Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white gloves and full dress uniforms scandalized the city. No one thought he was inclined toward heroics until last week, when he surprised his colleagues, and perhaps himself. He risked his life, his honor and the U.N.'s dwindling credibility to stand with the thousands of people, mostly Muslim refugees, caught in the Serb siege of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia...
...trip to the now fallen Muslim village of Cerska earlier this month the general shocked others on the scene by saying he had not "smelled the odor of death" there. When he returned to the area last week, it was all around him. Serbian shells rained down, one a second at times, and 20 or more people died every day. Morillon drove in over a snow-covered mountain track and encountered the reality of Srebrenica: refugees trudging south from captured towns had swollen the population from 9,000 to as many as 80,000. Everywhere there were ragged, hungry crowds...
...attack two weeks earlier on New York City's World Trade Center, which the first Bombay bombing appeared to resemble, at first no person or group claimed responsibility. Speculation as to the bombers focused on, among others, separatist groups backed by Pakistan and Hindu and Muslim militants in the wake of sectarian rioting in Bombay last December and January that claimed 900 lives. By Saturday police were questioning several suspects, but no arrests had been made...
Coincidentally, 49 Muslim militants who have been charged with attacks on foreign tourists -- prime targets of late -- went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
...profile of the typical terrorist bomber. Ayyad's relatives depict the chemical engineer as a devout Muslim who had achieved the American Dream since immigrating from Kuwait eight years ago. In 1991 he became a naturalized citizen, earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and began work at AlliedSignal. A year later, his mother arranged for him to marry a Middle Eastern woman...