Word: abdullah
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...INDONESIA Taking No Chances Government troops shot and killed the military leader of the separatist movment in Aceh province while police in Jakarta sought to crack down on a militant Muslim group. An army spokesman said Aceh rebel leader Abdullah Syafei, his wife and five others died during a raid on his jungle base on Sumatra Island. In Jakarta, police detained Mujahidin Council leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for questioning about possible terrorist links...
...fuss is being duly kicked up. Administration officials told the New York Times on Wednesday that Clinton got favorable responses to the proposals from Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah II, and King Fahd in Saudi Arabia - much warmer responses, anyway, than Clinton got from the moderate trio after Camp David in July. But with the summit off and Arafat making the rounds, the Arab tone turned a bit nastier...
...someone named Bush. That distinction belongs to Thanksgiving 1990, when George W.'s father dispatched his Secretary of State to Sanaa, the charmless capital city of Yemen, to ensure Yemeni acquiescence in the military action being planned against Iraq. For hours, Baker had to sit across from President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was then despised by most of America's Middle East allies, watch him eat a messy local delicacy with his hands, and try to keep his own meal down while the sheik repeatedly spat into a large bowl between bites...
...deny a victory to its belligerent Iraqi neighbor - Riyadh also has some demands of its own. The Saudi leadership is reportedly outraged by Israel's reaction to the latest Palestinian uprising, and wants to see the U.S. play a more evenhanded role in the region. Crown Prince Abdullah, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since his half brother King Fahd's stroke, has warned, for example, that the kingdom would break ties with any country that moved its embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem...
...Washington's own diplomatic standing in a region where it is regarded as overwhelmingly partial to Israel. But the angry men and women on the Arab street make no distinction between Israel and the U.S., and that makes it even more difficult for Mubarak or Jordan's King Abdullah to be seen as doing Washington's bidding. In other words, despite Washington's efforts, don't expect to see those ambassadors returning before there's some gesture from Israel that Jordan and Egypt can sell to the streets...