Word: tyre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy in West Beirut. Six months later, similar suicide bombings within moments of each other took the lives of 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers. Sixty-one others died two weeks after that when a bomb devastated an Israeli military headquarters in the southern port city of Tyre. In the meantime, of course, untold hundreds have died in the continuing chaos throughout Lebanon...
...Christians trace their heritage directly to Jesus. People from the coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre went to Galilee to hear Christ preach, and on at least one occasion Jesus visited what is now southern Lebanon. Later the Apostle Paul spent a week in Tyre, where the first Christian church is believed to have been established. By the 5th century, the region was solidly Christian. So it remained until 200 years later, when Muslim invaders conquered much of the Middle East and North Africa. Many Christian communities along the coast converted to Islam, but the mountains remained a Christian redoubt...
...most alarmed over the possibility that some of the estimated 300 Italian terrorists known to be at large may have allied themselves with the pro-Iranian Shi'ites responsible for car-bomb attacks on the French and U.S. Marine compounds in Beirut and the Israeli headquarters in Tyre last fall...
Says a young man in Hallousiyeh: "If the Israelis don't leave, we will shed our blood to get them out. Even the children of the village have come to hate them." Following the bombing of the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre on Nov. 4, a Shi'ite terrorist action in which 61 people were killed, the Israelis instituted stringent security precautions at the Awali River bridge. The result has been a horrendous traffic bottleneck at the bridge. Trucks, many of them carrying consumer goods between Sidon and Beirut, have sometimes had to wait two days or longer...
Last week, after an Israeli position near Tyre came under fire, Israeli troops besieged the Shi'ite mountain village of Halloussiyeh. They arrested eight villagers, including the local prayer leader, Sheik Abbas Harb, and bulldozed his house to the ground. Villagers threw stones at the Israelis and set tires afire on nearby roads...