Word: persianism
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...suspect tracked by Canadian intelligence made a phone call from Toronto to Afghanistan the weekend before the alert was issued, referring to an upcoming big event. Intelligence that U.S. spy agencies gathered in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf suggested the same. "It was going to be on a big scale," says an intelligence official...
...enemy’s peaceful observance of religious events is an admirable one, it is not one that has been acted upon in the past. Egypt, a member of America’s “anti-terror” coalition, and Syria, a U.S. ally during the Persian Gulf War 10 years ago, chose Yom Kippur 1973 as the appropriate day on which to launch an extensive combined assault on Israel’s northern and southern borders. Warring Muslim nations have not traditionally established ceasefires during their own holy month either. In the nearly decade-long war between...
...last time we had to have a discussion like this was during the Persian Gulf,” said City Manager Robert W. Healy...
...since the 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, which killed a high school teacher from Concord, N.H., who was a passenger on board, have American students watched such a personal calamity unfold live on television. The Persian Gulf War took place in a distant land. And while the Columbine massacre happened on student turf and was the product of obvious derangement, it did not carry the generalized threat of holy war against all Americans at any time and in any place. The magnitude and spectacle of last month's terrorist attacks means that children far from New York...
...crisis in the Persian Gulf entered its fourth week ... the region seemed poised on the brink of war, a prospect made all the more horrible by fear that chemical weapons might be unleashed not only against troops but also against hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians. The use of poison gas would be contrary to conventions ratified by virtually every nation in the world (including Iraq). Yet as American and Egyptian troops tried on their chemical-warfare suits ... and as civilians as far away as Tel Aviv clamored for similar protective gear, it was impossible to forget that Saddam Hussein...