The New Yorker -
13 Dec 2016 07:00
Across Lebanon, Hezbollah runs special cemeteries--some with their own Facebook pages--for its fighters. I recently visited several of them, including the new Garden of Zeinab, named after the Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter, where I counted a hundred and fifteen recent graves. Each was covered with a long white marble slab that detailed the fighter's life; the headstone showed a large color photograph. Khodor Safa, nineteen, was in the front row. He died in September, "performing his jihadi du...
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