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...style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat; in London. A staunch believer in peace between the Arab nations and Israel, Basheer was government spokesman during different stages of peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel in the seventies. NOMINATED. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM, 71, father of India's missile program and brain behind...
...says, "has been a serious blow to the network here." Robbed of their central facilities in the Afghan camps, Italian cells have had to get by with less logistical support, like false documents and ready cash; communications have been hampered; and, crucially, key figures have been killed. Abdel Kader Es Sayed, an Egyptian-born terrorist who authorities say was placed in charge of al-Qaeda's Italian operations in 2000, was reportedly killed in the American bombing campaign. So were at least two other members of the al-Qaeda high command. Mohammed Atef, an Egyptian who was believed...
...exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people. A New York law firm claimed the money would be offered in exchange for lifting sanctions and for the removal of Libya from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism. Libya has consistently denied involvement in the bombing, even after Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former member of the Libyan security organization, was found guilty in 2001. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Killing Fields Aid workers in Kisangani reported that Rwandan-backed rebels in eastern Congo have carried out mass executions in revenge for an uprising two weeks before. The bodies...
...coverage has helped stoke the region into a fever pitch of outrage and impotent fury. At Cafe Shahine, in the working-class district of Imbaba, the afternoon transmission disrupts the patrons' domino games. "How can we take this--this relentless pounding of the weak by the mighty?" asks Abdel Qader Hassenein...
...Arab one. The Jews, reeling from Nazi genocide and desperate for a homeland, accepted the partition plan; the Arabs rejected it and almost immediately launched an unsuccessful battle to destroy the Jewish state. In 1967, in response to an Egyptian blockade and militarization and the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s insistence to “drive the Jews into the sea,” the Israeli air force made a preemptive strike against Egypt. Israel won large portions of land in the resulting Six-Day War, including the West Bank from Jordan, which joined in fighting against...