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Word: hizballah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atrocities goes back far, highlighted by the 1982 massacre of 20,000 of his own people in the rebellious town of Hama. But put that aside. Put aside the fact that Damascus is headquarters for a dozen terrorist groups, principal Arab supporter of Iran, controller of Lebanon's Hizballah terrorists (who last month launched rockets into Israel in support of the bus bombing that killed 23 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing the Thugs | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Another warning of danger outside the wire-rimmed islet of peace sounded in the north, where militiamen, presumably from the Muslim extremist group Hizballah, in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israeli troops. And in the Gaza Strip the Palestine Liberation Organization's leader Yasser Arafat, with whom Israel made peace last year, called a general strike. He was protesting a clause in the treaty that lends weight to Jordan's claim to protect Jerusalem's Muslim holy places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Still No Sale | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors, has so far ended up with just a few tidbits, including his own dispatches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TRUTH HELD HOSTAGE | 9/22/1994 | See Source »

...ebbing. "Carlos," says Paul Wilkinson, an expert on terrorism at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "symbolized a terrorism of the extreme left which has almost died out in Europe." Carlos and his Soviet, Marxist and leftist Palestinian allies represent failed ideologies. The inheritors today are nameless Islamic extremists from Hizballah, Hamas and their sponsors -- everyone thinks first of Iran as chief sponsor -- who see themselves as the force of the future in the Middle East. While their cause is the same -- derailing the peace process and destroying Israel -- the Islamists do not need a secular professional like Carlos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROLIFERATION: Formula for Terror | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...still unanswered because no deals outside police scams have come to light. Even so, the price of enough plutonium to make a bomb would have to be in the millions of dollars or tens of millions. It is doubtful that any terrorist group has that kind of financing. Even Hizballah, the extremist group most directly linked to a state sponsor, cannot expect to receive tens of millions for its own purchases from an Iran that is struggling to arm itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROLIFERATION: Formula for Terror | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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