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None of the options are appealing. The U.S. could, for example, bomb a known training camp for terrorists in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, as Israel has done. Secretary of State George Shultz has portrayed Israel as a model of effective counterterrorist action. But terrorists are adept at surrounding themselves with innocent civilians, some of whom could be killed in a retaliatory raid. Moreover, the deterrent effect is questionable. Terrorists, including members of Islamic Jihad, the Shi'ite Muslim group thought to be responsible for the hijacking, are often fanatics who place as little value on their own lives...
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...
...order came over the radio: the last Israeli soldiers on 6,450-ft. Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks!" A whoop rose from the troops, and with that the Israeli army began withdrawing from the southeast sector of Lebanon, where 8,000 Israeli soldiers had faced 30,000 Syrians since the 1982 Israeli invasion...
...years, last month appeared to have joined the growing list of Westerners abducted by Islamic fundamentalists. A few days later his car was found, along with a note claiming that he was the captive of a previously unheard-of organization. Last week a farmer in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley stumbled upon the priest's decomposing body at the bottom of a ravine. An autopsy showed that he had been strangled shortly after his capture, and police theorized that the kidnaping was the work of robbers rather than of any known Islamic political group. Father Kluiters was the first kidnap...
...Syrians led him to an army encampment near Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Then he was taken to a Syrian intelligence office, where he described his capture by a lone gunman on the streets of Beirut last March 7. Next Levin was driven to the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus, where he was turned over to William Eagleton, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus. Said Levin, as tears rolled down his cheeks: "The Orwellian year of 1984 was not a very good one for me, but 1985 is starting out a hell of a lot better...