IRISH DEFENCE MINISTER MICHAEL SMITH AND CHIEF OF STAFF LIEUTENANT GENERAL COLM MANGAN LOOK AT ...,...

IRISH DEFENCE MINISTER MICHAEL SMITH AND CHIEF OF STAFF LIEUTENANT GENERAL COLM MANGAN LOOK AT ROMAN RUINS IN CENTRAL BEIRUT. Irish Defence Minister Michael Smith (L) and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Colm Mangan look at Roman ruins in central Beirut November 13, 2001. The Irish officials arrived in Lebanon to oversee the departure of their batallion in the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. The Irish were dispatched to south Lebanon when Israel occupied it in 1978 and sufftered 43 deaths since. The United Nations have been decreasing the number of its peacekeepers in south Lebanon after Israel pulled out last year. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi