Word: fadlallah
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...second pro-Iranian group, led by Shi'ite clerics and known as Hizballah (Party of God), sprang up around the same time. Its most magnetic leader, though he disclaims sole authority, is Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Richard Helms, a former CIA director and Ambassador to Iran, describes Fadlallah as "Khomeini's spiritual man" in Lebanon. Fadlallah is widely believed to have played at least some role in the rash of bloody anti-Western car bombings, including the 1983 attacks on the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine barracks that claimed a total of 258 American lives. In a recent interview published...
When a car bomb exploded on March 8 in a Beirut suburb, killing more than 80 people and injuring 200, there was little doubt as to the attack's target. The detonation took place just 50 yds. from the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Hizballah (Party of God), a militant pro-Iranian Shi'ite group. Several of Fadlallah's bodyguards were among the victims, but the sheik, who was in a nearby mosque, was uninjured. No one ever claimed responsibility for the incident...