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The Best Way to Drop Propaganda Leaflets

By Andy Bowers
Published July 19, 2006 at 1:00 PM EDT
A leaflet dropped by Israeli warplanes depicts Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as a cobra snake threatening to lash out at Beirut and its northern suburbs. It reads: "To the Lebanese people, beware: he appears like a brother, but he is a snake."
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A leaflet dropped by Israeli warplanes depicts Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as a cobra snake threatening to lash out at Beirut and its northern suburbs. It reads: "To the Lebanese people, beware: he appears like a brother, but he is a snake."

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Andy Bowers oversees Slate's collaboration with NPR?s daytime news magazine, Day to Day. He helps produce the work of Slate's writers for radio, and can also be heard on the program.