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...Saudi native Osama bin Laden and carried out by 15 Saudi militants, ensured that Fahd would go down in history as the Saudi ruler who turned a blind eye to growing Islamic extremism. To protect the regime from spreading Islamic revolution following Ayatullah Khomeini's overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Fahd gave the Kingdom's ultra conservative Islamic establishment the green light to promote an ever rigid Wahhabi form of Islam so long as it continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Moreover, the losses are accelerating. In 1991 the Municipal Corporation of Delhi tore down much of the outer wall of Qila Rai Pithora, one of the city's last surviving pre-Islamic structures. Shah Jahan's great Shalimar Garden, where Aurangzeb was crowned, now has a municipal housing colony on its land. This March, there was an attempt to concrete over the sultanate-period Hauz-i-Shamsi in Mehrauli...
...make our cut? More than 3,600 readers have e-mailed their responses to our list of the All-TIME 100 best films, as chosen by TIME's movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. Not surprisingly, reactions to their choices ranged from happy appreciation to utter dismay. Rohan Shah of Jersey City, New Jersey, said, "What a great list, with a truly global outlook! I was pleasantly surprised to see the inclusion of Bollywood movies, like Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy." Sean Williams, of Los Angeles, wrote, "I have 1,000 favorite films, so I know how hard...
Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
Prosecutors said the undone deals involve a veritable supermarket of weaponry: 18 F-4 and 13 F-5 fighter aircraft, five C-130E transport planes, more than 20 helicopters and thousands of missiles. Iran spent $17 billion on U.S. military equipment under the Shah in the 1970s, and is desperate to get new supplies and parts to continue waging its 5½-year war of attrition with Iraq. It stands ready to deal with anyone who can deliver...