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Lebanon Prepares Mass Graves in Tyre

NPR

By Madeleine Brand,

Ivan Watson

Published August 2, 2006 at 1:00 PM EDT

A Lebanese army soldier marks a name on a wooden coffin before it is carried to a refrigerated truck and taken to a hospital in Tyre, Lebanon, Aug. 2, 2006.

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