Hizbollah
On June 14, 1985, TWA Flight 847 was diverted from its scheduled course from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy. Hijackers forced the pilot to fly to Beirut, Lebanon. The demands of the hijackers were simple, the release of seven hundred Shiites being held prisoner in Israel. The aircraft flew between Beirut, Algiers, and Algeria for 17 days until the hijackers demands were meet. The hijackers fled to the Shiite neighbourhood of Beirut and have yet to be found. 1 The Hizbollah Organization have legitimate cause for using terror tactics because, the Shiites in Lebanon were aggravated with foreign influences in Lebanon. Lebanon is a highly valuable area.. The country has been under the rule of the Phoenicians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, and the French. The country has been independent since 1943. Mediterranean Nations and the Middle East are connected through Lebanon. Until 1975, next to the Persian Gulf, Lebanon had the highest standard of living and greatest per capita income. 2 There is a internal ethnic division which caused a struggle for the economic and political power of the country. An attempt was made to divide power proportionately between Muslims (Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, Alawites,
Peacekeepers from western nations came to stabilize the area. Another is the liberation of all occupied Arab lands. This was a threat to peace in Lebanon and many Lebanese, especially the Christian portion of the population, opposed the Palestinian presence. Iranian troops in Lebanon then began to encourage Lebanese Shiites to create their own Islamic revolution. Hizbollah based itself in the Bekaa Valley and had a hold in the slums of West Beirut. One year later an Islamic revolution took place in Iran and Khomeini became the political and spiritual leader. Hezbollah was then born from the Shiite movement, to who the presence of foreign troops was the final straw, Iran Revolutionary Guard. In 1970, groups of Palestinian fighters who were exiled from Israeli lands headed for Lebanon. Katz, Jihad: Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism, (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2004) p.
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