Since 2005 · From the books
The Belgian prosecutor took charge of the international inquiry into Rafic Hariri's assassination, as Kofi Annan had requested.
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Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: Abirached's dates imply a boycott of about seven weeks; Picard's chapter speaks of several months.
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: 6 February in three sources against 5 February in the introduction to 33 jours. The church is placed 'in the southern suburb' by de Clerck & Malsagne and 'on the old demarcation line' by Mermier & Picard.
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: Picard's chapter in 33 jours (p. 84) dates 1680 to 2005, evidently a slip.
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: Abirached attributes the rockets to Hezbollah; Khayat says nobody claimed them.
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Time: 34 Days (Israeli reconstruction) puts the attack shortly after 9:00; Abirached quotes Hezbollah's statement giving 'around 9:05'; 34 Days dates Al-Manar's announcement to 10:15.
Reports at the time: The archive's first report of the capture comes at 10:40 (Al-Manar via AFP), 25 minutes after the time 34 Days gives for Al-Manar's announcement. The toll of eight soldiers appears only at 22:30, after reports of three (17:10) and four in a tank (18:05). Archive times are wire-feed publication times, not event times.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Dieckhoff (pdf:192) dates the bombing of bridges and roads across the country from the next day, 13 July.
Reports at the time: The archive records two civilians killed near Ayta al-Shaab at 12:25 on 12 July, strikes on the Zahrani bridge from 17:45 and on Saida's Awali bridge at 22:30.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive reports only that Lebanon, through Ghazi Aridi, asked for an urgent Security Council meeting on 'the Israeli aggression' (20:35); the government's disclaimer does not appear in it.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive carries the statement at 18:50, nearly two hours after the 5 p.m. given by 34 Days.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive reports Olmert calling the attack an 'act of war' from 13:30, consistent with the 12:50 press conference; it does not report Halutz's 'fifty years' remark.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive does not mention Samidoun.
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: Abirached quotes Hezbollah's announcement of the capture 'around 9.05'; Harel & Issacharoff place the burnt-out vehicles and the start of the search at about 9.45 a.m. These are different moments, not necessarily a conflict.
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: 34 Days puts the runway strike on the night of 12 July; Abirached and Dieckhoff date the strikes to 13 July.
Reports at the time: The archive's first report of the runways being hit is 06:30 on 13 July, after the Damour bridge (00:50); helicopters struck the airport's fuel tanks again in the evening.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Wednesday, 12 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Start date: 13 July (Abirached; Dieckhoff 'from the next day'), 12 July (Mermier).
Reports at the time: The archive reports a 'general blockade' at 10:05 on 13 July, supporting Abirached's date.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Friday, 14 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive reports the killing of the cleric Adel Akkache, his wife and eight children at 06:40, matching the book.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
The reports of that day, as they came in
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books range
Sources differ: Verdeil puts the spill at 10,000-15,000 tonnes; Bustos gives the full contents of the depot, 35,000 tonnes, some of which burned and some spilled. The two figures measure different things.
Reports at the time: No archive report for 13-15 July mentions Jiyeh; the fires and the slick first appear on 26 July, and the strike notes put Jiyeh under 16 July.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Night of 12 July (34 Days) against 13 July (Ayad and Donati).
Reports at the time: The archive reports the Saudi statement only at 05:20 on 14 July, a day later than either book.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Wednesday, 12 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: 34 Days puts the start of the bombing of Dahiyeh on the evening of 14 July (see 2006-07-14-haret-hreik).
Reports at the time: The archive backs Abirached: it cites Hezbollah reporting a strike on its southern-suburb stronghold at 08:30 on 13 July.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: Not found in the archive.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive first reports the four sailors as missing (03:55 on 15 July) and also an Egyptian civilian ship hit in the same attack, which the books do not mention.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Date: early evening of 14 July (34 Days) against 15 July (Abirached). Buildings destroyed: more than 200 (Harb), 182 plus 192 damaged (Verdeil), at least 127 (Bustos).
Reports at the time: The archive reports Nasrallah's headquarters and residence building destroyed on Friday evening 14 July (19:50, 20:15) and the official news agency confirming the nine-storey building 'entirely destroyed' at 15:10 on 15 July, which may explain Abirached's date.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Saturday, 15 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive gives more than 12,000 Gulf nationals leaving through Masnaa on Thursday 13 July, and reports a raid near Masnaa (three dead) only at 12:45 on 15 July.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive's reports for 15 July have Sheikh Mohammad Yazbeck's house in Baalbek bombed at 17:30 and, at 19:00, ten civilians wounded in strikes on the homes of two Hezbollah leaders; none mentions thirty dead.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books mid July
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books mid July
Sources differ: Toll: 21 (34 Days); 18 civilians, mostly children (archive, 13:30); 20 including 15 children (archive strike note citing Reuters).
Reports at the time: The archive dates the attack to 15 July: first five civilians killed by helicopter fire on a minibus and a car (13:05), then eighteen civilians, mostly children, who were leaving on the Israeli army's orders (13:30). The 15 July strike note says 20 dead including 15 children; a 17 July note places the vehicles between Al-Bayyada and Shamaa.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: Not found in the archive.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Reading of the G8 text: support for Israel (34 Days) against a call for an immediate halt (Abirached).
Reports at the time: The archive's Haifa toll moves from eight to nine and back to eight. It does not record Rice's 'not the time' remark; its Lebanese tolls that day do not add up to Abirached's sixty.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Toll: nine including seven children (34 Days); thirteen of the Awadah family including nine children (archive, 18 July 01:13); nine dead, four wounded (archive strike note, 17 July).
Reports at the time: Archive: thirteen dead of the Awadah family, nine of them children (posted 01:13 on 18 July).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive names the Jamhour (and Kfarshima) barracks and gives eleven dead, four of them officers.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: Archive: '240 dead since the beginning of the assault' (01:55 on 18 July).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books range
Reports at the time: The archive traces the corridor idea to Chirac's call of 19 July. Israel agreed to a corridor on 21-22 July; on 23 July aid was still stuck in Syria; the first WFP convoy got to Tyre on 26 July.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive places much of the 19 July fighting at Aitaroun and has Hezbollah claiming six Israeli soldiers killed against Israel's two.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Israeli dead: five (34 Days) against four among eight dead (Abirached).
Reports at the time: The archive reports four Israeli soldiers killed that evening; a fifth is identified only on 23 July, the day Hezbollah acknowledged the Israeli entry.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: 20 July (Abirached) against 21 July (34 Days).
Reports at the time: The archive reports the interview at 23:10 on 20 July, so 34 Days' date probably reflects its broadcast or reporting the next day.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Friday, 21 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive attributes the plan to Kofi Annan and reports the same evening that Israel accepted a humanitarian corridor.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive places the crossing at Avivim after the border fence was destroyed (15:40).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: The archive names the Syrian minister Mohsen Bilal as information minister, not foreign minister.
Reports at the time: Archive: 'Moshen Bilal, the Syrian information minister'.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: An archive report of 18 July, six days before Daher's date, already describes fires breaking out 'again' at Liban Lait, so the plant may have been hit more than once.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The 'urgent ceasefire' remark appears in the archive before the visit, made en route (06:15); Rice landed in Beirut at about 13:20.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive first reports nine soldiers killed (11:40), then eight (20:25), on 26 July.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Origin of the plan: shown to Rice in Beirut on 24 July (34 Days; it later calls it 'Siniora's seven-point plan of July 24', pdf:233) against presented in Rome on 26 July (Abirached).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Evening of 27 July (34 Days) against 28 July (Abirached).
Reports at the time: The archive supports 34 Days: the unanimous endorsement is reported at 23:20-23:25 on 27 July; AFP carried it the next morning (08:55 on 28 July), which may explain Abirached's date.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Friday, 28 July 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: On 28 July the archive has Hezbollah saying Israel had already withdrawn from Bint Jbeil, Maroun al-Ras and Aitaroun.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Toll: about thirty (Abirached; Ayad and Donati), 28 including 17 children (34 Days, final), 57 including 21 children (Arab TV via 34 Days), sixty (blogger via 34 Days); the archive's tolls run from 20 to 52 (with 30 children) and over 60.
Reports at the time: Contemporary tolls in the archive: 'at least twenty killed or wounded' (08:10), 35 (09:10), 32 including 14 children (09:50), 51 including 22 children (10:15), 'over 60' (Beawitness), and 52 civilians including 30 children on the day of national mourning (31 July). None gives the lower figure of 28 adopted by 34 Days. The 48-hour suspension appears at 00:22 on 31 July.
The reports of that day, as they came in
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: In 111101's July 2006 archive (Figures page), the HRC row 'Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Gulf area' reads 200,000 (earlier), 231,000 (11 August), 180,000 (15 August) and 100,000 (16 August).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Date: 1 August (34 Days), night of 1-2 August (Daher), 2 August (Abirached). Identity of the five: Hezbollah fighters (Israeli army, archive), 'presumed members' (Abirached), civilians with no link (Daher).
Reports at the time: Archive tolls: eleven civilians killed and six kidnapped (police, 07:50), nineteen killed (Al-Jazeera), sixteen including seven children (15:35); Halutz claimed ten fighters killed and five captured.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Wednesday, 2 August 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive has the Israeli justice minister announcing the resumption for dawn on Wednesday 2 August.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Place: Lebanese village of al-Qaa (Daher; archive) against 'the Syrian side of the border' (34 Days). Toll: 33 (Daher), 34 (34 Days).
Reports at the time: The archive locates the strike in al-Qaa, at a refrigerated container and the Lebanese customs compound, with tolls rising from five to 26 and 34, mostly Syrian workers; nothing places it inside Syria.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: 34 Days gives both 7 August (p. 182) and 5 August (p. 202); Abirached gives 7 August.
Reports at the time: The archive confirms 7 August (21:45).
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Saturday, 5 August 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive places the convoys near Ersal and the Syrian border, with at least four to five dead.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive names Marjayoun, taken after brief fighting on 10 August.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books range
Sources differ: Number: 'several hundred thousand' (Verdeil) against 'millions' (de Clerck and Malsagne).
Reports at the time: The archive's first cluster-bomb deaths are dated 14-15 August; on 22 August it quotes a UN count of at least 170 sites hit.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: 11 August (New York date; Daher) against 12 August (Beirut date; Abirached). Both are right for their time zones.
Reports at the time: The archive files the vote under 12 August (02:55 Beirut time).
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Saturday, 12 August 2006
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: 11 August (Picard; Friday evening in New York per Harel & Issacharoff) against 12 August (Abirached). The difference is the time zone: the vote came in the early hours of 12 August in Beirut.
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The convoy is not in the archive.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive gives 24 Israeli soldiers killed across the South on Saturday 12 August, of whom 34 Days attributes eleven to Saluki-Randoria; a Haaretz item places the tanks' passage of the Saluki on the evening of 13 August.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Monday, 14 August 2006
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Brital: five dead of one family (Daher) against at least seven to nine dead and over thirty wounded (archive).
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive has strikes on Ain Bourday near Baalbek at 07:10 and, at 09:50, a report of seven people killed by Israeli strikes minutes before the truce; it does not mention the minibus.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Speed: 'almost all home within 48 hours' (Raymond) against the HRC figures in 111101's July 2006 archive (Figures page), which still count 702,413 displaced on 15-16 August and 262,174 on 19 August.
Reports at the time: The archive also records Israeli leaflets on 14-15 August telling southerners not to return before the army's deployment.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Lebanese dead: about 900 (de Clerck and Malsagne, Ministry of Health), 1,100 all categories (34 Days), 1,183 'civilians' (Mermier and Picard; Bustos, who adds 91-134 combatants), nearly 1,200 (Abirached; Quemener, apparently repeating Abirached word for word). Share of civilians: 'almost half' (34 Days, Israeli framing) against the civilian majority in all Lebanese-sourced figures. Israeli dead: 116 soldiers at 14 August (Makki), 150 (Abirached), 161 (34 Days), 162 (Mermier and Picard), 170 (Bustos). Displaced in Israel: 250,000 (Mermier and Picard) against 400,000 (Abirached).
Reports at the time: The archive records the Israeli army's own estimate of 530 Hezbollah fighters killed, 180 of them verified (14 August, 02:20), far above Hezbollah's admissions quoted in 34 Days.
The reports of that day, as they came in
Since 2005 · From the books
Sources differ: Lebanese dead: nearly 1,200 (Abirached; Quéméner, who repeats the same figures and probably depends on the same source), about 900 (de Clerck & Malsagne 2025), 1,400 (de Clerck & Malsagne in Confluences 2020). Israeli displaced: 400,000 (Abirached, Quéméner) against 250,000 (Mermier & Picard introduction). Cutoffs and definitions are not given.
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Sources differ: Damage estimates: $2.071 billion (HRC, 22 July, 111101's July 2006 archive), over $3 billion (Vignal, 14 August), $3.6 billion (CDR, 17 August), $2.8 billion (government, November), $3-5 billion for the economy (34 Days).
The reports of that day, as they came in
Other date in the books: Monday, 14 August 2006
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive has no report of the Qana funeral or the festival.
July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive reports only Italy's planned contingent of 2,000 to 2,200 men.
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive has the Lebanese army deploying along the Syrian border on 23 August, and holds Assad's own statement, made late on 22 August at 23:25.
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: The archive ends with this day's single report, on Bush and Annan urging quick troop pledges.
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Reports at the time: After the archive's end date.
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
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July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books
Since 2005 · From the books
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