Word: amal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel indicate yesterday it was willing to discuss the swap of an Israeli airman missing in Lebanon for the release of the 400 Arab prisoner, a proposal advanced Saturday by Nabih Berri, head of the main Shiite Amal militia and Lebanon's justice minister...
...this week, the country was suddenly caught up in a looming military crisis. After Israeli air and naval forces attacked Palestinian positions near the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon in retaliation for a terrorist attack near Jerusalem's Western Wall, an Israeli pilot was captured by the Shi'ite Amal militia. At week's end, as Israeli troop strength was beefed up on the Lebanese border, the fragile national unity government in Jerusalem hastily closed ranks and angrily demanded the captive flyer's return. "We must remain alert," declared Shamir. "There must be no wavering...
...second flyer was not so lucky. He was captured almost immediately by an Amal militiaman, Rafiq Ibrahim, 19. "I jumped out of the bush and ordered him to stick his hands up," Ibrahim later reported. "He raised only one arm, so I shouted at him and gestured by my M-16 rifle for him to raise his other hand. His right arm was broken." Amal officials, who have quietly aided Israel by harassing Palestinian fighters in southern Lebanon, were at first reluctant to admit to the capture, lest it lead to an Israeli rescue operation. They later said the pilot...
Israeli authorities quickly warned Amal against turning the pilot over to Syrian forces in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who had helped arrange the release of the 39 TWA hostages in June 1985, was expected to use the captured pilot as a bargaining chip in his efforts to free some 250 Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas believed held in a jail near the border by the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli army's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid, delcared, "We will not rest until we have recovered the missing man." The events in Lebanon almost...
...Shiite Moslem militia commander said the two pilots bailed out and landed in an olive grove, one alive and one dead. Abu Jamil Ghaddar of the Amal militia said the survivor was captured in the grove between Siroubieh and Anqoun, suburbs of this city 25 miles south of Beirut...