Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into the cockpit, wounding the pilot and co-pilot. Despite the damage to the aircraft, the injured pilot managed to keep it on course for 17 minutes, until he reached a remote desert airfield in northern Saudi Arabia, but he was unable to prevent it from breaking apart in a fiery crash landing. Among the survivors was former Jordanian Interior Minister Suleiman Aarar...
...governments of other Middle Easterncountries may also be in jeopardy, he said. Yalmansaid the "effect on the moderate governments inthe Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Jordanand Egypt is the worst aspect of the arms sale...
Scholars said the international crisis threatens to destabilize moderate regimes in the Middle East. The involvement of prominent Saudi Arabians andpossibly members of the Saudi government in thearms transactions may cause a backlash againstSaudi Arabia in the more radical Arab world,scholars said...
Professor of Social Anthropology and MiddleEastern Studies Nur O. Yalman called the situation"very dangerous." Yalman said that Saudi Arabia is"isolated and vulnerable to attack from extremistfactions" as a result of its cooperation withIsrael and the U.S. in the sale of arms to Iran...