Word: beirutization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks has aroused many memories and a considerable feeling of deja vu. As soon as Cairo-based Correspondent John Borrell heard the news, he headed for Algiers, where he was able to interview many of the hostages who had been released. But when Flight 847 suddenly took off for Beirut again, Borrell found himself returning to that dangerous and frustrating city, which he had left only two months ago after an 18-month assignment. To get to Beirut, Borrell flew first to Larnaca, Cyprus, then boarded a ferry to Junieh, a small port just north of Beirut. After finally arriving...
AMERICA, contrary to increasingly popular rhetoric in this country, is not in any way responsible for the taking of hostages now held in Beirut. We are not responsible for the stone-age mentality of Shiite militiamen, nor are we responsible for uncontrolled religious wars in the battle-torn region. We must see these actors as they really are, as calculating, anti-Senitic terrorists, not as victims of U.S. foreign policy as some would like to believe. Those responsible for the hijacking of TWA flight 847 should be held fully accountable without hesitation and procrastination. We must not allow the hijackers...
...refuse to recognize that Moslems and Christians have fought in the Middle East since the beginning of history? In 1983, our entrance into then-Christian-controlled Lebanon was in a peace-keeping capacity. We tried to end the bitter war which threatened Israel, flattened Beirut and advanced Syria's goal of geographical expansion into "Greater Syria," a goal which happens to include domination of present-day Israel. After terrorists killed 241 U.S. servicemen and we pulled out of Beirut, after Israel pulled out of the region, the fighting between Christians and Moslems continued as fiercely as ever. It will continue...
...bomb devastates the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Another car bomb obliterates the Marine barracks outside Beirut Airport. Assassins cut down the president of the American University of Beirut. A car bomb wrecks the American embassy annex in East Beirut. After each of these terrorist attacks, and many others, the phone rings in a news agency somewhere in the Middle East and an anonymous caller claims responsibility for the carnage in the name of Islamic Jihad...
Radical Shi'ite factions settled into a virtual viper's nest in Baalbek, an ancient city in the Bekaa Valley 40 miles east of Beirut. There a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...