Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bids for American banks in the 1970s -- Abedi wouldn't reveal all the information they wanted -- he helped Saudi billionaire Ghaith R. Pharaon acquire the National Bank of Georgia in 1978 from Bert Lance, President Jimmy Carter's former budget director. Soon after that, Lance helped Abedi orchestrate a raid on Financial General Bankshares of Washington. The purchasers were four Middle Eastern shareholders of B.C.C.I. The hostile bid triggered a three-year court battle in which U.S. regulators accused the buyers of acting in effect as fronts for the unregulated B.C.C.I...
...exceeding the U.N. mandate for the ejection of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Also, highly publicized evidence of damage to nonmilitary areas is arousing concern. No matter how limited or inadvertent this damage may be, the vivid pictures of destroyed homes and children's bodies being removed from air-raid shelters are a propaganda victory for Saddam...
That line had some effect. For Saddam, the U.S. hit on the air-raid shelter that, Baghdad said, killed several hundred civilians was manna from propaganda heaven. For millions of people around the world, pictures of the broken bodies dug out of the rubble drove home the horror of a war that until then had seemed, at least on the TV screens, to be rather tame. One of the minor mysteries of the statement about potential withdrawal, in fact, was why Iraq diverted attention away from the civilian deaths before the reaction to them had quite built to a climax...
Media bashing has been on the upsurge since the start of the war. Don Wade, who hosts a talk show on Chicago's WLS radio, notes that journalists went from heroes to villains in a matter of days. "Here they were, crouching under the table during the first air raid," he says. "But after a few days people started to ask, 'Why are they being so antagonistic to our guys? Why are they so suspicious?' " CNN, whose special privileges in Baghdad have inspired charges that the all-news network is getting too cozy with the enemy, is suffering a mighty...
...Martyrs Bridge, damaged in a weekend raid, was destroyed early yesterday. Three of 6 bridges over the Tigris in central Baghdad are now destroyed...