Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York police tightened Wall Street security after learning Muslim extremists have ordered an attack on the "heart of American capitalism" to take place during the ongoing trial of 11 men charged withplotting to blow up city landmarks, Newsday reported today. The newspaper quoted unidentified law enforcement experts as saying they received "uniformly credible" reports that a group of terrorists was ordered to carry out a high-profile attack during the trial. Police already had put private security forces on alert as the second anniversary of the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing approaches. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen...
...worst bombing in three years of bloody insurgency. An explosives-filled car blew up in a busy Algiers street, killing 42 people and wounding 286. No one claimed responsibility for the action, but Algerian authorities blamed Muslim extremists who have been fighting to establish an Islamic state. An estimated 30,000 people, including 80 foreigners, have been killed since the fighting between militants and government security forces began...
...nightfall in the marble palace of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, an unusual gathering of Middle Eastern leaders sat down for iftar, the meal that breaks the daylong Muslim fast during the holy month of Ramadan. It is traditionally shared with family and close friends, but at Mubarak's side were not only Jordan's King Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, but Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as well. His inclusion was meant to show a new level of acceptance for Israel among the Arab leaders who have signed formal peace agreements with the country...
...worst bombing in three years of bloody insurgency. An explosives- filled car blew up in a busy Algiers street, killing 42 people and wounding 286. No one claimed responsibility for the action, but Algerian authorities blamed Muslim extremists fighting to establish an Islamic state. An estimated 30,000 people, including 80 foreigners, have been killed since the fighting between militants and government security forces began...
America's biggest terrorism trial opened in a New York City courtroom as prosecutors began making their case against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other Muslim men who are accused of having plotted to blow up key New York City landmarks in 1993 as part of an alleged holy war against...