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...fashioning a response." In the murky world of Middle Eastern terrorism, sorting out who is who and who is to blame is a difficult task. U.S. intelligence is notoriously poor in the region. The CIA has been unable to penetrate successfully the clannish and secretive extremist sects. Furthermore, if Berri does manage to deliver the American hostages, the U.S. might find it hard to turn around and kill Lebanese Shi'ites...
...unlikely leader for a band of bearded, wild-shooting, anti- American militiamen. Nabih Berri, 46, is invariably clean-shaven and speaks softly in the precise phrases of the lawyer he was trained to be. He regularly visits a former wife and six children, who live in Dearborn, Mich. He carries a green card entitling him to permanent residency in the U.S., apparently to allow him to visit his American family freely. In Beirut he has often attended the private get-togethers held by U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew for Lebanese factional leaders...
...does all that make Berri, leader of the Shi'ite Amal militia, the ideal man to negotiate release of the American hostages? Not by a long shot. President Reagan declared last week, with a snap of his fingers, that Berri "could be the solution that quickly." Berri, however, seemed closer to the mark when he told CBS's Dan Rather that he was in "a very delicate situation." He seems, indeed, to be a man riding a tiger, a leader scrambling to talk and act as radically as his followers...
Born in 1938, the son of a Lebanese merchant in what was then the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa, Berri moved to Lebanon as a boy. "He was a dynamic student, a very good leader and a passionate person," says lifelong Friend Nasib Fawaz, chairman of the Islamic Center of America in Detroit. "He enjoyed literature, sports and had lots of friends." Berri studied law at the Lebanese University, where he was elected head of the student union for four years. He later practiced law in Beirut without | drawing much attention. Separated from his American wife...
...leader of Amal, Berri at first did little to oppose the Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon. As a Minister in Lebanon's so-called government of National Unity, he participated in negotiations aimed at getting Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon although many Shi'ites felt that Lebanon should not even talk to the Israelis. He and his Amal militiamen helped secure the release of one American and a Frenchman kidnaped by extremists early last year. Berri has continued to attend Lebanese Cabinet meetings, even though many of his followers have wanted nothing to do with the central...