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...rampaging soldiers would kill again before withdrawing. Not far away, a 14-year-old boy named Dasran Dahran was dragged into a field, lashed to a scarecrow and shot through the head. Two other men disappeared at this time and are presumed dead by the villagers. And still the terror wasn't over. The villagers said the soldiers went house to house, pounding on doors with their rifle butts, pistol-whipping men of all ages. One was Zul Karnaini, a slender 28-year-old with a bandaged head. "One soldier shouted that I was a dog, a pig, a communist...
...atmosphere of disbelief. Everybody expected the Iraqis would pull out rather than be bombed, but there we were at U.S. headquarters in Dahran and the air raid sirens were going off as the allied air strikes against Iraqi positions began. Everybody was getting into the elevators and going down into the shelters; I got into one going up onto the roof to be able to watch. I'd been in Philadelphia before that covering the crack wars, and this felt safe by comparison...
...sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department says that the U.S. lacks sufficient evidence to charge Sayegh in an American court and that the Saudis plan to charge him as a participant...
...Sending Sayegh - who was arrested in Canada after the bombing - back to Saudi Arabia could solve another touchy problem for Washington. At the time of the Dahran attack, President Clinton vowed that any country whose government was found to have been involved would face retaliation. "But," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott Macleod, "the attack occurred before the election of President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents...
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