Word: shahs
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...Contemporary political Islam first exploded onto the world stage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, which destabilized the politics of the Islamic world for almost two decades. That outcome was caused, in part, by the fact that the authoritarianism of Iran's pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, tolerated no democratic challenge to his regime...
...Although the Taliban frequently claims to keep bin Laden in a box, in practice it has defended him. Opposition sources say a brigade of his fighters has been on the front lines in the Taliban's war against the Northern Alliance, led by Ahmed Shah Massood. (In what may turn out to be an indication of trouble to come, Massood was the victim of a suicide bomber two days before the attacks on New York and Washington. After days of conflicting reports, his death now seems certain...
...Afghanistan, what will be your attitude to Osama bin Laden?" They didn't wait for an answer. One of the two French-speaking North African men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding the man they had journeyed across the globe to meet: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the ragtag Northern Alliance that is fighting a civil war against the ruling Taliban militia. Immediately, the finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion in the country's Amu Darya valley was drowned...
...outskirts of the key Taliban-held town of Mazari-aI-Sharif. However, under pressure from Russia - and following Sunday's secret talks in Dushanbe between Russian Chief of the General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin and the new Northern Alliance commander Mohamed Fakhim-Khan, who has replaced the slain Ahmad Shah Masood - the Northern Alliance has changed its previous stand on the U.S. military presence...
What do Muslims and Arabs at Harvard have to say about this tragedy and their being thrust into a contemptuous limelight? Fifteen Minutes gathered a group of eight Muslim Americans and Arab Americans from across the Harvard community to find out. The eight consisted of: Saif I. Mohammed Shah 02, President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS); Zayed Yasin 02, former president of HIS and president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross for the past two years; Rita Hamad 03, president of the Society of Arab Students; Yassine Daoud, second year student at Harvard Medical School; Laila...