Word: bassem
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...international waters of the Red Sea on the night of Jan. 3, catching most of the 13 crew members asleep. The Israelis say the crew told them the weapons were loaded onto the Karine A from boats off the Iranian coast in an operation headed by Lebanese Hajj Bassem, an assistant to the notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyah. A leader of the Lebanese militia Hizballah, Mughniyah has close ties to Iran and is blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells Time the captured captain of the ship, Omar Akawi...
...their families or in parking lots on busy streets. No one pursues their killers. With every Israeli hit on a Palestinian leader, the search for traitors intensifies. In the past two weeks five suspects have been lynched; six have been given death sentences. "It's a witch-hunt," says Bassem Eid, a human-rights activist. "There's a huge hatred in society toward the collaborators...