Word: beirutization
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After 241 American troops on a pointless mission in Beirut were killed by a suicide bomber in 1983, the Reagan Administration struggled to draw lessons from the disaster. The next year, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger offered a checklist for evaluating the future uses of military forces abroad. Such actions should be necessary to protect vital national interests, he advised, and permit the use of powerful force to achieve a decisive victory. The objective must be clear and attainable by military means, and it must be supported by Congress and the people...
...investigators are now investigating whether the two new suspects had targeted Drug Enforcement Administration offices in the Murrah building. A Lebanese source close to Iranian radicals and their Lebanese allies in Hizballah toldTIME Beirut correspondent Lara Marlowehe was "certain" that Islamists had not carried out the Oklahoma bombing: "They may have used Middle Easterners or Islamists to do it -- a lot of people in this part of the world known how to make car bombs -- but the real reason was drugs...
Ironically, Marlowe feels at home in Algeria. It reminds her of Beirut, where she lives with her husband Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper the Independent. "Like Lebanon," she says, "Algeria is marked by French as well as Arab culture. Both countries have been tugged back and forth, and the resulting identity crises led in both cases...
Lighthouse TV is on a war footing. The station, owned and operated by the Lebanese Hizballah-or Party of God-broadcasts from a dusty cellar in Beirut's southern suburbs. "We own a beautiful new building nearby," says Lighthouse's general manager, Mohammed Afif Ahmad, 37. "We don't use it because the Israelis might bomb...
...Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing his fundamentalist captors that he was a U.S. narcotics agent fighting evil drugs. ``You've got to be your own life-support system,'' says John F. Quinn, who once worked as a NOC officer in Tokyo collecting economic intelligence...