Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BEIRUT, Lebanon--Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric said yesterday that a Western hostage would be released in weeks, but urged a one-time swap involving the captives and Arab prisoners to end the crisis...
Sheik Ahmed Taleb, a Shiite Muslim cleric with ties to the kidnappers, said Saturday from his home in Jibsheet, south Lebanon that a hostage, probably a Briton, would be released...
...meltdown of Soviet communism will have disruptive consequences in the Third World as well. For starters, there should be a new designation, since there's no longer a Second World. Whether Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republics remain connected with Moscow or not, their Muslim populations will almost certainly turn increasingly southward in their political attentions, affiliations and machinations. That will make the Middle East an even more interesting place...
...B.C.C.I. is functioning as the owners' representative for Pakistan's nuclear-bomb project," says an international businessman who has worked through the bank to supply Pakistan's nuclear-weapons and missile industry. "In the West, Abedi presented one face, but in the Muslim world, he and his bankers have always promoted themselves as a Third World, Muslim bank that would eventually dominate global finances by using oil dollars and Abedi's network of influence. And he whispered in the ears of the sheiks and the generals that he would bring them the Muslim bomb...
...name, Ja'afer Dhaieh Ja'afer, is little known even in scientific circles, but U.S. intelligence sources have identified the Iraqi-born physicist as his country's version of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Ja'afer, a Shi'ite Muslim, is an outspoken human-rights advocate who has been jailed for his protests against Saddam Hussein's oppression. Yet he has been honing his country's nuclear capabilities since the early 1960s. He directed operations at the Osirak reactor until an Israeli raid destroyed it in 1981, and he later served as senior technician for the Tarmiya and Sharqat pilot plants, centerpieces...