Word: militia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarreling among the country's 72 Muslim sects and subsects over the "pure" interpretation of the law. And this could be the worst of times for Pakistan to try to revive fundamentalist laws. Everything seems to be going wrong for Nawaz Sharif. His support of the Taliban militia in neighboring Afghanistan has drawn enmity from Iran and the Central Asian republics (see following story). India and Pakistan have intensified their cross-border artillery fire in disputed Kashmir. Nearly bankrupt, Pakistan may run out of foreign exchange by the end of the month, and the Karachi stock exchange imploded after...
...much about the roles top Serbian officials played in the Bosnian war, a credible assertion given that the accused killer works for Slobodan Milosevic's secret service. Though the Serbian Interior Ministry denies a connection, at least four other wanted men have been killed, including RADOVAN STOJICIC BADZA, the militia commander who became the Serbian Deputy Minister of the Interior and was gunned down last year in a pizzeria. Little wonder that the Hague's most wanted, Bosnian Serb leader RADOVAN KARADZIC and General RATKO MLADIC, remain in hiding...
...last week's cruise missile attacks on his camps, Afghanistan's Islamic leaders had a few quiet words with him. "I am angry because Osama is making anti-American statements from our soil and I stressed on him not to do so," said Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban militia's supreme leader. Bin Laden had agreed to "obey" the instructions and lie low, Omar added...
...should the Taliban, who roundly condemned the U.S. action against Bin Laden, be so upset at the terrorist chieftain? The Taliban is deeply dependent on financial aid from Saudi Arabia and on political and military support from Pakistan, and both nations are leaning on the ruling militia to rein in Bin Laden. The Taliban also wants to be recognized by the U.N. as Afghanistan's official government, especially now that it's squaring up for a confrontation with Iran. Bin Laden doesn't exactly have that many places to rest his head, so he will probably be persuaded to speak...
...portrayed a crisis in Sudan without adequately understanding the aid efforts of the U.S. government. Let there be no mistake: this famine was caused by protracted civil war and human-rights abuses by the Sudanese government, including support for scorched-earth militia raids in the famine zones, the bombing of relief centers and denial of access to relief supplies. These abuses have made the relief efforts in the country more difficult and dangerous. Last fall there was no possible way to predict the series of events that led to this tragic famine. USAID is the world's largest donor...