The group is modeled after the pro-Iranian Lebanese organization known as Islamic Holy War.
He vanished in West Beirut on Jan. 20 after dropping out of sight to meet with officials of Islamic Holy War, a pro-Iranian organization, to negotiate the release of American captives.
A Saudi diplomat kidnapped in West Beirut 66 days ago was freed today, 24 hours after a pro-Iranian organization said it would delay a death sentence for a French hostage for one week.
In Beirut today, the pro-Iranian organization Islamic Holy War said Moslems in the gulf were preparing for suicide missions and threatened to mount terrorist attacks against the United States and Europe.
But Israeli officials said tonight that they could not verify assertions of responsibility issued in Lebanon by a pro-Iranian fundamentalist organization, Islamic Holy War.
His release came 24 hours after a pro-Iranian organization said it would delay a death sentence for a French hostage for one week.
The cleric, Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, is a senior leader of the Party of God, a pro-Iranian organization in Lebanon.
There, guerrillas from the Party of God, a pro-Iranian organization, fired rockets at Israeli settlements.
Canadian officials asserted today that last year's bombing of an American barracks in Saudi Arabia was carried out by a militant Shiite Muslim group with links to Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian organization based in Lebanon.
Today he is being held without bail, in protective custody, in a Suffolk County jail here, accused of - but not charged with - being a member of a violent pro-Iranian terrorist organization.