Word: hizballah
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...dusty hilltop villages populated by Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim supporters of Hizballah, convoys of cars adorned with yellow Hizballah banners wove through the streets this afternoon honking horns at the news of the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Some people stood in the center of main roads handing out fistfuls of sweets to passing motorists, a traditional Arab gesture of celebration. "This is a great victory for the resistance," said Ali Hammoud, 32, in the town of Arab Salim...
...alternative? In the past, regional stability, of a sort, was ensured by U.S. support for extravagantly corrupt and brutal regimes. The high-speed, information-age propaganda and savagery of Osama bin Laden has changed all that, as has the careful provision of social services by groups like Hizballah and Hamas. If the status quo is no longer tenable, as was the case in the Palestinian territories, it's far better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than the gun. The election holds out the possibility of moderation-and also the possibility that the leaders of Hamas...
...abduction turned out to be standard procedure for anyone visiting Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hizballah, who, unbeknownst to Gaghan, had an interest in movies and had decided to grant the screenwriter an audience--even though Gaghan hadn't requested one. Naturally, the near kidnapping found its way into Gaghan's new film Syriana, which dramatizes the politics of oil, terrorism and the Persian Gulf in much the same way Traffic spun entertainment out of addiction, drug policy and the U.S.-Mexico border. If anything, Syriana, which opens Nov. 23, is more ambitious...
Gaghan developed his own connections ("It's exactly like backpacking from hostel to hostel," he says of navigating the social byways of the oil industry) and traveled alone to Beirut. There he was abducted by Hizballah and rewarded with such colorful Fadlallah quotes as "People moved to terrorism are like the people in a school or post office who are pressured, feeling there is no alternative" and "You can go to www .fadlallah org. Gaghan knew by then that an Arabist ex-- CIA agent would be a major character in the aborning film. But as in Traffic, he wanted multiple...
...that spread until it killed three people. Hamas leaders threaten civil war unless the Palestinian Authority backs off. Civil war is unlikely, as is the prospect of Hamas disarming before January elections, as the U.S. urges and Israel insists. The new model for Hamas is the Lebanese group Hizballah, which maintains a large militia while also sitting in the country's government...