Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman, Jordan and forced the pilot to fly to London after a stop...
...loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman, Jordan and forced the pilot to fly to London after a stop...
...crash is ruffling diplomatic feathers in New York City. A week ago the Federal Aviation Administration ordered that complete searches be conducted of all airline passengers traveling out of the U.S. with passports from any of the seven countries Washington has designated as state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. Such passengers, in addition to being run through electronic detectors along with their carry-on and checked bags, are being hand searched. Snared in the new order have been diplomats from the affected countries who are posted at U.N. headquarters. They have lodged protests...
DEFECTED. RAED AHMED, 29, Iraqi Olympic weight lifter who carried his nation's flag into the opening ceremony. Ahmed exclaimed, "I'm escaping from the hell of Iraq...
...bookings, which helped put it out of business in 1991. Even before last week, some observers were questioning TWA's long-term outlook. Scott Hamilton, editor of the trade publication Commercial Aviation Report, told Bloomberg Business News earlier this month, "If anything goes wrong of significant consequence, like another Iraq invading Kuwait or another round of terrorist bombings, I don't think TWA has built the kind of foundation that would enable them to survive...