Word: daoud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli officials have proposed sharing security responsibilities in southern Lebanon with Amal, on condition that the Shi'ites guarantee the safety of the northern Israeli settlements. Scoffs Daoud Daoud, the independent-minded Amal military chief in the south: "A nation protects its security from inside its own borders, not from inside someone else's." The dilemma of the moderate Shi'ites is stark: Israel will not trust them, and radicals in their ranks will reject any sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued...
...port city of Tyre, which has been occupied since the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982. As Israeli tanks withdrew, Shi'ite Amal militiamen drove in to a huge welcome from the residents of Tyre. The fighters began rounding up collaborators, although Daoud Daoud, an Amal leader, insisted that "now is a time for pity. Collaborators who do not have blood on their hands will be forgiven...
...revelations that President Babrak Karmal was on the KGB payroll for years was common knowledge in Kabul. That Mohammed Daoud conducted widespread slaughter, that the Afghans were slaughtering one another and that the 1978 coup overthrowing Daoud was arranged hastily "in desperation" from jail cells are false and serve a propaganda line that Moscow has long promoted...
...that Afghanistan could do any credit to the Soviet Union, let alone "Communism." The Afghans, we told each other, should be left to stew in their own juice. We could never control them, but neither could anyone else. We had our first taste of things to come in 1978. Daoud turned against the Communists who had helped him to power. Not only did he arrest the leaders of the Afghan Communist party, but he planned to execute them. The Afghan Communists were in a desperate position. They consulted the Soviet embassy in Kabul. Moscow quickly confirmed that we would support...
...Daoud as a legitimate ruler. An openly Communist regime would arouse hostility that would then be directed against the Soviet Union...