Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Ali S. Asani, a member of the Committee on African Studies, concurred with Mandela's view...
...friends, he is Mahmud the Red, a devout Muslim who came to America to work hard and raise a family. To prosecutors, he is a religious extremist who helped bomb the World Trade Center...
...will portray Abouhalima as a major player in the conspiracy. After the tower attack, they claim, he flew to the Middle East to escape. Abouhalima, for his part, says that during the bombing he was at home with his family in Woodbridge, New Jersey, observing the rituals of the Muslim holy season of Ramadan. His flight to the Middle East, he claims, was a pilgrimage to Mecca followed by a reunion with parents and siblings in Egypt...
Prosecutors will also rely on surreptitious tapes made by a Muslim informant, Emad Salem. However, the handful of typewritten drafts of tapes that have been obtained by journalists are sometimes vague about which Abouhalima brother they are referring to. When the tapes are introduced as evidence, defense lawyers will argue that Arabic is a language of fiery hyperbole and wild exaggeration...
...trigger-happy. Why, then, is Clinton marching resolutely toward the deployment of U.S. soldiers to help NATO police Bosnia? The President promised the forces once the warring parties all agree on a settlement. The one now about to be signed will dismember the country into Serb, Croat and Muslim zones and allow the Serb and Croat regions to secede in two years. Senior U.S. officials say enforcement should not be too bloody because all three sides will gain from peace. But reluctant units must be disarmed, thousands of refugees relocated and safe passage corridors patrolled in a land where bitter...