Word: gunmen
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...threat to Waite remained shadowy last week, there was nothing ambiguous about the plight of four Beirut University College teachers, three of them Americans and one an Indian, who were abducted in January by gunmen posing as policemen. A Shi'ite splinter group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine warned Israel that if it did not release 400 jailed guerrillas within a week, the four teachers would be "executed" and "their corpses thrown in the garbage cans of Cyprus...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Gunmen killed an Iranian envoy and foiled a mercy mission yesterday when they fired on two U.N. trucks carrying food to besieged and hungry Palestinian refugees, police reported...
...ambulance managed to enter the camp as the gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons, police said...
Police said the gunmen shot the trucks' tires out. One witness, who declined to be identified by name, said the drivers jumped out and ran for cover...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Two taxi drivers said they saw missing hostage negotiator Terry Waite walking yesterday in a southern Beirut suburb with an escort of about 10 gunmen and four turbaned Shiite Moslem sheiks...