Word: hizballah
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...million was paid out from frozen funds of Cuba and Iran. Relatives of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down by the Cuban air force in 1996 won $97 million, and the family of Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old New Jersey student killed in 1995 in a Hizballah attack in the Gaza Strip, got $22 million...
Bakri, who has raised funds for Hamas and Hizballah, was banned from university campuses but otherwise left undisturbed. In the days after Sept. 11, al-Muhajiroun issued leaflets welcoming the attacks, but interviewed last week at his office in a modern north London business park, Bakri was moderate in tone. He condemned the terrorist attacks and said he had never met bin Laden, and did not even always agree with his views...
...international dimensions. Both sides stand to gain from better relations. For Iran, support for an anti-terrorism coalition could get sanctions lifted and frozen assets released. In exchange, Washington would expect Iran to provide valuable intelligence on the Taliban and to stop supporting extremist groups like Hamas and Hizballah. Not least, Khatami's moral authority in the Islamic world could help dampen any anti-Western backlash in the wake of military attacks on Afghanistan...
...competing forces within the country's political and religious élite. Since the attacks, many reformists have pushed to take advantage of the changed diplomatic landscape to improve ties with the U.S. Yet some within the reform camp, notably the hard-core left-wing militants who helped establish Hizballah, are standing their anti-American ground. Even among right-wing clerics there is disagreement: fundamentalists decry American hypocrisy and arrogance, but pragmatists see the wisdom of temperance. As Taha Hashemi, editor of the daily Entekhab and one of Khamenei's closest advisers, observed just days before Khamenei's rebuff...
LEBANON Groups: Hizballah, Asbat al-Asnar...