Word: ite
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...retaliation. Asked about the matter, President Reagan said flatly, "I can't discuss that." The main problem is that the culprits are not easy to identify, let alone punish. Most experts believe the name Islamic Jihad is a sort of catchword used by several fanatical Shi'ite Muslim groups inspired by Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and affiliated with Iranian Revolutionary Guards based in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The terrorists seem to be linked to the ruling Shi'ite hierarchy in Iran or to a segment of it. Because the groups operate...
...French embassies and four other facilities in Kuwait are bombed; six killed. Shi'ite terrorists possibly linked to those in Lebanon are blamed...
...Israeli-occupied south, Shi'ite resentment runs deep...
...same morning that an explosion shattered the U.S. embassy annex on the outskirts of East Beirut, another act of terror was being carried out 29 miles away in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon. In the small Shi'ite Muslim village of Suh-mur, 13 people were murdered by militiamen of the Christian-dominated Army of Southern Lebanon, apparently in retaliation for the earlier killing of four of its soldiers...
...addition, Salimi and another cashiered minister belong to an ultraconservative Shi'ite Muslim group that has been critical of Khomeini's policies. The shake-up apparently was engineered by Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who believes that such dissent is divisive. Rafsanjani's maneuver may show that in the rivalry between him and President Seyed Ali Khamenei, Rafsanjani is winning. "He has Khomeini's ear," said a senior Iranian official. "By forcing a Cabinet reshuffle, he just demonstrated who is boss...