The truck sped down Beirut’s airport road, quickly arriving outside the heavily guarded walls of its target. The driver ignored the shouted orders to stop and crashed the truck through a flimsy wooden barricade. In front of him stood a long, concrete building. The driver rammed the front of the building, came to a stop, and pressed a switch in the cab. Twenty thousand pounds of explosives detonated a few feet behind him. In …showed first 75 words of 3109 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3109 total…civil war at an end and the Iranian government pressuring the group for the release of the hostages, Hizballah gradually lost its influence in the Middle East. Although Hizballah survived in sough Lebanon, the movement now has only a few hundred guerrillas. While its terrorist acts are fewer, Hizballah has thrived as a political organization. In fact, several of the Hizballah leaders won election to Lebanon’s parliament in 1992, after a cease-fire came into effect.