Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political concessions by menacing innocents. The four or five Arab-speaking gunmen who commandeered Kuwait Airways Flight 221 to Karachi, Pakistan, last Tuesday were believed to be linked to the Hizballah (Party of God). This is the same pro-Khomeini Shi'ite group, based in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, that some U.S. officials think may have been responsible for killing more than 300 people in last year's bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut. Bombers also hit the U.S. embassy and other targets in Kuwait on Dec. 12, 1983, and Kuwaiti officials...
...creation of a Palestinian homeland. When a group of Arafat's followers broke away in May 1983, it became clear that the dispute was no longer just about policies; it was also about Arafat. The rebels were led by Abu Mousa, a former commander in the Bekaa Valley, who was upset over the promotion of two comrades. Syria's Assad, eager to seize control of the Palestinian movement, fanned the revolt by giving Abu Mousa's troops financial aid and a safe haven in eastern Lebanon. "The Syrians want Arafat's head," recently explained Abu Iyad...
...culprits are not easy to identify, let alone punish. Most experts believe the name Islamic Jihad is a sort of catchword used by several fanatical Shi'ite Muslim groups inspired by Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and affiliated with Iranian Revolutionary Guards based in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The terrorists seem to be linked to the ruling Shi'ite hierarchy in Iran or to a segment of it. Because the groups operate out of an area that is controlled by Syria, it has been assumed that Damascus was encouraging their terrorist activities, but this is probably...
...Multi-National Force last winter, Syria has been the dominant power in Lebanon and has been trying to bring an end to that country's factional fighting. In the past six months there have been several clashes between the Iranian guards and Syrian troops in the Bekaa Valley. In the latest fight, in early September, Syria brought in tanks and forced the guards to return to their camps outside the ancient city of Baalbek. That clash was promptly followed by a surprise visit to Syria by Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i, who reportedly met with the guards...
Prime Minister Rashid Karami's hopes for extending the peace plan to other parts of Lebanon were further battered last week when two Israeli air force jets destroyed several buildings in the Bekaa Valley, killing or wounding at least 100. The structures were being used, an Israeli spokesman said, as a departure point for attacks by Palestinian guerrillas against Israeli soldiers...