Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anchorage native Owen S. Wozniak '97 and his family are also preparing for the Russian invasion. "We're asking immigrants from Afghanistan how to best protest yourself from Russian tanks and increasing the size of our dog sled team so we can out run the Russians," he says...
...United States a huge service. He salvaged dignity for himself (a rare feat for Nixon) and relieved the nation of a tremendous burden. Today, with Nixon's precedent, a president should have no compunction about withdrawing forces from an unsuccessful mission. The Soviet Union learned the same lesson in Afghanistan, and much too late. When the objective is to remove a bloody tyrant or stop a senseless territorial war, at least the noble attempt will have been made...
...harbors totalitarian aspirations. Displayed on his office wall was a portrait of the French ultranationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. By the window sat a teddy bear. "I am no fascist," he snarled, bounding from his chair to stand before a large map demarcating the portions of Finland, Poland and Afghanistan that he hopes to annex. "I have not allowed myself to make a single extremist escapade in my life...
...amazed even the fearless Afghans. "The Arabs were crazy fighters, charging into any fire," recalls Ahmed Muwafak Zaidan, a Syrian writer who covered the war. An Egyptian scholar in Pakistan remembers Abouhalima and conspiracy defendant Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali as "very good commanders who fought in various provinces" of Afghanistan...
...time he returned from Afghanistan in July 1990, Abouhalima was in his radical prime. (Sheik Omar arrived the same month, probably by coincidence.) Neighbors recall Abouhalima wearing fatigues and army boots. He reportedly joined several future defendants at a rifle range in a Connecticut forest, where they wore traditional Muslim clothing, knelt repeatedly in prayer -- and practiced shooting AK-47 rifles from the hip. While Abouhalima regularly moved his family to different dwellings in New York and New Jersey, his spiritual life revolved around two mosques in working-class immigrant neighborhoods: Abu Bakr in Brooklyn and al-Salam in Jersey...