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Beirut became a crucible of terrorism in the 1980s. Fergal Keane revisits the time of kidnap, chaos and the birth of Hezbollah. He drops into Hezbollah's Mleeta 'theme park' and discusses the period with Paul Salem of the Carnegie Institute, Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Timur Goksel of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. Producers: Alasdair Cross and Ghadi Sary.
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