Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
Just as the Serbs cannot tolerate a Muslim person in the Balkans, neither can the international community, led by Britain and France, tolerate a Muslim country as a wholly European neighbor. RASHID HAQ Tully, New York...
...years later, Awad was approached by a U.S. prosecutor. Would he enter the Witness Protection Program and testify against Rashid? Awad was told the Rashid case would be wrapped up in two years, after which he could receive a State Department reward of as much as $500,000. More interested in the prospect of U.S. citizenship than in a hefty reward, Awad asked only that he be able to live as well as he had in Switzerland...
...after Awad moved to America, he was shunted from city to city. Little effort was made to help him learn English or start a new life. In 1986 he quit the witness program and opened a convenience store. After Rashid was arrested in Greece in 1988, Awad was persuaded to return to the witness program. While Athens and Washington wrangled over Rashid's extradition for the next three years, Awad was refused a passport and permission to visit his relatives abroad. He grew so depressed that he threatened to kill himself...
When the trial began in Athens in 1991, Awad was flown to Greece on a military plane and housed on a U.S. military base in Crete. Despite the dangers implied by such heavy security, Awad did not flinch. His detailed testimony about Rashid helped put the terrorist away for 18 years. For his pains, Awad was told his reward would be delayed until after he testified again during Rashid's appeal. Even after that, the check was withheld for another eight months while government departments bickered over the amount. State officials backed the FBI's recommendation for a $1 million...