Word: khartoum
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What's known for certain is that the American embassy in Khartoum gave him a visa in May 1990. This shouldn't have happened: since 1987, the blind Egyptian cleric had been on the State Department's watch list for suspected terrorists. When Sheik Abdel Rahman arrived at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum in May 1990 and asked for a visa, a Sudanese employee checked his name against a list of names on microfiche from the department's Automated Visa Lookout System. The employee said there were no "hits" against the name...
...modern African history has added to the fear and hunger that warfare began. More than half the refugees are Somali, fleeing westward from continuous battles among their country's clans and subclans. From the north trek thousands of starving Ethiopians, and from the northwest Sudanese are fleeing from Khartoum's national army and the southern rebel forces it is pushing before...
...other PLO official was on the flight from Khartoum, capital of Sudan, the sources said...
...Sudan, which has been taken over by another fundamentalist Islamic regime. Tehran is known to have dispatched thousands of its Revolutionary Guards there, and they are said to be conducting instruction in the arts of bombing and bloodshed for members of several extremist organizations at new training camps around Khartoum...
...reason for this longevity may be that Yemenites always find time for a communal chew of kat, a mood-altering plant whose effect seems similar to that of the Andean coca leaf. Horwitz also makes the kat scene, but the effect soon dissipates in the tensions of Cairo, Khartoum and Baghdad. In 1988, he notes, the popular joke in the Iraqi capital was that there were 32 million Iraqis: 16 million people and 16 million pictures of Saddam Hussein. This count included the President's face on wristwatches and ashtrays, and an unnerving number of government officials who are Saddam...