Word: beirutization
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Marine headquarters in Beirut, Coughlin became increasingly convinced that authorities at Lejeune were seriously underestimating the camp's vulnerability to terrorism. "Our concern was that there was no evidence of any change in security at Camp Lejeune," explained Coughlin...
...just inside the Syrian border, from where they make frequent trips into Lebanon to train Shi'ite terrorists. The government refuses to acknowledge ties with Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops in Beirut last October, as well as other Middle Eastern attacks, but Tehran does not hesitate to applaud the terrorists' acts. The October bombing was celebrated in Iran as "the action of patriotic heroes...
Assad could well afford the gesture. After months of chaos and bloodshed, Syria was in a position to exercise de facto suzerainty over much of Lebanon. In contrast, the Reagan Administration, its Marine contingent withdrawn to the safety of the U.S. flotilla off the shores of Beirut, was reduced to the role of passive spectator...
...principle before leaving for Damascus. In return Assad was prepared to support Gemayel's continuation in office, albeit within a restructured Lebanese political system that would give more power to the Druze and Shi'ite Muslim opposition groups that have been wreaking havoc in the streets of Beirut...
...Gemayel government was a dead letter. They also paid an additional price for the continuing Israeli occupation: early in the week, two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Shi'ite Muslim village of Arab Salmi, bringing the total number of Israeli fatalities in Lebanon to 571. Within shattered Beirut, the 1,250 French troops who are all that remain of the four-nation Multi-National Force were told that their departure was probably imminent after the Soviet Union vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for their replacement by a U.N peace-keeping force. In an austere communiqu...