanese officials say several hundred soldiers, backed by U.N. peacekeepers, deployed Saturday in two areas on the border's western sector - near the coastal town of Naqoura, also known as Ras Naqoura, and the village of Labbuneh.
Both areas are about 100 meters north of the Israeli border.
Lebanese troops began deploying in south Lebanon in August after a U.N. ceasefire ended a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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