Word: muslim
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Federal agents in the New York City area arrested eight Muslim extremists, including two who may have had a hand in the World Trade Center bombing, on charges that they planned to blow up the United Nations, two highway tunnels under the Hudson River and a federal building in Manhattan in which the FBI has offices. The group also planned to assassinate New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...independent nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina is about to disappear. Her ravenous Serb and Croat neighbors are closing in for the kill. The future of Bosnia's mainly Muslim population--if it has any--remains to be seen...
Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosnian leaders agreed to a cease-fire, despite the failures of the three that have preceded it during the past 15 months. At peace talks in Geneva, the Presidents of adjoining Serbia and Croatia suggested splitting Bosnia into three regions, each ethnically homogeneous. The idea was rejected by Bosnian President and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic. Lord Owen, the British mediator and co-author of an earlier, much more complicated gerrymandering peace plan, said the new idea might not be the fairest or the best but that "the Muslim government would be well advised to look very...
...Bosnia almost 10,000 U.N. troops help deliver relief under extremely dangerous conditions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has requested 7,500 more soldiers to enforce so-called safe havens around six Muslim towns under Serbian siege. But that plan was flawed from the outset: many fear the safe areas will turn into permanent refugee camps guarded indefinitely by U.N. soldiers. And it is proving nearly impossible to implement. U.N. troops are routinely refused access to Muslim areas by Serb commanders, cannot shoot unless fired upon or intervene even when they witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most...
...turn that every actress dreams of -- and practically every black actress in Hollywood wanted. Halle Berry and Robin Givens were among the finalists for the role that went to Bassett, best known previously for Spike Lee's Malcolm X, in which she played Betty Shabazz, wife of the Black Muslim leader...