Word: bekaa
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...evidence of an Iranian role in the Dhahran bombing is largely circumstantial, but Riyadh believes it is highly persuasive. Most of the 40 Shi'ites arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack have visited Iran. Some have been in Iranian-supported Hizballah training camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Many traveled between Syria, Iran and the Bekaa on false passports. With the help of FBI forensics experts, the explosive for the blast has been traced to the Lebanese Hizballah. The alleged Shi'ite driver of the truck used in the bombing is in custody. The bombmaker, a Lebanese...
...snubbing the U.S. envoy. U.S. officials speculated that Assad, who has battled health problems for more than a decade, may have been sick. As soon as Christopher's meeting with Assad ended, the secretary traveled in a heavily guarded motorcade to Chtaura, in the heart of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "The secretary felt it was important to be in Lebanon with the Lebanese prime minister," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. "The objective is to get him to sign on to the American plan." In Washington, President Clinton met with Lebanese President...
Step 1: in an attack by Islamic Resistance, the military wing of Hizballah, seven Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Step 2: Israel retaliated with an air attack on Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Two more Israeli soldiers died in a subsequent attack. Last week 395 Palestinians who have been stranded in southern Lebanon since being deported by Israel last December agreed to a plan that would return just under half of them to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip next month. Israel says the remaining deportees will return home this December...
Serious connoisseurs of violence, however, should call Massimo Beyerle in La Spezia, Italy, who is accepting bookings for his October War Zone tour of Lebanon. For $25,000, travelers can spend two weeks hunting for shrapnel in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, visiting the scene of the U.S. Marine barracks blown up in 1983 and dining in a Palestinian refugee camp. Beyerle says he also plans trips to Nicaragua, Somalia and parts of the former Soviet Union...
...could have made [Asaad] pay to join [the coalition]," according to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Barbara Lerner, Baker and the State Department "gave him a cynical, senseless and deadly bribe, winking at his annexation of Lebanon, turning a blind eye to the terrorist networks he controls and letting him export Bekaa Valley opium with impunity...