Word: egyptians
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...another and that therefore American intelligence activities in the former Soviet Union will actually increase despite the end of the cold war. Kirpichenko also says the KGB knew in advance about the invasion of the Suez by England, France and Israel in 1956 and the Egyptian surprise attack on / the Suez Canal that began the 1973 October War. Historian-writer Allen Weinstein (Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case) is the book's co-author...
...February's bombing of the World Trade Center. They had links to the ring charged with plotting to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, the United Nations building and a federal office skyscraper in early July. All looked for spiritual guidance to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian preacher of Islamic radicalism. Finally last week federal prosecutors declared that the three cases were part of a single terrorist conspiracy led by Abdel Rahman. A grand jury in New York City indicted Abdel Rahman, Nosair and 13 others on sweeping charges that they had plotted "to levy...
...Thursday all 15 defendants were marched, handcuffed and in single file, into a courtroom in lower Manhattan, where they entered pleas of not guilty. The courtroom was packed with security men, since three Egyptian extremist organizations had vowed "revenge" if Abdel Rahman is harmed. Defense lawyers accused the government of conflating rumors and suspicions into a fantasy conspiracy to whip up a new kind of cold war hysteria, substituting Islamic fundamentalism for communism as the enemy...
SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN: Federal prosecutors charged the radical Egyptian cleric with masterminding a "war of urban terrorism...
...numbers of fundamentalist Muslims who fought alongside the Afghans in their war against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul ended up in Sudan. Arab countries who had happily shipped off their extremists to Afghanistan were leery of taking them back. Egypt passed a law allowing the execution of any Egyptian who had undergone military training abroad...