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Article: Khomeini's Death Seen as a Blow to Radical Shiites in Lebanon
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- The Washington Post
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- June 9, 1989
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For Lebanon's Shiite Moslems, the death of Iran's Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini is seen as the crumbling of a formidable rock of
support and source of inspiration for political militancy after
centuries of repression.
Analysts here are forecasting an erosion of the growth in Islamic
fervor and radicalism that was structured with Iranian funding and
guidance into the Hezbollah movement, the brainchild of the late
Iranian revolutionary leader. Shadowy front organizations such as
Islamic Jihad, the group claiming to hold Western hostages here, have
operated clandestinely under Hezbollah commanders with secret
channels to power centers in Iran.
Finding fertile ground in Lebanon's jungle of ...