1. After Hezbollah and Amal, another Shiite guerrilla group, transferred the remains to the Lebanese army, they were flown to Israel on a French military transport plane. 2. From their side, the Shiite guerrillas continued to send volleys of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel. 3. Most clashes, they said, involve hit-and-run attacks by Shiite guerrillas. 4. On the other is the yellow banner of the de facto rulers of southern Lebanon, the Shiite guerrilla organization Hezbollah. 5. The Israeli army and spokesmen for Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite guerrilla group, offered different versions of the incident. 6. The renewed bloodshed has prompted intensified fighting that continued over the weekend with fierce exchanges between Israeli forces and Shiite guerrillas. 7. A moderate cleric, Soueidan handled religious affairs of the Shiites in southern Lebanon, where predominantly Shiite guerrillas are fighting Israeli occupation of a border zone. 8. Benkler was evasive Friday when asked why Shiite guerrillas would want to attack their own civilians, and acknowledged that the militiamen might have misfired. 9. Fighters and civilians alike waved the flags of the main Shiite guerrilla groups -- Hezbollah and Amal. 10. For years, the Shiite fundamentalist guerrillas have attacked Israeli troops and fired rockets at Israel to drive Israeli troops from southern Lebanon. |