Word: ites
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...that its hard line led to Israel's decision to pull out of Lebanon. In the first phase, finished ahead of schedule on Saturday, the Israelis withdrew from the Awali River and redeployed seven to 20 miles south. A recent increase of attacks on Israeli soldiers by Lebanese Shi'ite forces, including the killing of three last week, has prompted some Jerusalem officials to call for a reexamination of the pullback. So far, however, Peres insists that Israel will stick to its schedule...
...Israeli convoys 30 or 40 vehicles long carried south everything from prefabricated sheds to concrete roadblocks. Already land mines and sniper attacks by Arab guerrillas have claimed as many as five Israeli lives. The Israel Defense Forces say that they have killed a like number of terrorists. Shi'ite Muslim Leader Nabih Berri, who is also the Lebanese Cabinet minister responsible for southern Lebanon, vowed that assaults against the Israelis would not cease. "You will see resistance like you have never had before," he warned...
...that could be the least of the violence. Many in the region fear that as soon as the Israelis are gone, southern Lebanon will explode into bloody anarchy as sectarian groups, including the newly powerful Shi'ite Muslim extremists, begin settling old scores. Last week 700 Lebanese troops joined the 1,200 already deployed in the Kharroub region between Beirut and the Israeli lines on the Awali. Their role: to fill the gap left by the departing Israelis...
...withdrawal will be carried out: We decided to redeploy unilaterally in three phases to the international boundary, and maintain a security zone that will be manned by local Lebanese forces friendly to us, rather than be a daily target for every Shi'ite group, as we are now. I prefer offensive methods. We'll see what the Shi'ites do. If there is a problem, we'll bomb them, we'll shell them. If there is a need, we'll send an armored column in to cope with the area from which they have come. In any event, Lebanon will...
Some Washington officials speculate that at least some of the kidnapings were the work of Al Dawa (the Call), an Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalist group that is thought to have perpetrated the December 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and other targets in Kuwait. This would explain offers to free at least some of the Americans in exchange for the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the bombings. But many Western diplomats in Beirut believe that another Shi'ite organization, called Hizballah (Party of God), might also be holding the Americans. Callers to Western news agencies...