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Really Raad!
Lebanon mother names newborn after Raad rocket18 July 2006 BEIRUT - Raad is born -- not the long-range missile which Hezbollah is firing at Israel but a Lebanese baby boy whose mother wants to honor the Shia militant groups showdown with the Jewish state. After a difficult Caesarean delivery, Kawkab Al Akli gave birth to a boy at the Labib medical hospital in the southern coastal city of Sidon, her husband Mohammed Al Khaled told AFP. We had sought refuge at a school in Sidon after running away from our village of Marwahine in the south because a lot of people were killed in Israeli attacks, he said. This morning, my wife gave birth to a boy. She wanted to name him Raad to honor the resistance, Hezbollah and (its leader) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, he said. Still in pain, his wife, a mother of seven already, added: I will also bring Raad 2 and Raad 3. Hezbollah has since last week for the first time fired Iranian-made Raad missiles, extending the reach of the militant group up to the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The missile attacks come amid a fierce Israeli aerial assault on Lebanon triggered by Hezbollahs capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12. The battle has so far cost 230 lives in Lebanon, all but some two dozen of them civilians. Hezbollahs relentless barrage of rocket fire on northern Israel has killed 12 civilians and wounded dozens more. I suppose Raad is better than...... "Lance." Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-18 |
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