LEBANON: DEATH OF US HOSTAGE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06932297
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-01608
• Publication Date: August 10, 1989

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Latin America
Death of US Hostage
The Organization of the Oppressed on Earth announced on 31 July that it had
hanged US Marine Lt. Col. William Richard Higgins. The announcement was
accompanied by a videotape purporting to show Higgins's execution: however, the
time of death has not been confirmed. Hizballah claims that the execution was
done in retaliation for Israel's abduction on 28 July of Shaykh Ubayd, a Hizballah
leader in southern Lebanon. The Organization of the Oppressed on Earth is one of
several names under which Hizballah factions have claimed responsibility for
hostage takings. Hizballah subsequently has threatened to kill other US hostages
unless Ubayd is released. Israel continues interrogating Ubayd and has publicly
expressed the desire to trade him for captive Israeli personnel and the Western
hostages
SSNP Stepping Up Activity?
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)--a Syrian-supported, Lebanese-
based group--has stepped up operational and organizational activity in recent
months./
In the past, the SSNP has confined much of its operational activity to Lebanon. In
1985 the group carried out a series of suicide bomb attacks in southern Lebanon,
killing an estimated 85 persons and wounding 276 others�most of the casualties
were members of the Israeli army or pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army. Factional
feuding within the SSNP over the past couple of years apparently disrupted the
group's internal cohesion and operational activity. Having overcome internal
differences, the group may now be trying to bolster its reputation, enlist financial
support, and encourage recruitment.
Increasing Terrorist Violence
A new surge of terrorist violence has hit Chile in the past month. Most of the ac-
tions have been carried out by two associated terrorist groups, the Lautaro Youth
Movement (MTh) and the Lautaro Popular Revolutionary Forces (FRPI.), which
have claimed responsibility for four attacks on Mormon chapels, the shooting of
three policemen, and several robberies since the beginning of July. The character-
istically active dissident faction of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front
(FPMR/D) contributed to the growing violence in two attacks on 27 July�a bomb
was detonated near the Presidential Palace, and a radio station in Vina del Mar
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