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Mon 04 Apr 2007Olmert awaits report on war in LebanonMIDDLE EAST:A commission examining the way the Israeli government and armed forces waged last year's Lebanon war is to release an interim report today that could determine prime minister Ehud Olmert's political future.The five-member panel, appointed by the government and headed by former supreme court justice Eliyahu Winograd, said the interim report would contain an analysis of the period between Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation until the war against Hizbullah guerrillas was launched in mid-July 2006; and an analysis of the decision to embark on a Lebanon campaign after Hizbullah gunmen captured two soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid on July 12th and events in the first six days of fighting.