Suicide ‘earthquake’ threatened
NZPA-Reuter Beirut An anonymous telephonecaller said yesterday that suicide groups would launch a heavy attack in “occupied Palestinian territory” unless Israel withdrew its troops from south Lebanese
villages within 12 hours. The caller, saying he spoke for the “National and Islamic Resistance Movement,” told a Western news agency in Beirut: “We warn Israel to lift the siege of Zrariyeh, Jarjouh, Arzay,
Jbeih, el-Halweh, Kfar Kila, and other villages and withdraw to rear lines within 12 hours. “If our demands are not met, our suicide groups will embark on their biggest earthquake, unprecedented throughout the world, within
occupied Palestinian territory.” The organisation he said he spoke for is thought to be a loose coalition of Muslim fundamentalists, Amal Shi’ite Muslim guerrillas, and Leftists in Lebanon.
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