Word: khalifas
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...Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East's more murderous factions...
...fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion as he was leaving his Paris residence...
...gray Chevrolet rather than a gleaming Rolls. Largely by dint of his benevolent personality, Sheik Isa succeeded in dissolving the badly divided parliament in 1975 without incurring much opposition. He now rules by decree, though he leaves the day-to-day business of governing to his brother, Prime Minister Khalifa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...interview with TIME, the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Sheik Khalifa bin Sulman al Khalifa, said: "I'm all for maneuvers [such as those scheduled for Oman later this year], and I welcome full cooperation with the U.S. in the security of our area, but only on the condition that it is handled and presented properly." Translated, that means "Stay out of sight...
...past several weeks, the Ayatullah has been trying to stir up resentment against the government of Saudi Arabia by including fundamentalist Shi'ite zealots among the Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Speaking for many gulf Arabs, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa says: "The continual upheaval in Iran is a great danger. But subversion is the greatest threat of all. I have no doubt that the U.S. appreciates the scope of this threat...