Word: fundamentalistism
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...victims were accused of belonging to an extreme antigovernment Muslim fundamentalist group said to have plotted to assassinate selected Soviet advisers in Libya and members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's revolutionary committees. Exiled Libyans, however, claim the soldiers were executed for taking part in a mutiny protesting against Gaddafi's recent armed intervention in Chad...
...terrorist factions that have taken captives, Berri said he would seek freedom for all 24 foreign hostages kidnaped during the past two years. Doubts were immediately raised, however, about Berri's chances of success. His Syrian-backed Amal militia is a bitter rival of the Iran-supported Shi'ite fundamentalist groups that are believed to hold most of the hostages...
Torricelli, just back from a trip to Iraq, said, "The security of our country and of the entire western world is very much at issue today. There is a very real threat the Arab world could be united under this [Iranian] fundamentalist revolution...
...with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
Whatever their immediate motives, Lebanon's Shi'ite terrorists, who revere Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and want to turn Lebanon into a fundamentalist Muslim state, have embarked on an orgy of abductions since the beginning of the year. Of the 24 foreign captives now being held in Lebanon, eight are Americans, six Frenchmen and two West Germans. Recent victims include two Saudi Arabians, a sign that the terrorists may be trying to pressure the Saudis to moderate their support for Iraq in its six-year-old war with Iran...