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...logic of Beirut's seemingly senseless cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More radical Shi'ites claimed that the Christian perpetrators were acting as "lackeys of Israel...
...later, Berri, who is also Lebanon's Minister of Justice, organized his own show of "justice," though it bore no direct relation to either of last week's explosions. Amal militiamen bound and blindfolded Mohieddin Saleh, 22, a Sunni Muslim they charged with trying to set off a car bomb three months earlier, then took him to a playground near the Rawdat Shahidain Cemetery. As a crowd of 1,000 looked on, Amal executioners stepped up to the prostrate Saleh and pumped seven machine-gun rounds into his face and body. The grisly execution tragically bore out the lament...
...that influence last month when Lebanese Muslim leaders, meeting in Damascus, drew up a 16-point plan that would increase their political power. Lebanese Christian politicians predictably denounced the Damascus accord, and new bickering broke out between them and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri. On Aug. 14 a car bomb exploded in a northern Christian enclave. Three days later an even bigger explosive device killed 55 in a suburb of predominantly Christian East Beirut. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon blamed the Muslims and promised, "Our revenge will be as powerful as their...
...bombings touched off the worst artillery barrages that Beirut has seen in more than a year. More than 15,000 rounds rained down on both sides of the "green line" that divides the capital into Christian and Muslim sectors. Berri spent a day huddled in the underground bunker that he used for interviews during the TWA hostage crisis in June...
Despite Shultz's statement, that was never a very real hope. Apparently, neither Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia then holding the 39 TWA hostages, nor Syrian President Hafez Assad was able to deliver the seven. "They didn't have access to them," said one U.S. official last week. It also became clear to Washington that if the President insisted on the release of all 46, it would not even get the TWA 39. Said one U.S. official ruefully: "Sometimes policymakers have to decide on the greatest good for the greatest number...