Word: ahmad
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...country's majority ethnic Malays, was criticized at home and abroad as opaque, unfair, hugely wasteful and largely ineffective. The 1997 crisis hit Mahathir's handpicked favorites particularly hard; their inefficiently run and deeply indebted companies such as Halim Saad's Renong, a government-controlled conglomerate, and Yahaya Ahmad's DRB-Hicom needed huge government bailouts just to stay afloat...
This is how bad it was for terrorist hunters before Sept. 11: after weeks of dangerous surveillance work along the Afghan border, Egyptian investigators visiting Pakistan last summer with the permission of that country's government finally tracked down their quarry, a close associate of Osama bin Laden named Ahmad Khadr, who was wanted in connection with the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 15 people. The Egyptians surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where Khadr, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify General Mehmood Ahmed, then...
...Pakistan's major political and religious parties have stood against the vote, but quietly, because opposition rallies are banned. Qazi Hussain Ahmad who heads the Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's largest religious party, was arrested briefly last week after calling the referendum "farcical" and trying to lead a small protest. Musharraf has also been attacking the country's exiled former Prime Ministers, as they are the only rivals who might muster significant political support. "Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto have no role in Pakistani politics, this should be clear," he declared in a recent televised speech. Pakistan People's Party...
This is how bad it was for terrorist hunters before Sept. 11: after weeks of dangerous surveillance work along the Afghan border, Egyptian investigators visiting Pakistan last summer with the permission of that country's government finally tracked down their quarry, a close associate of Osama bin Laden named Ahmad Khadr, who was wanted in connection with the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 15 people. The Egyptians surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where Khadr, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify General Mehmood Ahmed, then...
Still, preparations have begun. One option for ousting Saddam entails using a broad-based Iraqi rebel force. The Iraqi opposition, though, is a thicket of political rivalries and ethnic divisions. The U.S. is taking steps to organize various groups. Earlier this year Washington reached past its main client, Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, and re-engaged with defectors from the Iraqi army who, like Saddam and the country's ruling elite, are Sunni Muslims. The U.S. plans to convene a conference of more than 300 Iraqi opposition leaders in Europe this spring...