Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regionally, southern California is at the vortex it seems of America's hate-speech induced violence, one instance of which occurred in 1989 outside a supermarket in La Verne. Four skinheads attacked an Iranian couple and their week-old infant, whom they assumed were Jews. Another incident in 1991 in Fullerton involved a skin head gang assaulting a Chinese-American student and two of his White friends...
...true that almost every secular Arab state from North Africa to the Persian Gulf confronts a fundamentalist threat. But they would face it even without subversion from abroad. "The problems in Egypt," says a U.S. expert, "stem from problems in Egypt. I don't think Iranian or Sudanese support is the cause for what's going on." Egypt is plagued by a pervasive discontent with the country's poverty, unemployment and corruption and a widespread conviction that things are not getting better. The slogan "Islam is the solution" is embraced by millions of impoverished Egyptians who have been completely disillusioned...
...connections are tantalizing. Libya shuts down some of its terrorist camps, and elements of the radical Palestinian Abu Nidal organization surface in Sudan. Lebanon's Hizballah and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas set up offices in Khartoum. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visits Khartoum, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel soon arrive to train the fundamentalist people's militias set up by Sudan's Islamic regime. Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group...
...Islamic state. Iran's President paid a call at the end of 1991, accompanied by his Defense and Intelligence ministers and the commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Reportedly, Iran agreed to provide Sudan with oil and technical aid in exchange for Sudanese livestock and wheat and promised to send Iranian Revolutionary Guards to train Sudanese Popular Defense Forces. U.S. officials say the Guards also offered instruction in subversion and guerrilla warfare for would-be terrorists. Tehran then sent Majid Kamal, the man who helped the Lebanese Shi'ites organize Hizballah, as its ambassador to Sudan...
British diplomats believe Sudan has also taken in many non-Iranian fundamentalists that Syria kicked out of Lebanon during the Gulf War. According to the British, most of these men are organized into combat units of company size serving at their own high-security camps. Others are trained as agitators and sent abroad. Still others, who might not number more than 100, are terrorists. The British sources say they are kept in five camps around Khartoum, equipped and financed mainly by Iran, though Palestinian groups also channel funds, weapons and orders to their own adherents. The annual budget for these...