Word: abu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman Yasser Arafat may or may not be directly involved; for that matter, it has never been established to what degree he was connected to the Black September organization in the past. Experts on terrorism believe that the leader of the revived group is Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s "Interior Minister" and, as it happens, one of Arafat's top aides. In September 1970, Abu Iyad first launched the Black September terrorist group as a result of bitter fighting that year between Palestinian fedayeen and Jordan's King Hussein, a conflict that...
...Abu Dhabi Nuptials...
...your recent article "Abu Dhabi I Do's" [May 11], I was in Abu Dhabi during the wedding celebration. Your reporter really has A Thousand and One Nights imagination: 20 camels laden with jewels, an entire town given to the bride as a present, a 20,000-seat amphitheater, 34 private jets? Surely Americans cannot be so gullible...
Khalid Kanoo Abu Dhabi...
...wedding, but it will have to go far to top a style of royal nuptials unusual even for fabled Arabian sheikdoms. For the wedding of his eldest son Mohammed and his bride Princess Salama, Sheik Zayed, the President of the United Arab Emirates, threw a $40 million bash in Abu Dhabi...