Word: dawa
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...hopeful trends do little to help the remaining hostages. Some Administration officials are pessimistic about the prospects for a deal as long as one of Hizballah's priorities remains the release of 15 members of a closely affiliated Shi'ite fundamentalist group called Al Dawa (the Call). The 15 are imprisoned in Kuwait for a series of 1983 bomb attacks on the U.S. and French embassies there. Kuwait has stoutly refused Al Dawa's demands for the release of the prisoners, some of whom are relatives of Hizballah leaders. Said a close Bush adviser: "There's a family tie there...
...nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
There were vague indications that Iran might have played a role in Weir's sudden release. His kidnapers have been linked to al Dawa, a militant pro- Iranian party with followers in Lebanon, which has insistently demanded freedom for the prisoners in Kuwait. There was also speculation that Weir might have been held for a time in Iran. To that, U.S. spokesmen responded with a frosty "No comment." But top Administration officials clearly indicated that Syria had no part in Weir's release, despite the prominent role Damascus played in securing the freedom of the TWA hijack victims. A senior...
Some Washington officials speculate that at least some of the kidnapings were the work of Al Dawa (the Call), an Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalist group that is thought to have perpetrated the December 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and other targets in Kuwait. This would explain offers to free at least some of the Americans in exchange for the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the bombings. But many Western diplomats in Beirut believe that another Shi'ite organization, called Hizballah (Party of God), might also be holding the Americans. Callers to Western news agencies...
Five of the condemned men are Shi'ite Muslims who belong to Iraq's underground and Iran-backed Al Dawa Party. Committed to toppling the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, they plotted the attacks to punish Kuwait, France and the U.S. for allegedly supporting Iraq in its 42-month war against Iran. Yet the attempt proved to be both ill-managed and ill-starred. Most of the blast from a car bomb outside the French embassy was absorbed by a thick brick wall. Another car bomb, meant to wreck a local petrochemical complex, exploded outside the compound...