Word: sherif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hijackers and the 17 prisoners appear to share religious ties. Sixteen of the men jailed in Kuwait are Shi'ite Muslims who are thought to support Iran and its leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Hostages released from the jetliner said the gunmen often spoke in religious terms. Sherif Mahrojk Badrawi, a Kuwait Airways ticket agent in Cairo, called them "good Muslims" who "spoke to us in a very Koranic language. They were always using verses from the Koran." The hijackers are thought to belong to Hizballah, a radical Shi'ite group...
...Sherif Laoun Montreal...
...reinforcements into Lebanon. P.L.O. guerrillas, operating in and around the coastal towns of Tyre, Sidon and Damur, mounted a stubborn defense. Armed Palestinians and left-wing militia were holed up in thousands of apartments in west Beirut, vowing to resist to the death. Warned P.L.O. Spokesman Bassam Abu Sherif: "They can raid and shell Beirut until they destroy this city, but the Israelis will never enter Beirut. We will fight street to street, house to house, and we will defeat Begin in Beirut." Indeed, the P.L.O. had put up stiffer resistance at many points than the Israelis may have expected...
...Sherif Kerdany...
...place at the bargaining table "at a later stage, when some progress has been made." But P.L.O. leaders have long believed that Kissinger's past diplomatic efforts have left the Israelis more entrenched in the occupied territories than ever, and they were unimpressed. "Kissinger," complained Bassam Abu Sherif, spokesman for the hard-lining Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was "the wrong man to send. Nobody trusts...