Word: gia
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...Algerian terrorist group suspected of Tuesday's Paris subway bombing has threatening more terrorism unless France severs virtually all ties with the military government of Algeria, its former colony. In a statement published in the London-based Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from...
...GIA also bitterly opposes French President Jacques Chirac's scheduled meeting next month with Algerian President Zamine Zeroual at the U.N. Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanction says the GIA "has vowed to continue waging 'holy war' on French soil until the French cut off their economic support of the Algiers government. Earlier this week, the GIA reportedly said it would target French journalists, just as it has targeted Algerian newsmen and intellectuals back home." Sancton reports that the GIA has also said that it will not stop the bombing campaign until French President Jacques Chirac personally converts to Islam...
Swedish authorities detained Algerian militant Abdelkrim Deneche in Stockholm as a suspect intwo bombingsthat killed seven people in Paris this summer. Investigators, lacking hard evidence, increasingly blame the fundamentalist Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which lost four members in a French assault on an airliner that the group had hijacked last December. (The GIA has vowed to "avenge our martyrs.")Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanctonreports that authorities have other indications of possible GIA involvement: the fabrication of the bombs from empty gas cannisters is identical to techniques used by GIA guerrillas in Algeria, and an underground GIA newsletter published in Sweden...
Other new members are Linda T. Kang '95, YvetteL. Kasamon '95, Anna L. Kim '95, Gia Kim '95,Jeannie Kim '95, Reagan M. McDonnell '95, MeredithK. Nettles '95, and Stephanie A. Nonas...
...Connecticut last April, with five friends from a Buddhist youth group assisting him, Binh Gia Pham doused himself with gasoline, flicked a lighter and exploded into flames. The 43-year-old immigrant was protesting attempts by the Vietnamese government to suppress Buddhism...