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...suspected Hizballah leadership meeting. Such is the bravado of the Islamic fundamentalist leader, who is hailed throughout the Arab world for fighting Israel while other Arab leaders sit on their hands. He gets credit not only for standing up to Israel right now but also for leading a guerrilla war that was widely seen as driving Israeli forces out of Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation. Becoming resistance heroes helped Hizballah overcome a dodgy past: it is believed to have launched violent attacks during the 1980s ranging from the kidnapping of Americans in Beirut to the bombing...
...nowhere a security agent appeared on a motorcycle," she recalls. "One time my digital camera was taken and photos deleted." Even so, she found her subjects to be gracious and accommodating, often permitting a 15-min. session to stretch into 12 hours. One man she met was a former guerrilla who had lost an arm, a leg and part of his sight in a firefight with Israeli soldiers; his brother died as well. "I lay there for four hours," he recalled. "When I felt I would be martyred, I felt true happiness. I have never felt that again...
...many observers in the Western world, Hizballah, the Lebanese guerrilla group battling Israel, is a mere puppet of Iran. Some are convinced that Hizballah triggered the crisis on Tehran's orders to divert world attention away from Iran's controversial nuclear plans. But client states are not necessarily as docile as one might think. Just as Israel sometimes takes actions that surprise (and even displease) the U.S., Hizballah does things Iran has neither ordered up nor necessarily approves...
...race a dead heat and a published survey gave him a 4-point lead, Reed was assuring friends he would pull out a victory by doing what he had always done better than anyone else: turn out the vote by pinpointing with extreme efficiency the religious conservatives. "I do guerrilla warfare," Reed once boasted to a reporter, describing how he ambushed his enemies as a political operative. "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag." So imagine everyone's surprise, in Washington and Atlanta, when...
...reputation he only halfheartedly tried to knock down. He reveled in the dichotomy of talking about using guerrilla tactics--of garroting his opponents and leaving them to die, "raking in the dough" and blitzing the other side with negative ads--to advance pro-family candidates and agendas. Whenever he identified someone who understood the dark side of politics, Reed would say approvingly, "He gets the joke." It's what drew political reporters to Reed: we appreciated him in the same way we do James Carville and Harold Ickes on the Democratic side, or Lee Atwater and the reigning master, Karl...