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Hizballah used TOW missiles against Israel last February. Ironically perhaps,
Hizballah may have gotten the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese
guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible
explanation for its TOW missiles — strenuously denied by Iran — is that these are
some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in
1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon — the root
of the Iran-contra scandal that dogged the Reagan administration. The actual
delivery of those missiles to Iran was, of course, carried out by Israel.
For a man accused of torture, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing and the murder of
some 300,000 of his countrymen, Idi Amin Dada is doing pretty nicely at the
pleasure of the Saudi royal family. Although his hosts have imposed a media gag
on the 72-year-old former military officer and self-proclaimed national
heavyweight boxing champion, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, they've
shown no inclination to extradite him. Instead, the Saudis pay Amin a monthly
stipend that allows him to live comfortably with a large entourage in a villa in
Jidda, where he swims, goes fishing in the Red Sea, dines on imported food and
watches a lot of satellite TV.
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