Word: shara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reconciliation implied by the condemnation of Iran will take concrete form in the next two weeks. Diplomatic relations will be restored, common borders will be reopened, and a dialogue between the governments will begin. For the moment, however, ! Syria is not severing its alliance with Iran. Foreign Minister Farouk Shara'a said, after the summit ended, that "Syria is against condemning Iran because it wasn't the beginner...
...Sunday Times said Hindawi traveled on a Syrian service passport using the name Izzam Shara. It said that on an earlier trip to Britain, Hindawi used a passport that was signed by Andrew Balfour, then Britain's vice-consul in Damascus...
Tensions were further exacerbated over an incident involving a suspected Arab terrorist. The man, whose name is believed to be Fuad Hussein Shara, was suspected by American and British intelligence officials of planting a suitcase containing a bomb on a commercial flight from Athens to Tel Aviv. The bomb did not go off. Greek authorities failed to press charges against the man and allowed him to leave the country. But they expelled an American CIA agent for obtaining evidence illegally by breaking into the Athens apartment of Shara's unwitting British woman friend...
Greek authorities insist that the CIA's activities in the Shara case have undermined their own investigation. Said one Athens official: "The accusations that we are protecting terrorists are ridiculous...