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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...
...said that the assassination of Kerr had been carried out by members of the Islamic Jihad, the same Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group that is believed to have bombed the U.S. and French military headquarters in Beirut last October as well as the Israeli headquarters in Tyre. The caller said that Kerr was "the victim of the American military presence in Beirut," and vowed that "not a single American or Frenchman will remain on this soil...
...detonations, a portion of the nightly news given over to psychosis. The scenes define a distinct style of politics in the world today, politics in a ski mask, violence dramatizing an unappeasable rage. Faceless, and morally depthless, the zealots crash truck bombs into their targets in Beirut or Tyre, go night riding with the Salvadoran death squads, or set the timers for the I.R.A. One sees their work-the almost daily deposits of bodies in the roads of Central America, for example. Or, in London, the innocent blown up to make an awful noise for Irish unity-horses...
...wounded (see WORLD). Believed to be the work of Iran-backed Islamic revolutionaries, the bombings represented an ominous spread of the tactic from Lebanon, where similar attacks in recent months against the U.S. embassy, American and French military barracks near the Beirut airport, and an Israeli army headquarters at Tyre killed a total of 423 people. On Saturday, terrorists struck another chilling blow, this one in a setting familiar to many Americans. At the height of the Christmas rush, a bomb ripped through Harrods department store in London, killing at least five and injuring 91. Police suspected the Irish Republican...