Word: arab
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...Israeli police were preparing a security cordon around the King David Hotel for the Tuesday night arrival of Senator Barack Obama, shots rang out a short distance away - Israeli civilians and police shot dead an Arab bulldozer driver who'd gone on a rampage overturning vehicles and wounding 11 people...
...weapons deals. It was a time when China was looking for first-rate military technology that it could not obtain from the West. For its part, Israel was eager to reduce its defense costs by selling overseas and to increase its influence over a country that supported Israel's Arab enemies. No other Israelis were doing business with China, so Begin, according to this aide, accepted Eisenberg's offer. Eisenberg denies that Begin provided him with exclusive rights to arms-technology deals. . According to the Begin aide, Eisenberg bought the military technology from Israel's defense industries and sold...
...that telephone inquiries about flights to European destinations had jumped 80% since last month. Says Merle Richman, a Pan Am spokesman: ''There is a feeling that we are breaching a psychological barrier.'' If so, winning the breach has cost plenty. In order to woo back nervous travelers concerned about Arab terrorism, Soviet radioactive fallout and the declining U.S. dollar, airlines were engaging in extraordinary gimmicks and severely cutting their prices and profit margins. In the forefront of the European scramble to recover American business is British Airways. BA has waged a $6 million promotion campaign called ''Go for it, America...
...flown to Guantánamo Bay, where he became detainee No. 149. Soon after, he met Soufan, the FBI's foremost expert on al-Qaeda, who interrogated Hamdan repeatedly until December 2003, when President Bush chose him from among thousands of detainees in U.S. custody to be the first Arab defendant in the military tribunals...
...with a group that sees every negotiation as a step on the road to "liberating" Jerusalem. In that light, the prisoner exchange on July 16 isn't a promising first step toward ending hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, but instead the opening of an unstable new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict, in which there is no system in place to prevent small outbursts from turning into big wars...