Word: hizballah
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Israeli fighter jets and helicopter gunships attacked a training camp for Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon in a raid that killed nearly four dozen people -- most of them teenage recruits. Israel justified the raid as self-defense, saying that the victims were soon to join Hizballah's fight against Israel in south Lebanon. The guerrillas retaliated by firing two dozen rockets into northern Israel, which caused no casualties...
...rounded up five of the eight suspected perpetrators and have had them on trial in Berlin since last October. Three others are still at large. The alleged leader, Kazem Darabi, a 34-year-old importer-exporter, worked for years as the German-based link between Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah, according to the German prosecutors. The indictment identifies him as "an agent of the Iranian intelligence service VEVAK" and a Revolutionary Guards member. His assignment, assert German prosecutors, was to "liquidate" the Kurd leader as part of a "persecution strategy of the Iranian minister for intelligence and security against...
Paris -- Iran, which has sought to project a more moderate image, is actually reaffirming its ties with terrorist organizations worldwide. Western intelligence sources say Iran has been strengthening its relations with such groups as the Japanese Red Army, the Lebanese Hizballah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Sources also say representatives of several international terrorist groups met a few weeks ago in Tehran with high-ranking Iranian intelligence officials. High on the agenda: disruption of the Middle East peace process...
BEIRUT WAS ALREADY AN INTERNAtional synonym for homegrown anarchy when it added hostage taking as a cottage industry. Between 1984 and 1992, dozens of Westerners became part of the inventory. Most were the property of various militias with ties to Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God backed by Iran...
Because Waite frequently met with government officials, Hizballah suspected him of spying. But then the group thought nearly all Westerners in the Middle East who had pens, cameras or pulpits had espionage on their mind. Waite writes that North requested him to ask his Beirut contacts if the kidnappers wanted money. No, reported the churchman; Hizballah wanted the freedom of militant Shi'ites sentenced to death in Kuwait...