Amal
Lebanese organization
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Nasrallah
- In Hassan Nasrallah: Early life and career
…to Lebanon and fought with Amal, becoming the group’s Bekaa valley commander. Following Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Nasrallah left Amal to join the nascent Hezbollah movement, a more-radical force that was heavily influenced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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Ṣadr
- In Mūsā al-Ṣadr
…and in 1975 he formed Amal, an armed wing of his Ḥarakat al-Maḥrūmīn (“Movement of the Deprived”), a Shiʿi social reform movement, in order to defend the Shiʿi community in the Lebanese Civil War. He and a small entourage disappeared while on an official trip in Libya. The Libyan government…
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