Word: salahuddin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America. The prime suspect in last month's killing of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Shah official, is Daoud Salahuddin, who was once Nahidian's bodyguard...
...prime suspect: Daoud Salahuddin, 29, believed to be a security guard at the Iranian interest section at the Algerian consulate in Washington. Although Salahuddin was born David Belfield in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., he had taken a Muslim name about five years ago and had been living at Islamic House, a home for Muslim students and a center for anti-Shah activists. He had been arrested briefly in New York City last Nov. 4-the date the U.S. hostages were seized in Tehran-for having draped an anti-Shah banner from the Statue of Liberty. Police arrested a postal employee, Tyrone...
...assassination attempt against former Prime Minister Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb, the Washington slaying aroused speculation that the long arm of revolutionary vengeance had reached all the way from Iran. Police officials, so far, have no concrete evidence to link the crime to Tehran. But one thing is certain: Salahuddin was a devout believer in Khomeini's gospel of killing one's enemies...