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...TYRE, LEBANON: A suicide bomber blew himself up today near an Israeli army convoy in Southern Lebanon, killing one soldier and wounding seven. Hizballah has claimed responsibility for the attack in the village of Taibeh, 2 1/2 miles from the Lebanese-Israeli border. The attack is the latest incident in the decade-long struggle between the Iranian-backed Hizbollah and Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon. Despite two UN resolutions calling for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, Israel has occupied the area since 1985 in an attempt to stop guerrilla raids on settlements in northern Israel. The bombing came...
...days during the mid-1940's, when the Soviets were scrambling to develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon and New York is referred to as Tyre -- all ancient cities that came to ruin." Reasonable people may differ as to whether this is evidence of the KGB's sense of humor or the CIA's lack...
...when the posting in Lebanon opened, Higgins was anxious to get back to the field. No rule barred an officer with Higgins' top clearances from taking the job. But eight months after his arrival in Lebanon, he was kidnaped by Hizballah gunmen near the port city of Tyre. His captors, who quickly found out that he had worked for Weinberger, charged him with being a spy. In a videotape released a week after the kidnaping, Higgins appeared to have been physically abused...
...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
...source said privately the kidnappers took Higgins to Shabriha, a village half a mile northeast of Tyre...