Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian refugee camps last month, is still not fully explained. The atrocities have generally been blamed on the Israeli-backed Christian Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated coalition of Christian militias. The Phalangists adamantly reject that charge. As an angry party spokesman told TIME last week: "The Lebanese Forces command vehemently denies any participation in these acts or of ordering any of its units or its individuals to participate. It is deeply regretted that guilt has been assigned to organizations and individuals before official investigations have been completed." That disclaimer contradicted reports by Western journalists and informed Lebanese sources that Christian...
...directed primarily at one man: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a general and hero of the 1973 October War. Simply put, the soldiers are afraid that he will make the I.D.F. a scapegoat for the Beirut massacre. Brigadier General Amram Mitzna, head of the I.D.F.'s Staff and Command College, announced two weeks ago that he was requesting a leave of absence in protest over the killings. (He has since relented.) Mitzna bluntly told Sharon, "I have lost faith-in-you." More than 100 top Israeli officers, including everyone above the rank of brigadier general, met behind closed doors with...
Other disgruntled Iranian officers have reported similar killings by the Islamic Guards, who fight alongside the regular army but are under the command of the Islamic clergy. Last February, a group of guards allegedly captured about 15 Iraqi soldiers in Gilan-e Gharb, an Iranian border town. As the P.O.W.s were being escorted to a makeshift detention center, a wounded Islamic Guard suddenly pointed at one of the Iraqis and yelled, "He killed Hamid!" The accused man was shot to death on the spot. The guards then killed the other prisoners with bullets and bayonets. On several occasions, the guards...
...campus. He gazed out toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most, he said, was that the country boys under his command were against everything Meredith was trying to do, yet they were completely loyal to the American flag. He said, tenderly almost, "I guess it must've been the discipline they'd learned in the military...
...crucial Christian-Israeli planning session, reports TIME Correspondent David Halevy, took place at noon Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Israeli command post in Beirut Port. Present was Israeli Major General Amir Drori, head of the Northern Command, and at least three other top Israeli officers. Also present was Fady Frem, the Lebanese Forces Chief of Staff. Frem was accompanied by Elias Hobeika, the Forces' intelligence chief, who had attended the Staff and Command College in Israel. He was to be the main leader of the groups that went into the camps...