Word: khalifas
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...responsibility for the bombing and threatened more attacks after the holy days of Ramadan end next week. Bahrani officials accused the Shiite Iranian government of sponsoring the bombing and encouraging terrorism, but the Iranians denied the charge. The attack is part of the Front's campaign against the Al Khalifa royal family which represents the emirate's ruling Sunni muslim minority. Tens of thousands of the oil-rich emirate's Shiite majority are poor and unemployed, and demand restoration of the suspended parliament, freedom of speech, job opportunities and the release of political prisoners...
...promising a record $4 million reward for information leading to their capture and conviction. "We'll follow them to the ends of the world to bring them to court," Robert "Bear" Bryant, an assistant FBI director, told a news conference. The suspects, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were charged in the U.S. and Scotland in 1991 with planting a suitcase bomb that killed all 270 people aboard 103. The FBI, which believes they've been hiding in Libya, says it will employ "innovative methods . . . to elicit the cooperation of the people of Libya and North Africa...
Suddenly, last November, the U.S. Justice Department blamed the bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times...
...Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, just before Christmas in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground? The answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed it in a suitcase, and sent it on a circuitous route to the final blast...
...tiny country, with a population of 500,000 and a land area only four times the size of Washington, D.C., is unabashed in its desire to foster a warm relationship with the U.S. Last week the President greeted Bahrain's emir, Sheik Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa, with a 21-gun salute at the White House in honor of his nation's role as the principal allied naval base during the gulf...