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...When they heard gunfire coming from the Bhalkhel positions, "We thought the Bhalkhel were attacking us, so we opened fire too," says one of the men, Abdul Hassan. Some of the bullets and RPGs targeted the SAS rescue convoy, which was making its way through the valley without lights. By now, however, the odds had changed. A U.S. forward air controller traveling with the Australians summoned the AC-130, call sign reaper, whose laser-guided bombs smashed into the Sabari bunkers...
...Hassan was peppered with shrapnel and hurled into the air by an explosion. "I was sure I was fighting the Bhalkhel, so the last thing I expected was for bombs to fall from the sky," he says. When he regained consciousness, his best friend Alif Shah was lying beside him. "A fire was burning inside his chest," Hassan recalls. "He was dead." The tribesmen on the ridge were too dazed and panicked to count the bombs, but Kamil Shah, who watched in horror from nearby Zambar village, says "80 to 100 bombs fell that night." His brother...
...tourist was harmed, but the two women died of apparent gunshot wounds - though police reports and eyewitness accounts failed to clarify whether they were killed in a shootout with authorities or committed suicide rather than endure capture. Police officials believe that Yassin and the women had connections to Hassan Bashandi, who launched Egypt's latest wave of violence on April 7 with a suicide attack that killed three foreign tourists in Cairo's popular bazaar, the Khan El Khalili...
...King Hassan went on to proclaim that "through their feelings and minds, those absent are with us all the same." But the truth was that the deep splits between radical and moderate states that have virtually paralyzed the Arab League for years were as evident as ever. Said Moroccan Foreign Minister Abdellatif Filali: "Maybe this is the end of the Arab League...
Nyerere's successor is Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 60, former President of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous island off the Tanzanian coast.[*] Mwinyi was nominated to succeed Nyerere last September by the national executive committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million...