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Presenting the
Fall-Winter 1991
collection of
Hezbollah Splits
Affect Hostages
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Conflic-
ting actions taken by
various groups holding
Western hostages in Leb-
anon point to serious splits
within the Hezbollah, or
Party of God.
h-an may no longer be able
to control certain factions in
the Shi'ite fundamentalist
movement, according to an
analysis in the Israeli daily
Ha'aretz.
The rifts may delay the
start of negotiations for the
release of all foreign
hostages, including the
Israeli prisoners, the paper
warned.
Some new branches of the
Hezbollah have chosen to
ally themselves with
Damascus, in light of the
deployment of the Syrian-
backed Lebanese army in
southern Lebanon. Others
have actually established
contacts with Western capi-
tals.
Concerned over the
implications of such fac-
tionalism, the Iranian
government, which exerts
considerable leverage over
the Shi'ite groups, last mon-
th summoned a delegation of
Hezbollah leaders to
Teheran.
An Iranian source reported
that the dispute within the
Hezbollah leadership has
been raging for more than a
year. Teheran succeeded in
freezing the dispute by ap-
pointing Sheik Abbas
Musawi as the organiza-
tion's secretary-general.
Nevertheless, the tensions
did not abate. While Musawi
was busy with organiza-
tional matters arising from
the Syrian-Lebanese
Brotherhood Treaty signed
in May, some groups attemp-
ted to form a radical group
within the organization.
On the other side, a
moderate group, known as
the Damascus Men, has been
formed.
This group began pressur-
ing for the gradual release of
the hostages.
According to Ha'aretz, the
more radical group is
responsible for the kidnapp-
ing last week of French
medical aid worker Jerome
Leyraud, who was freed last
week.
The abduction . and threats
to kill him if other hostages
were released was an
aborted attempt to slow the
efforts of the moderate
Damascus Men group, which
may have set in motion the
Aug. 8 release of British
hostage John McCarthy.
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