Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council have been on a collision course since he took office last January. Though thoroughly cosmopolitan and a graduate of universities in Cairo and Paris, the Egyptian, the first Arab and first African Secretary-General, sees himself as a champion of the Third World. He is demanding that the political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their...
...would probably have to send in aircraft as well, and U.S. pilots could be killed or taken prisoner. Saddam could retaliate with the several hundred Scuds he is believed to possess, attacking Israel in the hope that it would strike back and thus strain Washington's ties to Arab allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
...Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American. The barrage of charges against these prominent Saudis poses a sticky problem for the Bush Administration, one that threatens to uncover an embarrassing pattern of legal and illegal intelligence operations as well as arms and money transactions involving Arab states, Israel...
Morgenthau has also been taking a tough line with another U.S. ally in the region, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. "Abu Dhabi has been promising cooperation for a year, but we've gotten nothing out of them," the district attorney said last week. His frustration is understandable: Zayed, now the owner of the tattered remains of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi's erstwhile $20 billion banking empire, has placed 18 of the bank's top officials -- all of them potential witnesses who could help explain the workings...
...royal fury in Saudi Arabia is fed by more than just Arab-Jewish enmity and the Saudis' abhorrence of publicity. B.C.C.I. flourished because it could provide cover for deals between nominal enemies, especially in the arms trade. The demand for these services was particularly keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning...