Word: hizballah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the P.L.O. may profit from the perception that it rejects Abu Nidal's movement, terrorism's tentacles are spreading. Alliances are said to be forming in Lebanon between followers of the F.R.C. and members of the pro- Iranian Shi'ite Hizballah. "I spend more time worrying about the fractionalization of terrorism than I do about the disintegration of ((Abu Nidal's)) organization," says a Western diplomat in Cairo. "Smaller groups are harder to find...
...official spokesman for the Hizballah, so I cannot answer this question as an involved person, but I can speak as an observer. There is no major change in strategy, but there is a change in approach, caused by the phase that Iran is now entering. The previous phase was one of war and building the Revolution. The current phase is one of peace and rebuilding the country. The conditions put forward by Rafsanjani for restoring relations with the U.S. are the same ones he put forward during the life of the Imam ((Khomeini)). They are that America should stop...
That is exactly the point of view the Hizballah takes...
...believe the Hizballah in Lebanon could eventually be friendly toward the United States...
...think the time has come for the United States to make a new effort to contact the Iranians and the Hizballah...