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On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a plane bound for Paris, exploded just off Long Island less than 15 minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. All 230 people on board were killed instantly. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI investigated the crash, eventually releasing a report in 2000 that indicated that the fuel tank in the belly of the plane, which was filled by highly flammable vapors, had ignited. A short circuit in the plane's wiring most likely caused the spark.
Jerusalem—When Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed seven others in a July 12 cross-border raid, sparking an aggressive Israeli military reaction on Lebanon, a Jordanian friend of mine changed his MSN messenger user name to "F*** Hezbollah."
Key to Washington's efforts to get its message across to the Arab world are two Arab-language networks – Radio Sawa, begun in 2002, and Television Alhurra, launched in 2004. Backed by $78 million in federal funding this year, the efforts are meant to duplicate the success of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe during the Cold War. The networks have garnered their share of both accolades and criticism, but now comes controversial research alleging that they could actually be making matters worse.
AP - Israel struck a Lebanese army base outside Beirut and flattened a house near the border, killing at least 16 people in a new wave of bombings, while Hezbollah fired more rockets at northern Israel. Diplomats stepped up efforts to end the conflict, which has sent foreigners fleeing by land, sea and air.
AP - A suicide car bomber detonated explosives in a crowd of laborers gathered across the street from a major Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Tuesday, killing at least 53 people and wounding 105, officials and witnesses said.
A cruise ship has arrived in Beirut's port to evacuate U.S. citizens, an official saysFewer than 70 of the 25,000 Americans in Lebanon have been evacuatedFrench, Italian vessels arrive in Cyprus
Several large explosions rocked the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs early Tuesday, indicating that a seventh day of Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas was under way.