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Word: dahran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curious Case of Hani al-Sayegh | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curious Case of Hani al-Sayegh | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

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