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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
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Subject: Re: Protesting the Beirut Hostage Crisis
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:51:03 EDT
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> = Bhatt
> I don't buy that the
> Israelis were going to release the Shiites that they had soon.  This
> looks like a public ploy on their part and you know how the Israelis
> are with the American Media!

For your information, the Israelis originally had about 1100 mostly
Shiite prisoners from Lebanon.  They had already released over 300
unilaterally BEFORE the hijacking.  Of course, this could all have
just been made up by the American media. -)
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan