Word: mourad
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...that only Iran -- in addition to Israel -- is believed to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons. In spite of its severe problems of debt and unemployment, the Iranian government has not reduced its spending on arms programs. "Iran wants to be the most powerful military presence in the gulf," says Mourad El-Desouky, a military expert at Al Ahram Strategic Studies Center in Cairo. "It wants nuclear weapons for deterrence and to intimidate its neighbors." He believes that the Iranians have the money to go shopping for plutonium and weapons-grade uranium from Russia's black market in Western Europe...
...terrorism cases, charged Carlos in a 1982 Paris bombing that killed a pregnant woman and injured 63 other people -- one of several cases he may stand trial for. Carlos has hired the flamboyant French lawyer Jacques Verges, who defended the late Lyons Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. His other attorney, Mourad Oussedik, today began a p.r. campaign with a claim that his client had been illegally "taken against his will, tied up and drugged" by French counterterrorism agents in Sudan, instead of simply turned over. Not likely, says TIME senior correspondent William Rademaekers, who says the French tracked Carlos for years...