Hezbollah gunmen ransacked the home of the now-disbanded South Lebanon Army’s commander. The gunmen broke into Gen. Antoine Lahad’s locked villa in the Christian town of Marjayoun hours after Israel completed its withdrawal from the region. Lahad, who fled to northern Israel, said he has no immediate plans to return to Lebanon, where he is under a death sentence for treason.
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