El QaaI
t was just after noon on the second day of searching, and the effort was falling apart rapidly. When six Syrian rockets impacted southeast of El Qaa and reports came into the Lebanese Army headquarters of artillery fire sweeping the hills where search parties were looking for the fugitives, there was an almost immediate chain reaction that infuriated Sector Commander Abdul Mansour. It was as if the Syrians were covering the fugitives, giving them time to evade and escape. And the Lebanese Army reaction was nothing short of cowardice. No one had been killed or wounded by the incoming fire, but that didn’t seem to register with the UNICEF people or the citizens of the town who were in a panic.
The woman who ran the UNICEF mission accompanied by elders from El Qaa complained to the
