Word: hizballah
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...example, in 2000, Hizballah captured three soldiers. For two to three years, we didn't know if they were alive or dead. I contacted the soldiers' families to comfort them and be an example that a person could survive that situation. What we didn't know was that those soldiers had already been killed...
Despite the furious diplomatic debate over how and in what sequence it will be implemented, the peace plan for Lebanon requires the following: Israeli forces will withdraw; an international force will be deployed in southern Lebanon; Hizballah will be disarmed; and protection of the border will be handed over to the Lebanese Army...
...makeup and capability of the Lebanese Army render it unthinkable, say military observers and government officials, for it to forcibly disarm Hizballah or take control of southern Lebanon. More than one third of the army's personnel is Shi'ite, drawn from a community in which Hizballah is overwhelmingly popular. And as long as it is the only force fighting the Israelis inside Lebanon, Hizballah's support would be even wider, making it even less likely that the government could order the Army to move against it. "The Lebanese Army will never be given any orders to disarm any militia...
...Instead, government officials say, the only way that the Lebanese Army would deploy to the south would be as part of a political framework agreed to by Hizballah. On present indications, that would require a cease-fire agreement that included a prisoner exchange and settling of border disputes. The Lebanese Army could then work with an international force to ensure that Hizballah abided by the cease-fire, and that no new militias move into southern Lebanon as the PLO did in the 1970s and 1980s. "You can't just throw a force down into southern Lebanon and have it create...
...France and the U.S. are currently butting heads over the sequencing of a peace process - Lebanon's view, requiring a deal with Hizballah as a precondition for deployment, appears to be closer to that of France - and the outcome of that debate may be dictated by events on the battlefield...