Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONDON: What kind of hijackers bring their families along and never even threaten violence? A group of Iraqis who took over an Airbus 310 in Khartoum on Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the 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...
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...
...predicting he might need a Greyhound bus for all the Cuban athletes. More significantly, all Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games officials and security personnel have been briefed by members of the Immigration and Naturalization Service on what to do in case a Cuban, a North Korean or an Iraqi asks for temporary asylum. (Basically, they were instructed to isolate and protect the Olympian until an ins representative arrives on the scene.) And at the boxing venue on the Georgia Tech campus, officials were fully expecting the defection of one or more of the Cuban boxers, who could still...
Then came the Parade of Nations, part fashion show (grass skirts and blazers), part geography lesson (the Comoros?), part expression that all is forgiven (Saddam Hussein's son heads the tiny Iraqi delegation). The parade lasted far longer than expected, but finally the U.S. delegation came out, led by 286-lb. wrestler Bruce Baumgartner, who made flag carrying look ridiculously easy, and trailed by Shaquille O'Neal, whose new $121 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn't exactly what Baron de Coubertin had in mind...
...ground, reports from friendly foreign intelligence services and phone intercepts worldwide. CIA sources tell Waller that this method has worked before: in 1991, as the center was tracking Saddam Hussein's military buildup before the Persian Gulf War, the CIA computers were able to identify a group of potential Iraqi terrorists before they even attempted an attack on American targets. By tracking one of the terrorists, an Iraqi military intelligence officer, the agents discovered intimate details of many of the terror cells that Saddam had deployed. By using the numbers on the Iraqi's passport as a guide, the computers...