Word: shying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iraq Moves on Shi'ites...
BEIRUT WAS ALREADY AN INTERNAtional synonym for homegrown anarchy when it added hostage taking as a cottage industry. Between 1984 and 1992, dozens of Westerners became part of the inventory. Most were the property of various militias with ties to Hizballah, the Shi'ite Muslim Party of God backed by Iran...
...then the group thought nearly all Westerners in the Middle East who had pens, cameras or pulpits had espionage on their mind. Waite writes that North requested him to ask his Beirut contacts if the kidnappers wanted money. No, reported the churchman; Hizballah wanted the freedom of militant Shi'ites sentenced to death in Kuwait...
After the first shipment of one of the course's required books, An Introduction to Shi'i Islam, was sold out, the publisher's supply was exhausted. As a result, the book will not be available for purchase this semester...
...impose the Islamic ideology they espouse. For the most part, they are not members of some grand conspiracy sponsored by a state apparatus, but loosely organized, grass- roots militants who use similar terrorist methods and get money and weapons from the same like-minded sources. Unlike the Palestinian and Shi'ite revolutionaries of the 1970s and '80s, these disparate cells of angry young men seem to boil up from the broad opposition growing in the largely undemocratic countries of the region, in a self-proclaimed war to force pure, undiluted Islamic law on the societies that have failed them. When...