Word: hizballah
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...rendezvous with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the turbaned leader of Hizballah, the time and place are kept secret. Eventually you are driven into a barricaded neighborhood protected by bearded militiamen and hustled into an apartment block with mirrored windows. Wallets, key chains, and even belts are removed from you and taken away for inspection. Finally you are seated in a room dominated by an acrylic painting of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. At the far end is Hizballah's yellow banner, the words "Islamic Revolution of Lebanon" written in Arabic beneath the silhouette of a holy warrior's rifle...
...Party of God has come a long way since its founding in 1982, when even most Lebanese considered it nothing more than the fanatical stalking horse of revolutionary Iran. Having since sacrificed 1,375 "martyrs" in the fight against Israel's 22-year-old occupation of southern Lebanon, Hizballah has seen its profile in Lebanon, even among many Christians, transformed into that of a heroic resistance army...
With Israel promising a final troop withdrawal by July, Hizballah is being hailed for doing what Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and Palestinians have never done: driving Israeli soldiers off Arab land by force. Hizballah leaders can barely contain their eagerness for the day when their fighters, crying "God is great!," will march into the buffer strip along the southern Lebanese border that Israel calls the Security Zone. The Lebanese postal service is issuing stamps in honor of the jihad. And though still on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, accused in the suicide bombings of U.S. diplomats and military...
...least one foreign power is shedding no tears over the faltering Middle East peace process. Last fall, Administration sources tell TIME, Iran called leaders of the terrorist groups HIZBALLAH, HAMAS and PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD to Tehran and urged them to coordinate their attacks against Israel in the hope of derailing then promising peace overtures. "They were pulling together their terrorist friends to try to destroy the process," says an Administration official...
...Lebanon-based Hizballah, a long-time Iranian ally, is believed to be acting as intermediary to the Palestinian groups Hamas and P.I.J., which have traditionally had little contact with either Hizballah or Tehran. In recent weeks fighting has flared in southern Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hizballah guerrillas. Administration hawks say the attacks show that Iran remains committed to state-sponsored terrorism despite progress by reformers aligned with President MOHAMMED KHATAMI. Sources say the Iranian intelligence service, MOIS, which had stepped away from involvement with terrorists, has re-entered the fray by allowing its elite KUDZ force--special teams that...