Word: hizballah
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TIME: Will Hizballah retaliate for Israel's April 18 bombardment of the U.N. position at Qana, where more than 100 Lebanese civilians were killed...
TIME: Do you exclude any Hizballah action outside southern Lebanon...
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is secretary-general of Hizballah, the Lebanese guerrilla movement that fought a 16-day war with Israel last month. Nasrallah, 36, joined Hizballah shortly after it was founded with Iranian support in 1982. He was elected leader in February 1992, immediately after the assassination by the Israeli military of his friend and predecessor, Sheik Abbas Mussawi. In his first interview with Western correspondents since the fighting began, Nasrallah met with TIME's Beirut bureau chief, Lara Marlowe, and her husband Robert Fisk of Britain's Independent...
Thus on Saturday, April 20, Secretary of State Warren Christopher landed in Jerusalem. His objective was to put a stop to the killing immediately, and then lash together a new, written version of the 1993 ground rules governing the low-level war the Israeli army and Hizballah are waging in and around the "security zone" that Israel occupies in south Lebanon...
...devastated as before, but the damage has been substantial. So has the shock. While the conflict in the south sputtered on year after year, Beirutis had become complacent about it. But in its effort to put pressure on Syria and the Lebanese government, Israel did not merely go after Hizballah guerrillas; it attacked the infrastructure and drove people from their homes by shelling and bombing villages, after warning the residents that they would be killed if they did not leave. At least 160 Lebanese were killed during the operation, and half a million people were displaced...