Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, 304 men and women are held in such cells by the South Lebanon Army, the Israeli-sponsored 2,500-man militia that rules Israel's self-proclaimed security zone. Most of the prisoners are Lebanese Shi'ites. Many are members of Hizballah, caught while attempting to attack SLA positions and patrols or Israeli border settlements. Some were arrested by the SLA security apparatus for interrogation. None have ever been charged or tried. Some will be released if their interrogators decide they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when...
Well-informed Israeli sources say the report was accurate through 1986, when Israel still occupied parts of Lebanon and its officials looked the other way. But after Israel pulled out and established the security zone, the politicians in Jerusalem realized that the world was holding them responsible for the behavior of their Lebanese proteges. The army sent experts to teach Lahad's men how to run a proper jail and to instruct them in sophisticated interrogation methods to minimize the use of torture and physical force...
...Republic, with its headquarters in Bonn. Economically, the figures are even more impressive: the East German economy that now has been joined to that of West Germany forms only one-tenth of the combined total. During those past 40 years, the world witnessed cruel wars in Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Nicaragua, but the mostly united Germans caused no trouble to anyone...
...onetime Likud moderate who criticized the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Levy switched to a hard line when Shamir proposed a peace plan last year, and as Housing Minister he secretly subsidized the Jewish settlement in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City last April. Levy has never hidden his desire to become Prime Minister, though polls rank him near the bottom of lists of ; leading candidates. His new job could change that perception -- or cement...
...have enthusiastically stood on Semen's and Chubb's side of the picket line. "I had been an uncritical supporter of Israel," he says, smiling as he remembers a retreat he planned in high school for a school youth group. "The retreat was in 1982, during the war in Lebanon, and I got propaganda from Israel's consulate. While I was planning the retreat, it was important for me to show the Israeli side of 'Oration Peace for Galilee.' I don't even think of it as a war; it was a necessary security measure...