61.   The bomb blew up near Tallet Ahmadieh, where Israeli forces and the allied Lebanese militia maintain an outpost.

62.   The area often has been used by Hezbollah guerrillas to launch attacks on Israeli troops and their Lebanese militia allies in an Israeli-occupied zone in southern Lebanon.

63.   The attacks continued Wednesday, and a member of an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia was killed in sporadic gunfire between Israeli forces and Lebanese guerrillas.

64.   The border region where Lebanese guerrillas confront Israeli troops and their Lebanese militia allies has been generally calm in recent days.

65.   The fundamentalist Shiite Muslim group is leading a guerrilla war to oust Israeli troops and their allied Lebanese militia from a border enclave in south Lebanon.

66.   The Israeli army maintains that the prison is the responsibility of an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia, the South Lebanese Army.

67.   The group is not related to the Lebanese militia of the same name.

68.   The Jewish state gives work to relatives of members of the South Lebanon Army, a Lebanese militia that patrols the security zone along with Israeli troops.

69.   The Lebanese militia Hezbollah has often fired katyusha rockets at northern Israel to retaliate for Israeli strikes in which Lebanese civilians are wounded.

70.   The security sources with the Israeli backed Lebanese militia and officials with a U.N. peacekeeping force nearby could not explain the discrepancy.