from the south

They have headed towards Damascus from the south.

A veteran detective who once landed in hot water for disguising himself as a deputy and sneaking into Men’s Central Jail has resigned from the South Pasadena Police Department amid recent allegations that he repeatedly gave a Nazi-like salute last year during a training lecture hosted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, according to a news release and internal records.

More than a million Lebanese have been displaced by the fighting, mostly from the south.

Under its terms Israel and Hezbollah will pull out from the south, a traditional Hezbollah stronghold, and the Lebanese military will deploy an additional 5,000 soldiers to the area.

Shortly after the start of the cease-fire at 4 a.m., thousands of cars — many stacked on top with mattresses, suitcases and bags of vegetables — deluged the main highway leading out of Beirut in a reverse exodus that echoed their escape from the south only a few months before.