Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Lebanon War never betray Hezbollah and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. On 21 July, Lebanese defense minister Elias Murr said that the Lebanese army would fight any ground invasion by Israel. On 25 July, the Center for Democracy in Lebanon, a Lebanese group which was involved in the Cedar Revolution movement, called for an immediate ceasefire and proposed a Roadmap to Normalization. At the 26 July Rome Conference, Prime Minister Siniora put forward a seven-point peace plan that has become known as the Siniora Plan. It consisted of a mutual release of prisoners; Israeli troops withdrawing to the demarcated frontier and allowing
1995 kidnapping of Western tourists in Kashmir 1995 kidnapping of Western tourists in Kashmir Six Western tourists were kidnapped by Al-Faran, a Kashmiri Islamist militant organisation from the Liddarwat area of Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on 4 July 1995. In 1989, an armed insurgency started in Jammu and Kashmir. The six victims included two British tourists, Keith Mangan (from Middlesbrough) and Paul Wells; two Americans, John Childs of Simsbury, Connecticut and Donald Hutchings of Spokane, Washington; a German, Dirk Hasert; and a Norwegian, Hans Christian Ostrø. Mangan's and Hutchings' wives were left behind by the kidnappers as their husbands were abducted. A