Word: hizballah
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...fanaticism played a part in the hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221, when gun-toting youths, their eyes staring coldly out of paper masks, riveted the world's attention on a Tehran tarmac for six days. Affiliations were never declared, but the hoodlums were believed to belong to the Hizballah (Party of God), the shadowy Shi'ite group blamed by some U.S. officials for the Beirut annex assault and the 1983 attacks against the U.S. Marine barracks and the main U.S. embassy in Lebanon...
...again, it seemed, the world was held hostage by a small and fanatic band of terrorists bent on wresting political concessions by menacing innocents. The four or five Arab-speaking gunmen who commandeered Kuwait Airways Flight 221 to Karachi, Pakistan, last Tuesday were believed to be linked to the Hizballah (Party of God). This is the same pro-Khomeini Shi'ite group, based in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, that some U.S. officials think may have been responsible for killing more than 300 people in last year's bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks...
While anxiously waiting in Washington, U.S. officials debated whether it was feasible or even wise to plan reprisals against Shi'ite militants in Lebanon. "Whom would we hit and where?" asked a State Department official. Other groups, claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their...
Musawi's headquarters soon attracted other zealots, including the Hizballah (Party of God), a group of fanatical pro-Khomeini Shi'ite clerics. During last year's Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, Musawi was joined by 300 Iranian Revolutionary Guards who had entered the country through Syria with the avowed intention of battling the Israelis. Instead, the Guards stayed in Baalbek to help Musawi consolidate his grip. As the number of Guards grew to some 1,000 during the next few months, they transformed the city and its environs into a miniature Iranian state. They lectured the locals...