Word: haddad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear and balmy morning. For once, Lebanon's guns had fallen silent. The Easter message of peace and Resurrection was delivered from countless Christian pulpits across the land. The Voice of Hope, the radio station that supports Major Sa'ad Haddad, the leader of the Israeli-supported Christian militia in southern Lebanon, went on the air with readings from the Gospels...
...biblical port of Sidon, a Palestinian stronghold and occasional target of Haddad attacks, hundreds of townspeople had gathered in the squares to enjoy the holiday. Suddenly, at noon, the festive air was broken by a thunderous barrage of artillery fire. Within minutes, 16 shells exploded in the center of the city, blasting cafés, an amusement hall and a Maronite Christian church. Among the dead were 16 backgammon players in a local café. One survivor was seen running along the road screaming, as he carried the severed torso of a youth...
...Easter Massacre, as it was soon called, was Haddad's revenge for the deaths of three of his militiamen, who had been killed by Palestinian land mines. The brutal attack proved to be only the beginning of yet another paroxysm of violence in war-ravaged Lebanon last week. That same afternoon, Israeli fighter-bombers were hammering Palestinian positions in and around Beaufort Castle, the old Crusader ruin on the Litani River, five miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian...
Southern Lebanon. The region south of the Litani River has traditionally been used by Palestinian guerrillas as a staging area for attacks against northern Israel. Israel, in turn, has thrown its support to Haddad's 2,000-man militia and backed it up with deadly bomber attacks. The United Nations 6,000-man peacekeeping force (UNIFIL), dispatched in 1978 to act as a buffer, has often been caught in the bloodletting. Last week UNIFIL Commander Major General William Callaghan met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...thrown its support behind the Lebanese Christians in their conflict first with the Palestinians, more recently with the Syrians. Lebanese leftists and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders charge that Israel is behind a Christian plot to drive the Syrians out of the Bekaa Valley and link up with Major Haddad's Christian contingent in the South. For this reason, the Syrians positioned the bulk of their 22,000 troops in the Lebanon valley...