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...Immediately. It never was U.S. business. Leave it - which means leave it really, and sincerely to the Iraqis, or whomever they call in for help. Force Bush to resolve to mind the U.S.'s own business in the future and ameliorate the U.S. citizen's life. Muhammad Asghar Islamabad, Pakistan...
...Year's Day, Mohammed Asghar, a jeweler in Lahore, Pakistan, told reporters that one of the five snapshots on the FBI website was his. "I don't know who misused my travel documents. I don't know how my picture reached the hands of the FBI," Asghar said. He admitted using forged documents two months ago in a failed attempt to travel to Britain, but he may be the victim of identity theft. And he is probably not the only one, according to FBI officials. Other names on the list of 19 are known to be of people...
...that the jails could scarcely contain the torrent of new prisoners. The revolutionary firing squads were working round the clock. In the week following the pro-and anti-Banisadr riots, more than 50 men, women and children were executed. Some of the victims, like the writer and publisher Ali Asghar Amirani, were accused of "strengthening the Shah's regime." Others were members of the Bahá'í faith, whose Iranian adherents, numbering between 300,000 and 500,000, are regarded as heretics by Muslims...
...Premier also easily won a vote of confidence on the Shah's program of modernization and reforms, but not before the tiny, vocal parliamentary opposition turned the session into a freewheeling discussion of grievances. In an impassioned speech, Ali Asghar Mazhari an independent deputy, evoked cheers and tears with a stinging-and what short time ago would have been unthinkable-rebuke to the Shah. "While the majority of the people may have been silent this did not mean they were stupid and did not know what was going on," said Mazhari. "They knew. And they will continue to protest...
Shortly after Bhutto was deposed, the soldiers went to the home of the opposition leader, retired Air Marshal Asghar Khan. After saluting, they arrested him and drove him to a government rest house. The head of Bhutto's federal security force, several of his intelligence chiefs and most members of his Cabinet were also rounded up and placed in "temporary protective custody." So were other leaders of the nine parties that comprise the opposition Pakistan National Alliance...