Word: bab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...port of Eilat. The southern part of this supply line has never been really safe, however. That was demonstrated in 1971, when a small group of fedayeen armed with bazookas attacked the Israel-bound Liberian tanker Coral Sea as it passed through the ten-mile-wide strait of Bab el Mandeb (Gate of Tears). The attack prompted an audacious -and secret-Israeli countermove...
...Baha'i Faith began 128 years ago in Iran when a young Persian, called the Bab proclaimed that his mission was to herald the coming of one whose advent would fulfill the prophecies of all the great religions and usher in a new age. The Muslim clergy looked upon the Bab and his growing body of followers as heretics and began to persecute them; within six years, thousands of the Bab's followers had been killed and the Bab himself was martyred in public...
Among the followers of the Bab was the son of a government minister, Mirza Husayn 'Ali. He became the Bab's staunchest adherent and was subsequently imprisoned. Exiled from Persia, he announced in Baghdad in 1863 that he was the one foretold by the Bab. He was called Baha'u'llah, meaning, the "Glory of God"; most of the Bab's known as Baha'is. Further exile took Baha'u'llah to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of Akka (in present day Israel) where he remained a prisoner until his death...
Baha'u'llah claims--and Baha'is believe--that he is the Messenger or Prophet of God for this age. The Essence of God is unknowable, but his will is made known periodically through his chosen "Manifestations". Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ, Muhammad, The Bab, and Baha'u'llah are the ones most known about in history. Baha'u'llah also claims to be the Promised One, fulfilling the prophecy of all past religions and inaugurating a new era of civilization concerned with developing mankind to spiritual maturity. In a thousand years, according to his writings, there will...
...Jordan last year and blew up four skyjacked jetliners. Its spokesmen in Beirut insisted that the speedboat had traveled a full 1,300 miles from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to carry out the attack, but this seems highly unlikely. More probably, the boat sailed from islands around Bab el Mandeb controlled by the radical government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern Yemen until a name change six months ago), or was carried to the scene aboard a bigger craft. An unmarked trawler was in the area at the time of the attack...