Word: ite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admit to just 2,000 to 3,000 executions, but they have nonetheless systematically eliminated every group that does not conform to their beliefs. Last May they forced the Tudeh Communist Party to denounce itself publicly and disband. In August they suspended the Hojjatieh Society, an esoteric Shi'ite Muslim splinter group that refuses to interpret the Koran in the fashion approved by the mullahs. During the past five years the regime has also incited mobs to desecrate the shrines of the Baha'i faith, drive thousands of adherents out of their homes and kill at least 150Baha...
...authorities also believe that the Iranian-sponsored Al Dawa Party, a group of Iraqi subversives, organized six car bombings in Kuwait last December. Most alarming, some 2,000 Islamic Guards are positioned just inside the Syrian border, from where they make frequent trips into Lebanon to train Shi'ite terrorists. The government refuses to acknowledge ties with Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops in Beirut last October, as well as other Middle Eastern attacks, but Tehran does not hesitate to applaud the terrorists...
...slowly down a jetty and disappeared, like Jonah into the whale, inside a landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored personnel carrier manned by Shi'ite Muslim militiamen rattled past a U.S. observation tower. The driver raised his fist, seemingly in defiance; the two Marines on the tower just stared back. The 18-month assignment of the Marines in Lebanon, a mission that few could either define or explain...
...behind. They also played football and watched the play-by-play artillery exchanges between rival Lebanese forces. Using sophisticated electronic equipment for pinpointing artillery targets, some passed the time making a sweepstakes of the hits and misses, as Lebanese shells exploded in the nearby mountains. Watching the Shi'ite residents of a Beirut suburb, Second Lieut. John La Torre remarked ruefully, "I guess they're just like other people, except that they've had a civil war going on for most of their lives...
...this was the least of his motives; Saddam-Hossein, whose regime has never enjoyed full domestic support, meant to use the war to solidify his domestic political standing. Khomeini had just made public his plans to export Iran's Islamic revolution, and Iraq, with its large population of Shi'ite Moslems and close proximity to Iran, was more than a little threatened by these plans. Further, Khomeini's voiced hatred for Saddam-Hossein, who a decade earlier had ousted the politically active Ayatollah from Iraq, made the latter an even more likely target for revolutionary expansion...