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...Hizballah's Katyusha rockets raining onto the soil of northern Israel and spotted the exact place in Lebanon from which they had been fired. But in this case, by the time the Israelis had aimed their guns and let fly from less than six miles away, the Shi'ite guerrillas and the Katyusha launcher had gone. Instead the shells slammed down across the area and exploded inside the compound of a battalion of Fijian peacekeepers, where more than 600 refugees had been sheltering for a week, hanging out their laundry on the fences and tethering their livestock nearby...
...necessarily. Western and Arab observers agree that it is not certain how well Assad controls Hizballah, even though it operates on his turf in Lebanon. The Shi'ite guerrilla force was founded in the early 1980s by radical Iranians. Assad, a secular politician who crushed his homegrown fundamentalists, did not publicly embrace Hizballah; he entrusted relations to his intelligence chiefs. The group has grown less extreme in recent years, sending delegates to the Lebanese parliament, but Hizballah is still closely tied to Tehran and remains as determined as ever to fight Israel. Yet it also seems to pay attention...
...terrorism seized the headlines, of the eight known groups, all were political, without religious overtones. In 1980, a year after Islamic radicals overthrew the Shah of Iran, overtly religious terrorist groups made their appearance. Of the 48 international groups active in 1992, almost a quarter were religiously motivated. Shi'ite groups, though they commit less than 10% of the attacks worldwide, account for 30% of all the killings...
...attack, the entire plan collapsed. In the first stage, as planned, Talabani's 10,000 troops launched an opening skirmish against the Iraqi army's 5th Corps along the Kurdish border near Kirkuk. Barzani, who has a force of equal strength, refused to get involved in the coup. Shi'ite insurgents next failed to undertake their strike against Iraqi forces in the southern part of the country, and an Iraqi armored division that was to mutiny and march on Baghdad decided to sit it out. "It was the coup that never was," said a U.S. intelligence official...
...fact, the barbarians are well established in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where...