Word: hizballah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precision raid. Israeli commandos landed by helicopter outside the southern Lebanese town of Gibchite early Friday morning. They slipped through the dark to their target: an apartment on the eastern edge of town belonging to Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, chief military commander of the southern Lebanese wing of Hizballah (Party of God), the fundamentalist Shi'ite group with close ties to Iran. The Israelis burst in, locked up Obeid's wife and children, and carried Obeid and two assistants off to Israel...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...
...kidnapers specifically wanted Terry Anderson. Fatefully, perhaps, the reporter advertised his availability the day before his capture, when he ventured into Beirut's southern suburbs to quiz Hizballah spiritual leader Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. But Anderson's colleagues at the Associated Press believe he may have put himself on Hizballah's blacklist as far back as 1983, when he traveled to their stronghold in Baalbek to grill Shi'ite leaders about the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
...high school dropout, he excelled at terrorism; his boldness and quick grasp of explosives and weaponry impressed his commanders. But he fell out with Fatah leaders and in 1982, when Israeli troops invaded Lebanon and occupied his village, Teir Debbe, Mughniyah joined the newly formed and more radical Hizballah (Party of God). He took to wearing religious garb even as he recruited activists and professionals to the Shi'ite cause. He rose quickly to the top of the organization, and as security chief, Mughniyah is thought to be the group's most powerful figure. He continues to hold the Westerners...
Mughniyah seems content to bide his time until the U.S. breaks. But he has not tired of finding ways to press Hizballah's confrontation with the West. Britain's Guardian newspaper reported last month that he was busy organizing mass demonstrations in Lebanon. The cause: demanding Salman Rushdie's death for writing The Satanic Verses...