Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving the P.L.O. from southern Lebanon. The well-funded and heavily armed P.L.O. fighters had overrun large parts of southern Lebanon and Beirut, and the Shi'ites were the principal victims of their arbitrary power. The Israeli expulsion of the P.L.O., together with the crushing of its Sunni Muslim allies, created a power vacuum that was quickly filled by the emergent Shi'ites, who have little interest in seeing the Palestinians return...
Last week Junejo decided that enough was enough. He banned political rallies marking Independence Day, including those by his own party, the Pakistan Muslim League. Zia, who was away on a pilgrimage to Mecca, almost certainly had a role in the decision. When the opposition ignored the ban, police arrested hundreds of Bhutto's advisers and political allies in predawn raids around the country. Opposition supporters in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad surged into the streets, where they were met by riot squads and tear gas. In Lahore, beleaguered police fired into a crowd, killing four and wounding dozens...
Little more than a day later, on a busy street in the Barbir area of Muslim- dominated West Beirut, a gray Volkswagen containing 165 lbs. of explosives blew up in another deafening blast. The force devastated a shopping center of 20 boutiques, set fire to dozens of cars and shattered the windows of Barbir Hospital. Though ambulances raced screaming to the scene, at least 25 people were killed and 170 wounded...
...later, Berri, who is also Lebanon's Minister of Justice, organized his own show of "justice," though it bore no direct relation to either of last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament...
...When Muslim fundamentalists disable a crucial Soviet oil refinery, Moscow works out a cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies...