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138343
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The two studies under review, by Matthew Levitt and Lina Khatib et al., present very different pictures of Hezbollah, pictures which are not necessarily conflicting and are indeed, in many ways, complementary. Levitt focuses on the group's long record of terrorism dating back more than 30 years to the early 1980s and its violent attacks on US marines and French forces then based in Lebanon. Over that period, of course, as Lina Khatib and her co-authors demonstrate, Hezbollah has grown in stature as a political party. Khatib and her colleagues portray a party that has deliberately sought to keep Lebanon a weak and divided country, despite the efforts of the West and Gulf Arab states to strengthen the Lebanese state. These two studies add immensely to our knowledge of Hezbollah and its extraordinary rise over the past three decades to become one of the major political and military actors in the Middle East.
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The Japanese and United States governments have decoupled plans to move US marines off Okinawa from the relocation of an airbase on the island. The US Department of State said in a statement: "The US has conducted a strategic review of its defence posture in Asia." It added that this would result in the US and Japan "delinking both the movement of marines to Guam and resulting land returns south of Kadena [on Okinawa Island] from progress on the Futenma Replacement Facility. We are also reviewing the unit composition and the number of marines who will relocate to Guam." The Futenma Replacement Facility refers to plans to close Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma, which is in the centre of Ginowan city, and transfer its operations to a new offshore runway at Camp Schwab in Nago, northern Okinawa. The 2006 United States-Japan Roadmap for Realignment Implementation document states that about "8,000 III Marine Expeditionary Force personnel and their approximately 9,000 dependants will relocate from Okinawa to Guam by 2014". Under leaked revised plans, 4,700 personnel and their dependants will move to Guam, with the rest dispersed around the Asia-Pacific region.
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