Word: militiaization
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...Friday a tenuous cease-fire had taken hold in Tripoli, based on a nine- point peace plan worked out in Damascus by representatives of the rival Muslim militia groups. The meetings were brokered by the government of Iran, which is ( friendly with both Tawheed and the Syrians. The plan calls for the total disarmament of all militias under the supervision of the Syrian army, which will head a security committee that will assume control of Tripoli. Whether the cease-fire was the result of Soviet pressure on the Syrians was difficult to establish...
Call me a misogynist, but I think "Minutepeople" would sound just a little bit stupid. Not to mention the fact that there probably weren't too many rifle-toting females in the Lexington militia...
...hostages taken off the hijacked TWA Flight 847. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin asserted once again last week that the hijacking had actually delayed release of the Atlit prisoners. Nonetheless, the freeing of the 300 validated assurances relayed to Nabih Berri, leader of the Shi'ite Amal militia holding the hostages, that releases from Atlit would begin as soon as he let the captive Americans...
Despite Shultz's statement, that was never a very real hope. Apparently, neither Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia then holding the 39 TWA hostages, nor Syrian President Hafez Assad was able to deliver the seven. "They didn't have access to them," said one U.S. official last week. It also became clear to Washington that if the President insisted on the release of all 46, it would not even get the TWA 39. Said one U.S. official ruefully: "Sometimes policymakers have to decide on the greatest good for the greatest number...
...pragmatism that pursues whatever is in Syria's, and by extension Assad's, best interests. In the Beirut crisis, as it happens, Syria's interests coincided with America's. Both countries were anxious to end the hostage stalemate under terms that bolstered the position of Nabih Berri, the Amal militia leader who in effect hijacked the Americans from their original hijackers. For Assad, Berri and his Amal movement play a vital role in Assad's long campaign to become power broker and peacemaker among Lebanon's warring factions. While Amal currently commands the allegiance of most of Lebanon's estimated...