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Waite's mission was not made easier by the explosion of renewed violence in Lebanon. Flying cover for a routine patrol in the Bekaa Valley, Israeli F-15s shot down two threatening Syrian MiG-23Ss over Syrian territory. In West Beirut, tanks and rockets were being used in the bitter fighting between the Druze militia of Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and its erstwhile ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri. By Friday, police estimated that 44 people had been killed and 200 wounded...
Israel last week accused Syria's President Haffez Assad of replacing Soviet SA-6 and SA-8 antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Syria had deployed such weapons there in 1981, only to have them destroyed by the Israelis during their 1982 invasion. The redeployment into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley was made late in November after Israeli war planes had shot down two Syrian jets over Syria. An Israeli army spokesman disclosed the missile move publicly on Dec. 15. Other Israeli officials contended that the U.S. had secretly persuaded Assad to withdraw them. Assad did so but, showing his muscle...
...Libya and that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is picking up the estimated $14 million annual tab for Abu Nidal's organization, some Western intelligence agencies note that the Fatah Revolutionary Council retains an office in Damascus as well as a training camp in Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley...
...past several weeks of extraordinary activity culminated in Monday’s announcement that Syria would withdraw its troops in a two-stage process starting immediately. Syrian troops appear so far to be honoring the agreement and are now in the process of pulling back to the Bekaa valley in Eastern Lebanon where they will await another accord that will delineate their final withdrawal. Hopefully negotiations will begin soon after the March 31 deadline that Syria has laid out for relocation of its troops to the valley, and will be successful in ridding Lebanon of its occupiers...
...Hizballah on Tuesday made clear that it will have a major say in ordering a post-Syrian Lebanon, even though right now Syria's departure is far from a done deal. Under overwhelming international pressure, Syria on Monday announced that it would withdraw its troops into the eastern Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border, pending a full withdrawal at an unspecified later date. That's hardly sufficient to satisfy the demands of the Lebanese opposition groups, backed by the United States, for a complete withdrawal not only of Syria's 14,000 uniformed troops, but more importantly to remove...