Word: farouq
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...Gazans know how to help themselves. Shawwa, their nominal leader, has been described by one Israeli official as a "commander without soldiers." He can summon little political clout and no armed support. To talk to educated Gazans is to hear a litany of helplessness. "We lack leaders," sighs Farouq Abu Sharq, a self-employed furniture maker. "So what...
Pausing at the wreckage of an An-26, General Ghulam Farouq, Khost's Afghan military commander, pointed out that the "passenger plane" was downed three months ago by a U.S.-made Stinger ground-to-air missile. Though the twisted, charred remains retained a coat of green-gray camouflage paint and prominent military markings, the official line was that the craft was a civilian flight ferrying women and children to Kabul for medical treatment. In all, Afghan officials said, 36 civilians died in the attack. The rebels claim the flight carried military personnel and supplies...
...atmosphere suffuses the border regions despite Kabul's insistence that the area is under its control. Propaganda junkets were escorted by armored personnel carriers and half a dozen military jeeps. In Khost, a large wooded park has been discreetly converted into an army camp. "As you can see," General Farouq announced without irony, "people are ! leading their normal lives." If so, it is an extremely harried existence...