71. U.S. and British jets have been patrolling no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq in a program designed to protect Kurdish and Shiite groups against government forces. 72. U.S. and British jets have been patrolling no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq to protect Kurdish and Shiite groups against government forces. 73. Underground Shiite groups in Saudi Arabia have said that hundreds of Shiites arrested by Saudi authorities since the June bombing belonged to the Saudi Hezbollah. 74. Western intelligence agencies believe that the Shiite groups involved in kidnappings were connected to Hezbollah but used a variety of names to cause confusion. 75. It also said an Israeli national had been charged in a Tel Aviv court with spying for the Shiite fundamentalist Lebanese group. 76. Iran denied the accusation, as did Shiite groups in Bahrain. 77. The Shiite fundamentalist group, which carries out numerous anti-Israeli attacks each year, has repeatedly shelled northern Israel in the past few weeks. 78. The SSP has been locked in tensions with Shiite party, Tehreek-i-Jafria Pakistan and a militant Shiite group, Sipa-i-Mohammad Pakistan. 79. The Shiite fundamentalist group denied the report but cordoned off the area to journalists. 80. The Shiite fundamentalist group retaliated by firing repeated volleys of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel, damaging a synagogue. |