Death of a town -Chris McGreal, The Guardian

[Wetzelbill]

Death of a town

With ruthless efficiency, the Israeli army has been crushing and rocketing the Palestinian refugee town of Rafah in a manner which rivals the destruction of Jenin last year. But it is all in the name of stopping terrorism so the international community has remained silent. Chris McGreal reports

Monday October 27, 2003
The Guardian

The moment al-Brazil plunged into darkness, Amjad Alweda knew what was coming. He grabbed his wife and three young children and bundled them down a pitch-black stairwell to a room at the back of their small block of flats. And then he stopped and listened.
The sound of the tanks echoes along the streets around here so it seems they are coming from every direction at once and you never know which way to run," says the 32-year-old Palestinian man.

Minutes later an engine roared and tons of steel - he didn't wait to discover whether it was a tank or a bulldozer - came crashing into the front of Alweda's computer shop. He squeezed his children through a back window and told them to run as the clanking monster tore at his livelihood.

http://64.4.10.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=30d479437dcf48fa781c4d6a51f563a1&lat=1067365592&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eguardian%2eco%2euk%2fg2%2fstory%2f0%2c3604%2c1071634%2c00%2ehtml

[plurality]

1. bad link n/t

[Wetzelbill]

2. My bad, try this out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1071634,00.html