Word: militiaization
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...delaying game after another in the talks. Israel's main demand is for arrangements that will guarantee security along its bor der with Lebanon. It has given up a request for a permanent 750-man Israeli presence in the country, but instead wants the 1,200-man militia of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who has acted as an Israeli surrogate in southern Lebanon, to form a special unit in the Lebanese army assigned to the border area. Israel is also asking for the right to enter Lebanon at any time to conduct searches and make...
...campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, declared confidently that...
...talks on withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The U.S. offered a variety of suggestions under which the security of southern Lebanon would be the responsibility of the Lebanese army and perhaps of special Lebanese units trained and equipped by the U.S. Major Saad Haddad's 1,200-man militia, which enjoys close links with the Israelis, could be integrated into this special force. As the meetings progressed, Shamir seemed to back off from a demand for Israeli-manned early-warning stations in the border area. Instead, he discussed other alternatives, including the possibility that Israeli liaison officers would...
Working from this perspective the Israelis are exploiting the multi-religious character of the Lebanese population by arming and supporting various political factions within Lebanon. Through this selective process the Israelis are tailoring the political climate of Lebanon to suit their needs. "The Israelis have created several Shiite Moslem militias, armed the Lebanese Forces. Christian militias which has units here, promoted former Lebanese Army Major Salid Haddad, whose forces they have armed and equipped for five years, and are now attempting to form a Sunni Moslem militia here in Sidon," (Washington Post, March...
...militia commanders yielded to Amin's authority after suffering a series of setbacks. On Feb. 6, Druze fighters in the hills southeast of Beirut drove the militiamen from the town of Aley, for which they have been battling since October...