BELOW: The view from an Israeli plane of a bomb hitting a Lebanese power plant. In retaliation for weeks worth of Hezbollah terrorism in the north, Israel has flown several dozen sorties over Beruit and environs. Lebanese citizens are without power and water; Israeli citizens have flocked to bomb shelters for fear of Hezbollah reprisals. Prime Minister Barak reaffirmed his pledge to the peace process on February 8, just minutes after the largest power plant in Lebanon was razed to the ground

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LEFT Mass graves exhumed on February 4 by American anthropologists and diplomats in the Guatemalan village of Xolcuay. Thirty-five bodies were found and reburied, a very small representation of the (officially reported) 200,000 who died in the small Central American nation’s thirty-six -year civil war.


Above: Joerg Haider, right-wing populist Austrian leader (translation: neo-NAZI who lauded Hitler for his "policies of discipline and control") whose party now holds just over half of the seats in the federal government. He contends that he has no plans to become chancellor in the next few years.