Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
In Search of Hezbollah-II
By Adam Shatz
WORKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ARTICLE
Hizbollah: Rebel Without a Cause?
by the International Crisis Group
a briefing paper, July 30, 2003
My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing
by Christoph Reuter, translated from the German by Helena Ragg-Kirkby
Princeton University Press, 240 pp., $24.95
Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion
by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
Pluto, 254 pp., $69.95
Should Hezbollah Be Next?
by Daniel Byman
Foreign Affairs, November/December 2003
Hizballah of Lebanon: Mundane Politics vs. Extremist Ideals
a paper byAugustus Richard Norton
Council on Foreign Relations, 1999
Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism
by Judith Palmer Harik
I.B. Tauris, 241 pp., $24.95
Hizballah: Terrorism, National Liberation, or Menace?
a report by Sami G. Hajjar
Strategic Studies Institute,US Army War College, August 2002
A visitor trying to discover who controls Lebanon's south, the heartland of Lebanese Shiism, soon finds that Hezbollah flags fly from the wreckage of demolished tanks abandoned by the Israeli army when it withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. The smiling face of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the prominent Shiite cleric who is Hezbollah's political leader, is ubiquitous, and posters of Hezbollah's 'martyrs'—guerrilla soldiers who died fighting Israeli occupation troops—hang from utility poles along the main roads. These images are sometimes accompanied by detailed descriptions of the fighters' final 'operations'—guerrilla ambushes on Israeli troops and military installations, occasionally in the form of suicide bombings. (Although Hezbollah is notorious for having developed suicide bomb attacks in the 1980s, the group has used the tactic sparingly, unlike Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The last known Hezbollah suicide attack in southern Lebanon was in 1995).[1]
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