Word: lebanons
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...evidence of an Iranian role in the Dhahran bombing is largely circumstantial, but Riyadh believes it is highly persuasive. Most of the 40 Shi'ites arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack have visited Iran. Some have been in Iranian-supported Hizballah training camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Many traveled between Syria, Iran and the Bekaa on false passports. With the help of FBI forensics experts, the explosive for the blast has been traced to the Lebanese Hizballah. The alleged Shi'ite driver of the truck used in the bombing is in custody. The bombmaker, a Lebanese...
Soon after the menacing statements from Syria, Israeli defense officials say, they noticed that Assad was training his forces more aggressively, emphasizing attack rather than defense strategies. Most ominously, he moved his 14th division, an elite commando outfit, from Beirut, where it protects Syrian interests in Lebanon, to positions close to the frontier with Israel. Syrian officials say the recent activity is defensive and insist they have no plans to strike. Moreover, many Arab analysts accuse Israel of playing up the war talk as a means of diverting attention from the paralysis in the peace process since Netanyahu came...
...weeks ago, President Hosni Mubarak said that in the event of an Israeli attack on Syria, Egypt would not "stand idly by." Given popular feeling in Egypt against the Netanyahu government, it was perhaps an inevitable, if insincere, remark. If Egypt did not go to war when Israel attacked Lebanon in 1982, notes a senior Arab diplomat, it is unlikely to volunteer help with a Syrian attack on Israel today. Even so, the Mubarak comment has Israeli commanders re-examining their options on the western front...
BORN: July 21, 1947, Lebanon EDUCATION: U of Tennessee, B.S., 1969; George Washington U, J.D., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Lynn; four children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: National Guard and Army Reserve, 1970-87 OCCUPATION: Judge; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Knox County criminal-court judge, 1981-88; U.S. House, 1988- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2646, Knoxville...
...separate meetings last night, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students and the Harvard Students for Israel committee of Hillel reemphasized their commitment to dialogues that began last winter after Israeli forces bombed military and civilian targets in southern Lebanon...