Word: extremists
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Ironically, diplomatic intervention in both countries in the early 1990s triggered the bloodiest massacres to date. A U.N.-backed campaign to secure power sharing for Rwanda's Tutsi minority provoked Hutu extremist politicians to conceive a plan that would rid the country of all Tutsi, even the young. To incite peasants into murdering their neighbors, Hutu leaders played on historical fears of a return to Tutsi hegemony and capitalized on a uniquely hierarchical social structure, in which peasants obey their chiefs however chilling the command. Competition for land in what has traditionally been Africa's most densely populated region further...
Another possibility is an extremist Saudi organization calling itself the Islamic Movement for Change. The group has already claimed responsibility for two attacks against Americans in Saudi Arabia. The first, in Riyadh in 1995, killed five Americans. The second, in Dhahran last month, took the lives of 19 U.S. servicemen. Clinton promised that those responsible would be punished. Last week a person claiming to represent the group faxed a note to a Saudi newspaper just hours before the TWA explosion promising to "respond in an extreme way" to the "threats made by the stupid American President." Officials, however, were downplaying...
...knows little about the extremist movements in the closed Saudi kingdom, but it is certain that they have been gaining strength in the years since the Gulf War. The most religious Saudis resented the presence of 541,000 American troops on and near their holy soil. Saudis also asked themselves why they had spent billions on planes and tanks if they had to ask the U.S. to defend them anyway. Many opponents of the regime appear to be drawn from the thousands of devout volunteers who received training and fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Others are conservatives who favor...
...through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound bomb. Even before the phone call claiming responsibility, suspicion had begun to settle on Islamic fundamentalists opposed to the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia. At least one of these shadowy extremist groups threatened the U.S. with retaliation after four of its members were beheaded by the Saudi government for their involvement in a car bomb attack that killed five U.S. citizens last November. "The Islamic fundamentalist movement in Saudi Arabia is a loose collection of different underground groups following a similar...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Extremist Protestants stormed out of peace negotiations just as they began Wednesday, claiming that the chief negotiator, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, will be biased against them because he is a Catholic. The dissenting Protestants say they are also concerned because Mitchell represents President Clinton, who gave a visa to Gerry Adams, the leader of the Sinn Fein party allied with the Irish Republican Army, and hosted him at the White House earlier this year. Sinn Fein has been barred from the talks because of its refusal to reinstate a cease-fire. "They aren't gone forever...