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...Friday Trinidad's main television station broadcast a startling announcement: "The government has been overthrown." The author of the statement was Abu Bakr, the fortyish leader of a small Muslim group widely ^ regarded in Trinidad as violent outlaws. Bakr's 250 followers had blown up the police station in the capital of Port-of-Spain, seized the TV station and taken the country's Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage in the Parliament building. Declaring that he did not recognize "man's law" but only the "law of Allah," Bakr said he had seized power "to stop the incest, robbery...
Another of South Yemen's leaders, President Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who ranks No. 3 in the leadership hierarchy, candidly admits his country's "mistakes in the past" of trying to export socialist revolution and says, "We are not exporters of our ideas. We are here for one purpose, to develop our country so that we can improve the lives of our people...
Little good news comes out of Beirut nowadays, but last week the headlines offered some cheer. Saudi Hostages Bakr Damanhouri and Khalid Deeb were freed, evidently thanks to pressure by Syrian President Hafez Assad. Damanhouri, a cultural officer at the Saudi embassy in Beirut, had been held by an unidentified terrorist faction. Deeb, 23, the son of a security official in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, had been kidnaped in late January, apparently by the partisans of Islamic Jihad. The pair's good fortune raised hopes that the Syrians might secure the release of at least some...
...radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks ago. Late in the week, the radio reported that the insurgents had chosen Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who had been in Moscow since the conflict started, as acting leader...
...plan discussed in Damascus and elsewhere calls for Saddam Hussein's replacement within about 90 days by someone who has both military and Baathist party credentials. Among the candidates: Ahmed Hassan Bakr, former President of Iraq (1968-79), who shared power with Saddam Hussein for several years and was finally replaced by him in July 1979. Thus power would remain in the hands of the politically dominant Sunni Muslims. But as a gesture to Shi'ite Muslims, who make up 60% of the Iraqi population, as well as to Ayatullah Khomeini, the Muslim world's ranking...