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         By Rora Boustany
         Special to The Washingtor, P03t
                   BEIRUT, Oct.' 22-The pro'
              Jiliad-orgahization
              Iran, n Islamic
         warned today gat Ih6usiAds of
         matjyrs@ je,,,*aitmg'f6-1a6ch sui-
         cide missions in 'the Persian Gulf
         region, @Iif ng thit""th6' United
         ,States, vuliiejability in confronting
         Moslems ""iWif"-be""de'monstiated.I
         within
              On the )@yp, of jl@e fourth anniver-
         sary of the '6@in &u&b6mbilligs Of
         the Beir4t. he4dquaqers of U.S.
         Marine and French @ac6-keeping
         troops, the group delivered a type-
         written communique to the offices
         Of &"qern news agency, Accom-
         pan ei by"Ohotograo s of American
                   ta-e T6 Anderson and miss
              ing .11 rench journalist Jean Paul
              uffmann. The statement made no
         reference to the hosta&§@.
              fi @ 'J 11 eipose to
         lThe next eW , ays yi
         the world the true dimensions of
         American strength in confronting
         Moslems"' the statement said. "On-
         ly the cowardly rulers in the region
         have illuskfig'about ... this paper-
         Win 6,apabiilhj@'
              Inclosed with the statement
         were color photogriohs of the Ma-
         rine -and French headquarters be-
         New Acts in Gulf
         UNITED pRESS INTERNATIONAL/REUTER
              issued photos of hostages Joan-Paul Kauffmann (left), Terry Anderson.
         aptors
         fore they were bombed, two
         minutes apart, killing 241 American
         and 58 French servicemen.
              "'There are thousands of the likes
         of our martyrs in the gulf today
         awaiting the right moment to recre-
         ate the glory of Moslems and
         Islam," the Iranian-backed group
         warned.
                   Its statement came two days after
              --Tehran vowed to avenge Monday's
              U.S. attack on an Iranian oil platform
              in retaliation for a missile that hit a
              U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tanker.
              After the 1983 bombings in Bei-
         rut, Islamic Jihad said, all the Unit
         ed States could do was "gather the
         limbs of its soldiers and flee from
         the fists of Moslems in Lebanon."
              "We have eliminated the heads of
         American intelligence in the area,
         and our determination to strike,
         again at the proper time and place@l

         

         is still firm," it added. Islamic Jihad
         previously had announced the ex-
         ecution of William Buckley, the CIA
         station chief in Lebanon, after his
         kidnaping in March 1984.
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