These were the supporters of a right-wing alliance of religious parties, the Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal, or M.
"All forces realize that military power cannot be fully subordinated to civil authority, " notes Amal.
But the figure is certainly much higher, according to Imran Rizvi from the charity Amal.
In one village, a row between Hizbullah and Amal guerrillas left three of them dead.
Nasrallah and other prominent, young Shiite radicals soon came to believe that Amal was becoming too secular.
Over the next four years, he became increasingly involved with the radical Shiite Amal movement in Lebanon.
"Issues about the military tend to unite students, " says Ichlasul Amal, rector of Jogjakarta's Gadjah Mada University.
Its loyalties in fact, lie with Amal, another Shiite political and paramilitary group.
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb says Hezbollah believes a President Suleiman would not give in to Western pressure to disarm its fighters.
"The desertions are a tangible sign that the pro-Israeli militia is nearing its last breath, " a statement from Amal said.
In the town-council polls, for instance, its reputedly less corrupt candidates stole support from the rival, Syrian-backed Shia party, Amal.
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The 29-year-old Yemeni wife, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, was wounded during the raid.
"The message today is that Fatah cannot be wiped out, " Amal Hamad, a member of the group's ruling body, told Reuters news agency.
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Amal Saad Ghorayeb, who's written a book about Hezbollah, says the Shiite militia is unlikely to agree on what international diplomats are talking about.
Two-yearold twins Mohamed and Amal occasionally stray to help themselves to cups of tea from a kettle that sits in the corner of the room.
This was part of a constitutional deal which he cut with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, a six-party religious alliance that boasts a quarter of the seats in parliament.
Moreover, preferential trade agreements between Syria and other Middle Eastern countries closed to western imports provide Mr Samha's company, Amal Samha, with a wide and sheltered market.
Since Shias make up two-thirds of the region's population, a landslide for lists picked by the two dominant and allied Shia parties, Hizbullah and Amal, was certain.
It also found him guilty of aggravated assault, for causing serious injuries to Amal Edan Khalaf, the mother of Noor's fiance, and two counts of leaving the scene.
Ms. AMAL SAAD GHORAYEB (Lebanese American University): If they want something much stronger, then clearly it's aim would be to disarm Hezbollah, to push Hezbollah away from the border.
Larijani held talks with the heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian groups as well as representatives of Hizbullah and the Lebanese Shiite Amal militia and political party.
Muna Elmufatish, 41, her daughters Hanin Kua, 14, Basma, 13, Amal, nine, and sons Mustafa, five, and Yehya, two, died due to the "inhalation of fire fumes" the inquest found.
Senior figures from Hezbollah and its closest ally Amal - both Shia movements - also reportedly went to Damascus and met President Asad only hours before the drama reached its denouement.
Again, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb of the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Ms. AMAL SAAD-GHORAYEB (Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center): I recall when Lahoud became president, people were very optimistic about his, you know, his tenure - at the beginning of his tenure.
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 part of an effort to crush the Palestinian Liberation Organization Nasrallah broke away from Amal and joined the newly-established Hezbollah or Party of God.
Amal Nashashibi, scion of a Palestinian family whose ancestors once danced at the Shepherd Hotel, asks how foreigners can think of creating a whole state when they cannot stop Israel demolishing a house on their doorstep.
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