Word: mid-1990s
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...mujahedin won, of course, and the demoralized Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in February 1989. But internecine battles between mujahedin groups in the mid-1990s plunged the nation into a seemingly never-ending civil war. Omar says he formed the Taliban after he was told in a dream that he should save the country. At first the Taliban numbered only 30, but within months it had swelled into a conquering force fanning out of Kandahar to take control of most of Afghanistan. Initially they were welcomed as peacemakers by the war-weary population, but with order largely restored, the Taliban...
...their shiny things across our TV screens to make the fine ladies scream. Their early years as gang members, drug runners and fly thugs lent them the legitimacy to drop wicked rhymes about their street life origins. However, as they entered the mainstream culture and prosperity of the mid-1990s, much of these poems’ hard edge was lost...
...combination of these laws and human-level intelligence gathering (infiltration and interrogation of suspects) helped France successfully uproot terrorist networks in the mid-1990s and to thwart outrages planned during the 1998 soccer World Cup. Casting the net wide revealed that many people police had previously assumed were simply petty crooks had actually been thugging for the Islamists...
...order to gather intelligence about terrorist plots, members of Congressional intelligence committees have called for allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to hire agents who have committed human rights violations. The policy against hiring such agents was issued in the mid-1990s, after a Guatemalan Army officer who killed an American expatriate was found to have CIA ties. Although the case for recruiting spies from within terrorist organizations is simple, any effort to repeal the policy should take extreme care not to increase the power of individuals whose agendas may run fundamentally counter to that of the U.S. Soliciting information...
CommunAuto brought the car-sharing phenomenon from Europe, where there are now 120,000 members, to Quebec City and Montreal in the mid-1990s. Since then, six other Canadian cities have followed suit...