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Tawheed and the pro-Syrian militias have been fighting in the northern port for the past two years, but the battle for Tripoli that broke out on Sept. 15 has been the most destructive. Since then, entire neighborhoods have been razed in house-to-house fighting and by the relentless pounding of Syrian artillery. More than 550 people have been killed, and half of the city's 500,000 citizens have fled. The Soviet kidnapings occurred just as the black- scarved Tawheed fighters seemed in danger of being overrun by the Syrian- backed factions...
...previously unknown, told Western news agencies that they were to blame. Within hours, Polaroid photos of the four Soviets, guns held to their heads, were delivered to news organizations. The kidnapers demanded an immediate end to the fighting in Tripoli between Tawheed, a Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist group, and several Syrian-supported militias. The terrorists seemed to be targeting the Soviet Union because it supports Syria with large amounts of military...
Syria's hostility toward Tawheed is rooted partly in the group's close ties to Yasser Arafat's P.L.O., which Syrian President Hafez Assad is determined to prevent from gaining a new foothold in Lebanon. In addition, in its bid to pacify Lebanon and strengthen President Amin Gemayel's authority, Syria wants to reduce the power of religion-based militias like Tawheed...
Members of the terrorist Palestinian Liberation Front, a Syrian-backed splinter group of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), continued to hold 413 passengers and crew members hostage off the coast of Cyprus yesterday demanding that Israel release 50 Palestinian prisoners...
Karami's call for deployment of Syrian troops throughout Beirut suggested that his government might be willing to trade an element of national sovereignty in exchange for some respite from the violence. Still, until Assad's objectives are more clearly defined or seem within reach, Lebanon is likely to remain divided against itself...