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There was not hezballah - they were Arafat's PLO. At a time Syrians, sponsored by Russians, were pummeling PLO camps, Tel-Zaatar namely, where they killed all male populace and forced pal females and children to leave the camp stepping on the dead bodies on the way out.

PLO captured a few guys from the KGB station in Beirut and blackmailed Russians to stop Syrians. Negotiations progressed slowly and PLO cut the head of one of the captives and presented it to Russians in hopes to accelerate an agreement.

Then KGB sent an assassin crew to Beirut, they captured several sheiks, related to PLO, and decapitated one of them.

After that Russian captives were released without any conditions. Syria overran Lebanon and PLO camps.