Word: hizballah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MILITANT SHI'ITE GROUP HIZBALLAH, DETERmined to do all it can to sabotage ongoing Arab-Israeli peace talks, has scored its best shot in that battle so far. Hizballah operators in Israel's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon detonated a roadside bomb as an Israeli army convoy passed by on patrol, killing five soldiers. The blast -- and Israel's retaliatory attacks on Hizballah and Palestinian positions in Lebanon -- brought new tensions to the table as Arab and Israeli negotiators conducted their seventh round of talks in Washington...
...fighting resulted in the death of 13 Israelis and Lebanese, including civilians on both sides. Hizballah managed to fire a Katyusha rocket into northern Israel, killing a teenage boy, while Israeli air, sea and artillery attacks likewise claimed a handful of innocent lives. At week's end Israeli tanks were poised along the Lebanese border, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah was calling for a general mobilization of his 3,500 fighters...
...second week, Israel continued its artillery and air attacks on villages controlled by Shi'ite Hizballah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. So far, 24 people have been killed and 59 wounded. Fighting began after guerrillas attacked Israel's "security zone" inside the Lebanese border. Arab assailants meanwhile stabbed two Israelis to death, a 15-year-old schoolgirl near Tel Aviv and a rabbi in the Gaza Strip. Both murders sparked anti-Arab riots by Israelis. Defense Minister Moshe Arens ordered the Strip sealed off, restricting 700,000 Palestinians to the area...
...guesses. They would always deny being connected with the Hizballah ((Party of God)), but I don't think it's surprising that kidnappers should lie. We believed Hizballah was the umbrella organization, although it's not a unitary group but an assemblage of factions or family-connected groups. All had different names...
...There was a gentleman called the Haj who was the chief of our particular faction, and I guess one of the senior members of Hizballah. He was actually a very pleasant...