Word: iraqi
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...yellow taxi, spraying the van with automatic gunfire. A third consulate employee in the van was wounded. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it was "part of a well-planned campaign of terrorism," possibly retaliation for the arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller they're not so sure. "Karachi is like the Wild West," says Waller. "It's just riven with political and ethnic factions." Over the last...
While his origins are still murky--reports have him either as native Iraqi or Kuwaiti, educated in Swansea, England, perhaps raised in Pakistan--Yousef's alleged terroristic record in America has emerged from court papers and books. The scrawny 25-year-old arrived in New York City on Sept. 1, 1992, on an Iraqi passport, having moved through Jordan and Pakistan before landing at J.F.K. airport. According to Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the Trade Center bombing authored by New York Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer, Yousef said he had been tortured by the Iraqi military and successfully...
...officials, responding to a New York Times report that Iraq may be selling 200,000 barrels of oil a day in violation of a strict U.N. embargo, acknowledged some leakage but claimed the sanctions were generally holding up. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said U.S. estimates of Iraqi oil exports are "in the neighborhood of 80,000 to 100,000 barrels a day," noting that Iraq was selling a far more lucrative 2.5 million barrels a day prior to its 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent embargo. But he added: "It is nonetheless troubling that Iraq is finding...
Faced with the hardships brought on by the four-year-old U.N. sanctions against their country, Iraqis have increasingly turned to crime, according to Iraqi sources. Last June, President Saddam Hussein's government responded with a series of decrees designed to deter crime; Iraqi officials justify the mutilations as warranted under Shari`a, or Islamic...
According to reports by other observers, Iraqis who have had parts of their ears removed are showing up regularly at camps along the border with Iran. Many Iraqi doctors have also reportedly fled the country to avoid having to perform such operations. Said a State Department official last week: ``As a device to intimidate potential political opposition and reduce crime, the mutilations may be tragically effective...