Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Georgians zigzagged past overgrown oleander bushes and neglected vineyards toward the comparative safety of downtown Sukhumi. As they dragged Bagaturia through the former resort, once one of the Black Sea's most idyllic vacation spots and now a bombed-out coliseum where Georgians and Abkhazians are locked in combat, an old woman cried out, "How are things out there? Is the enemy advancing? What will become of us?" The soldiers had no answer...
...experts put the figure closer to 2,500 and say that as many as half of them have returned home. A senior Western diplomat in Cairo insists that both estimates are too high. He says 2,500 Arabs went to Afghanistan and that only about 200 Egyptians received combat training and returned to fight their government. Even so, says the diplomat, "it only takes a few to create the myth." In Algeria several hundred Arab veterans, known locally as "el-Afghanis," are fighting in the ranks of the Islamic Salvation Front. In Tunisia returnees from the battles against the Soviet...
...cliquish Arabs were sometimes viewed with suspicion by their Afghan brothers, who sensed that the volunteers had a wider agenda. Even so, their zeal in combat amazed even the fearless Afghans. "The Arabs were crazy fighters, charging into any fire," recalls Ahmed Muwafak Zaidan, a Syrian writer who covered the war. An Egyptian scholar in Pakistan remembers Abouhalima and conspiracy defendant Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali as "very good commanders who fought in various provinces" of Afghanistan...
...council hopeful, a 30-year-old self-employed insurance agent, told the crowd of about 50 students that he will eliminate waste and place increased emphasis on "quality of life" issues, such as an increased police force to combat crime...
British diplomats believe Sudan has also taken in many non-Iranian fundamentalists that Syria kicked out of Lebanon during the Gulf War. According to the British, most of these men are organized into combat units of company size serving at their own high-security camps. Others are trained as agitators and sent abroad. Still others, who might not number more than 100, are terrorists. The British sources say they are kept in five camps around Khartoum, equipped and financed mainly by Iran, though Palestinian groups also channel funds, weapons and orders to their own adherents. The annual budget for these...