Word: iranian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...control of Bagram airport north of Kabul Thursday, to pave the way for humanitarian flights - and also military deployments to expand efforts to snare Osama bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda's leadership cadre. There was no word Friday on their whereabouts, but plenty of speculation - including Iranian reports that he may have already slipped into Pakistan. U.S. special forces are roaming the south, engaging in firefights with retreating Taliban fighters and gathering intelligence on the possible whereabouts of their leaders. And local Pashtun warlords, eager to stake their own claim in a new political dispensation, are wresting...
Americans have learned through bitter experience to associate trouble in the Middle East and the Muslim world with pain at the gas pump--from the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and oil embargo to the 1979 oil shock after the Iranian revolution and the price jump that followed Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Qatar, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi conferred with his Pakistani counterpart, Abdul Sattar, and outlined Tehran's minimum requirement: a broad-based government that guarantees minority rights...
...anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Qatar, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi conferred with his Pakistani counterpart, Abdul Sattar, and outlined Tehran's minimum requirement: a broad-based government that guarantees minority rights...
...behave in these very dangerous parts of the world is complete folly," says Chris Cramer, president of cnn International, whose organization uses AKE, a U.K. company that offers courses similar to Centurion?s. Cramer should know. While working for the BBC in 1980, he was taken hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. "I can tell you that the real thing is not unlike the hostage simulation these courses offer. They help prepare you for the worst...