Until today the southern zone was off limits to most Lebanese.
The fifth target, in the southern zone, was a command center near Numaniya.
It is in this southern zone that the greater part of the population, both nomadic and settled, is concentrated.
The southern zone has an equatorial type of climate with four seasons two wet and two dry.
Lebanese officials sent 100 additional police officers to the southern zone, more than doubling the size of the force to address the residents' fears of lawlessness.
If the withdrawal is accepted, the Lebanese Army will eventually move into the southern zone and then seek to disarm the guerrillas.
Iraqi jets have entered the southern zone more than 150 times since the United States and Britain launched four nights of air and missile strikes in December 1998.
The highest buck and deer take in the southern zone was in Steuben County, followed by Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua Counties.
Since Mr. Bush took office on Jan . 20 American and British jets have struck targets in the southern zone three other times, most recently on Tuesday.
Yet when the Nazis finally occupied the southern zone in November 1942, the Italian authorities in charge of the Côte d'Azur refused to deport Jews.
However, the southern zone continues to supply the northern zone with electricity, and the northern zone still processes the sewage of Greek Nicosia.
