The World - News from Nov. 5, 1985
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A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into an Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army militia post in southern Lebanon, killing at least three people, police said. The Syrian National Social Party claimed responsibility and identified the bomber as a 24-year-old Syrian who left a will saying that Israel “is like a cancer that should be uprooted.” The Syrian group claimed that the bomber drove into an Israeli army convoy near the village of Arnoun, killing or wounding 15 Israeli soldiers, but police said the casualties were limited to the Syrian, an SLA guard and his wife.
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