Word: beirutization
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That and a U.S. retreat. Bin Laden has repeatedly described Americans as easily scared into submission. He cites the pullout of U.S. troops from Beirut after a 1983 truck bombing there killed 241 Marines, and the withdrawal from Somalia after 18 U.S. soldiers died there. He plainly thinks a large enough number of attacks will lead the U.S. to withdraw entirely from the Arab world and even fall apart as a nation. He connects the crumbling of the Soviet Union to Moscow's defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of local Muslim rebels he aided. In 1998, bin Laden told...
...know: Eustace is from England, home of other Beirut allstars, Iggy Pop, Baby Spice and the Queen...
With the popularity of baseball cards in decline, FM has decided to change the game a little and debut a set of Beirut All-Star Trading Cards. Gone are the batting averages and runs batted in, the silly pictures of overweight men in tight tight pants, and the Barbie doll pink bubble gum. Beirut is a much simpler game. Each game requires two stoic players battling for no real reason except the need to get tipsy, a tiny white ball, a long crusty table and the will...
...only killed Palestinians to avenge attacks like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre but went after operational brains as well. In 1973 an Israeli commando team, which included then-future Prime Minister Ehud Barak--disguised as a woman--wiped out several top Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in a raid in Beirut. The Israelis are still at it. A missile attack last month killed Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as he sat at his desk in Ramallah...
...Eulogy). DIED. SAAD MOURTADA, 78, diplomat who became Egypt's first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice...