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The U.S. exercise in gunboat diplomacy in the Mediterranean, awesome though it may have been, did not help the plight of the hostages in Lebanon. In an atmosphere of rising tension, the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad organization, whose hostages are believed to include Terry Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent...
As fears mounted over the negotiator's continued absence, British diplomats disclosed that they had warned Waite not to conduct another mission to Lebanon right now. According to one Druze official in West Beirut, Waite had incurred the displeasure of some Islamic Jihad extremists by not fulfilling a promise that...
-- Lieut. Colonel Oliver North deliberately bypassed the State Department when he distributed special intelligence reports on Iran to selected Government officials in September 1985. A few months later, however, North provided intelligence reports on the Middle East to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian merchant who was the middleman for negotiations between...
For all their notoriety, the captors remain a bewildering collection of groups that Western intelligence agencies know little about. All appear to be allied with the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah, or Party of God, which seems to be largely controlled by Iran. The terrorist groups -- Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice...
In Beirut a previously unknown group called Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine responded to U.S. naval movements by warning that it would kill the three Americans and one Indian national kidnaped from Beirut University College two weeks ago if the U.S. attacked Lebanon. Along with the message, they...