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...Sheik Abdullah Shami, spiritual leader of the Islamic Jihad, apologized to Arafat and warned his followers that "the Palestinian street" should not "drown in side battles." Earlier, however, he issued a provocative message, pronouncing that in the future the organization's "guns will not know any difference between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police." The militants had previously avoided such talk out of fear of igniting a civil...
...collapse of Soviet patronage in South Yemen spurred a merger in May 1990. But the leader of the North, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the leader of the South, Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, bickered incessantly. They refused to completely merge their armies or their economies, and never built up any trust. "The power plays got to a point of no return," says Judith Kipper, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution...
...Turkey: Last January, Zeynep Atici allegedly plied boyfriend Abdullah Kemal Konak with drink, tied him up and cut off his penis with a bread knife after he said he was leaving her for another woman; it is uncertain whether his reattached penis will recover sexual function...
Abdelrahman Qassemlou, 59, leader of the independence-minded Iranian Kurds, arrived in Vienna on July 11, 1989, to negotiate an autonomy agreement with emissaries of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. After 10 years of fighting, the government seemed eager to reach a settlement. For two days, Qassemlou, his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, 37, and Fadhil Rasoul, 38, a Vienna-based Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, talked in a borrowed apartment with interior-ministry official Mohammed Jaafari Sahraroudi and Hadji Moustafavi, a.k.a. Ladjeverdi, an intelligence operative. A third Iranian, Amir Mansour Bozorgian, stood guard at the door...
...Afghanistan, two main organizations provided a pipeline for volunteers, funding and relief workers. One was the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, and the other was the World Muslim League, supported by Saudi Arabia. Linked to them were smaller groups of activists and influential individuals, including charismatic recruiter Abdullah Azzam, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who brought in hundreds of zealous volunteers, and his New York-based agent, Mustafa Shalabi, who ran the Alkifar Refugee Center in Brooklyn, known as "the Jihad office." Both Azzam and Shalabi were murdered in 1991. Another key figure was Saudi financier Osama bin Laden...