Lebanon: Shooting the Katyusha wad

"The Lebanese Hezbollah use of Iranian missiles to damage an Israeli navy boat and sank a Cambodian-registered ship with Egyptian crewmembers is the latest and most dangerous chapter of an unholy linkage between hostage taking and missiles that was born during the American hostage crisis in Lebanon two decades ago.

During the 1980’s, Hezbollah terrorists seized over 30 American and other hostages in Lebanon. The terrorists’ primary goal was in an effort to get the United States and other countries to pressure Kuwait into releasing the two Lebanese members of the 17- member Dawa group who were captured after the 1983 attacks on the American and French embassies and other targets. The Iran-backed Dawa group of Shiites attacked Iraq because Kuwait supported Iraq during the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war."
Counterterrorism Blog