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Old 03-20-2008, 05:34 AM   #7 (permalink)
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From Lebanon : A Country Study by Thomas Collelo, Library of Congress, 1987 :

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The United States support for the pro-Jumayyil, Christian brigades of the Lebanese Army during the 1983-84 Mountain War turned into a fiasco. Not only did the United States lose two aircraft to ground fire, but the shelling of Druze and Shia population centers by the U.S.S. New Jersey convinced most Lebanese Muslims that the United States had taken the Christian side.

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