Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-funded Christian Right scares me. The image of God as a conservative Republican does not sit well...
...latest atrocity was deeply troubling to U.S. officials. It demonstrated that despite an array of new security precautions instituted during the past year, embassies and other facilities are still vulnerable to attack by terrorists willing to sacrifice their lives. The bombing showed that Christian East Beirut, which has until now been far less volatile than Muslim West Beirut, is nowhere near as secure as had been believed. It also indicated that despite a sharp decline in the American military and diplomatic presence in Lebanon over the past seven months, the U.S. remains a favorite target of fanatical Muslim terrorism...
...city, but mainly because East Beirut was considered safer than West Beirut. The annex building was thought to be especially secure because it was located in Aukar, a suburb on the outskirts of the city. The move coincided with the departure from Lebanon of 80 U.S. Marines, after which Christian Lebanese guards trained by U.S. military advisers took over the job of protecting the embassy's exterior. The Administration was clearly relieved to get those 80 Marines out of Lebanon and was convinced that the Lebanese could handle...
...that an explosion shattered the U.S. embassy annex on the outskirts of East Beirut, another act of terror was being carried out 29 miles away in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. In the small Shi'ite Muslim village of Suh-mur, 13 people were murdered by militiamen of the Christian-dominated Army of Southern Lebanon, apparently in retaliation for the earlier killing of four of its soldiers...
...slayings were just another episode in what has become almost routine violence in the southern third of Lebanon, where the largely Shi'ite Muslim population's resentment of both the Israelis and the Christian militia grows by the day. It is an area that has bred small cells of violent fanatics, including, Israeli officials say, adherents of the Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, who claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing. The mounting tension between the occupying Israelis and the Shi'ite population was emphasized by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week when he said...