A Reporter at Large  In the Party of God  Are terrorists in
Lebanon preparing for a larger war?  by October 14, 2002    The
village of Ras al-Ein, which is situated in the Bekaa Valley of
Lebanon, falls under the overlapping control of the Syrian Army,
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Shiite terrorist
group Hezbollah, or Party of God. The village is seedy and
brown, and is decorated with posters of martyrs and
potentates—Ayatollah Khomeini is especially popular—and with
billboards that celebrate bloodshed and sacrifice.  I visited
Ras al-Ein this summer to interview the leader of a Hezbollah
faction, a man named Hussayn al-Mussawi, who, twenty years ago,
was involved in kidnapping Americans. Many of those kidnapped
were held in Ras al-Ein; they were kept blindfolded, and chained
to beds and radiators. It is thought that Ras al-Ein is where
William Buckley, the Beirut station chief of the Central
Intelligence Agency, was held for a time before he was killed by
Hezbollah, in 1985.  When I arrived,