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UN Lebanon Force Now Getting Beaten Up By Little Kids

Oh it's true:

Lebanese youths threw stones at Spanish troops from the UN peacekeeping forces during an evening patrol in the village of Debbine over the weekend, while Hizbullah unveiled a monument along the Southern border of an armored personnel carrier with two fake rockets pointed toward Israel. A spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed that teenagers in the Southern village of Debbine had thrown stones at Spanish peacekeepers during a regular patrol. "It was a minor incident involving youngsters who threw stones," Milos Strugar told The Daily Star Sunday. Strugar said the incident took place around 10 p.m. on Saturday... Following an altercation in which the youths threw stones at the contingent, the Lebanese Army intervened to defuse the situation and arrested 15 residents. The army released all but one after brief interrogations, according to the NNA statement.

In most countries, throwing rocks at soldiers - your own or other countries' - generally gets you more than a catch and release wrist slap. So with this being evidence of Lebanese public sentiment, we're holding out a lot of promise for UNIFIL's mission.

We were originally going to just have a giggle about the digg headline for this story - Spanish peacekeepers stoned. But then we saw that Pamela already already had the best drug reference of the week with Danish Cartoon Publisher Gets White Powder, and figured that there's no way we can top that. Wait, what? Nobody else thought that was a drug reference...? Oh.

References:
* Spanish peacekeepers have another scuffle in South [Daily Star]
* Spanish peacekeepers stoned [digg]
* Danish Cartoon Publisher Gets White Powder [Altas Shrugs]

Previously:
* UNIFIL Given Authorization To Keep Sucking
* How Badly Does the UN Draft Screw Israel? Part IV: UNIFIL Will Not Get a Chapter 7 Mandate
* UNIFIL Involvement in 2000 Kidnapping Not News. Involvement of UNIFIL Soldier Who Thought of Lebanon as "Second Homeland", However, Is.

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