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...Before the bombing of the ferry, Abu Sayyaf was known as little more than a criminal gang that kidnapped people, particularly foreigners, for ransom. But under new leader Khadaffy Janjalani, a militant who learned his trade in the mid-1990s in camps in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf has returned to its original goal: establishing an Islamic state through jihad. According to Philippine and regional intelligence sources, Janjalani is strengthening ties with not just M.N.L.F. rebels but also Jemaah Islamiah, the network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and which regional security officials...
When Kosovo Albanians first took up arms to free themselves from Serb domination in the mid-1990s, Ramush Haradinaj was working as a bouncer in a Swiss nightclub. He returned to his homeland and, on the strength of his battlefield wits and charisma, rose to become the most visible commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.), losing two brothers and surviving three wounds of his own. After the war, he launched a political party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), and following elections last October, at 36, he joined the ruling coalition as Prime Minister - completing the transformation...
...seen proof--that Khan gave those countries rudimentary but effective designs for nuclear warheads. Officials in Washington and at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna say they suspect that Iran may have bought the same set of goods--centrifuges and possibly weapons designs--from Khan in the mid-1990s. Although the IAEA says so far it has not found definitive proof that Iran has a weapons program, its investigators told TIME that Tehran has privately confirmed at least 13 meetings from 1994 to 1999 with representatives of Khan's network...
...foster disunity - despite the fact that it was her forceful rhetoric that helped keep demonstrators' spirits high during the street protests that brought Yushchenko to power. But questions persist about her integrity, especially about how she acquired her wealth - estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars - during the mid-1990s when she ran the country's largest energy firm. Last September, at the height of Ukraine's presidential campaign, Russian military prosecutors placed Tymoshenko on Interpol's wanted list, alleging that in 1996-97 she bribed Russian officers to buy Ukrainian goods from her companies. Tymoshenko dismisses those charges...
...conditions of ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the 36 Chambers conveyed vivid street tales, but permeated them with a sense of triumph over abominable conditions. After this pinnacle, gangsta rap suffered a creative...