Israel’s top general was quoted as saying troop withdrawals from Lebanon would be completed by Rosh Hashanah. Ran Cohen, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, on Tuesday quoted the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, as saying that all Israeli forces were expected to be out of Lebanon within days.
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