Word: ghazi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling for an end to the fighting, Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, threatened to move in and silence the guns. "Our forces will promptly shoot at any gunman in sight," he warned. By week's end, however, the casualty count in the continuing factional feud stood at some 250 dead and more than 800 wounded, and still Syria's 7,500 troops remained poised on the sidelines...
...additional 25,000 in north and east Lebanon, Assad has been embarrassed by Glass's kidnaping. Assad's dilemma: fighting the Beirut terrorists would, in effect, mean confronting their chief patron, Iran, which Damascus supports in its protracted war with Iraq. According to Israeli sources, when Syrian Army General Ghazi Kenaan led his troops into Beirut in February, he wanted to curb the power of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite group based in the Lebanese capital that is believed to hold most of the 24 foreign hostages, including nine Americans. But Tehran and Hizballah's spiritual leader, Sheik Mohammed...
...pressure from Syria, Shi'ite Muslim extremists released Ali Osseiran, the son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, a Shi'ite political ally of the Syrians.' But the terrorists did not free Charles Glass, an American television journalist who was abducted a week earlier along with Osseiran. Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, intelligence chief for the 7,500 Syrian troops that occupy most of the Muslim half of Beirut, had said he would free both Glass and Osseiran "at all costs." Late in the week he began restricting the movement of Hizballah activists in the Shi'ite suburbs of Beirut...
...Lebanese Christian radio station said two French hostages were turned over to the Syrian military intelligence chief in Lebanon, Col. Ghazi Kenaan, at the Bekaa Valley town of Anjar in preparation for their release along with the six Americans...
...Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine have been moved to Anjar. They are in Ghazi Kenaan's custody within the frame of a plan to release them along with six American hostages," Voice of Lebanon said...