Word: hizballah
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Likewise, some of the familiar groups involved in terror, like Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian militants of Hamas, seem less suspect this time, since both now largely restrict their attacks to Israeli targets. But little dissident cells keep proliferating, and for many of them America is a generalized object of their hatred. A previously unknown group calling itself the Liberation Army of the Islamic Shrines phoned the Cairo office of al-Hayat newspaper to claim responsibility after the blast but offered no information to back up its claim. Investigators are also looking at a threat published in the same...
Soon, a rescue squad arrived by helicopter. Under heavy fire from Hizballah and Amal militiamen, as well as Lebanese army troops, the team evacuated all the commandos but one, who could not be found. An incoming mortar shell killed one of the rescuers, a doctor. A Lebanese woman and child caught in the cross fire were also killed, and six other civilians were injured, as were six Lebanese militiamen and two army soldiers...
...dead and wounded are always brought home, and the decision to leave someone went all the way up to the Defense Minister and the military Chief of Staff. The Israelis concluded that the soldier, who had been carrying explosives, must have been blown to bits. Later someone from Hizballah found parts of his body and offered to trade them for Arab prisoners held by Israel...
...house in Insariyeh and is influential in Amal, one of the Shi'ite militia groups. Israel has carried out such kidnappings before, but military insiders downplayed this theory. They hinted instead that the mission was to plant explosive devices in the area, targeted either at a nearby Hizballah post or an Amal encampment...
...Israeli government is mystified as to how the invasion was discovered. One possibility is that Hizballah or Amal fighters spotted the commandos early on and quickly set up the ambush. But survivors say the assault seemed well planned, lending weight to the theory that the top-secret mission had been compromised, perhaps by a Lebanese collaborator used by Israel in the operation...