Word: shahs
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...lawlessness that characterized Kabul before the Taliban took control. "There is no question of any repetition of the events that took place in Kabul before," promises Mohammad Da'oud Askaria, the director of the academy. Northern Alliance representatives have also been cozying up to former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is favored by the U.S. to lead a broad-based post-Taliban administration...
...American presence is not just protection for the status quo,' says a businessman. 'We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government.' From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah [of Iran]-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. 'If there's an internal threat to the kingdom,' says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, 'it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers on the left...
...dislodge the Taliban from their entrenched mountain positions. As the opposition pounded Taliban lines north of Kabul, more than 1,000 tribal elders, former mujahedin and other Afghan exiles assembled in Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss the post-Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call a loya jirga, a grand council, to shape the country?s future government. But in a sign of the difficulty of building consensus, the king did not send an envoy and the Northern Alliance was not represented...
...warning from bin Laden military chief Mohammed Atef that Aghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, "like they were in Somalia." A letter of recommendation from al-Siri is alleged to have helped ease the way for two suicide bombers posing as journalists to see Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern League commander fatally wounded by them just two days before the World Trade Center attack...
...leading member of a Cologne-based extremist group. Five people arrested in separate investigations in Sarajevo Oct. 23, 2001 Yasser al-Siri, who runs the extremist Islamic Observation Center in London, is arrested. He is alleged to have provided references for two terrorists who assassinated Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud in early September