Word: ahmad
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...cities of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Khost, women victims tell of being forced to wed Taliban soldiers and Pakistani and Arab fighters of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, who later abandoned them. These marriages were tantamount to legalized rape. "They sold these girls," says Ahmad Jan, the Kabul police chief. "The girls were dishonored and then discarded...
...Pakistani border guards. Others were taken to Khost, where bin Laden had several training camps. The al-Qaeda Arabs had a hard time finding voluntary brides among the Afghan women, but they did have money. One Arab in Khost spent $10,000 on a teenage Afghan beauty, says Ahmad Jan, but abandoned her a week later, when the U.S. air strikes began...
...year was 1994; the ambivalent kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects...
PAKISTAN Fears Grow The main suspect in the kidnapping of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl gave himself up to police and admitted that he had organized the abduction. But concern grew after Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh gave contradictory statements about the fate of Pearl, who vanished...
SIERRA LEONE End to a Brutal War President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared the country's civil war officially over and agreed to establish a special court to try those most responsible for atrocities during the decade-long conflict. The tribunal's most prominent indictee is likely to be rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was captured after British troops intervened in Sierra Leone nearly two years ago. Celebrations marking the end of hostilities took place just days after the U.N. announced the completion of its disarmament program with the handover of weapons by 47,000 combatants...