Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...score was soon settled, however. Last Monday morning a packed bus carrying students and police officers was plodding through northern Jerusalem. At 7:55 an Arab passenger sitting in the back detonated a bomb containing about 10 lbs. of the chemical explosive 3-acetone. The blast was so powerful that it destroyed not only the bus in which the bomber was riding but another traveling alongside it as well. In addition to himself, the terrorist succeeded in killing four passengers, including a visiting American; 107 others were wounded. Israeli security experts were shocked. One high-ranking intelligence official lamented...
...street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also Israel from Jewish control. The group runs a large network of social institutions: mosques, clinics, schools and charities. In recent years, it had been estimated to command the loyalty of about...
...According to diplomatic and academic sources in Britain, when Saddam massed troops near the Kuwaiti border last summer, the maneuvers flopped. Trucks broke down, and when the Iraqis retreated, valuable equipment was left in the desert for weeks. The army, says Andrew Rathmell of Exeter University's Center for Arab Gulf Studies, "has equipment enough to fight, but morale and organization are the problem. The systems do not work...
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has reportedly offeredSaddam Husseinpolitical asylum in the hope that the rogue regime in Baghdad might be replaced. An advance copy of Saturday's Al-Hayat, a London-based Arab newspaper, obtained by the Associated Press quotes Mubarak explaining his offer as "a solution to the problem of the Iraqi people and to prevent a bloodbath in Iraq."World editor James Collinssays the plan probably doesn't mean Saddam will leave Iraq anytime soon. "Given current circumstances, it's not a highly meaningful offer.The cracks in the Baghdad regimeare widening, but Saddam isn't that desperate...
...case, Hussein Kamel apparently did not leave Iraq empty-handed. The first Jordanian official reports that the general, before the flight with his brother, their wives, assorted Saddam grandchildren and 15 army officers, had brought out $50 million. How did he clear the Iraqi checkpoint? An Arab ambassador based in Baghdad replied wryly, "If you're Hussein al-Majid and you're driving to Jordan, you can bring out not only $50 million but $5 billion and no one will search you." Baghdad later accused the "traitor dwarf" of stealing public funds...