Word: shi
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...attack, the entire plan collapsed. In the first stage, as planned, Talabani's 10,000 troops launched an opening skirmish against the Iraqi army's 5th Corps along the Kurdish border near Kirkuk. Barzani, who has a force of equal strength, refused to get involved in the coup. Shi'ite insurgents next failed to undertake their strike against Iraqi forces in the southern part of the country, and an Iraqi armored division that was to mutiny and march on Baghdad decided to sit it out. "It was the coup that never was," said a U.S. intelligence official...
Though Saddam has lately faced takeover attempts almost every three months, his personal security force has had little trouble foiling each one. Talabani and the Iraqi National Congress, the umbrella for all Iraqi dissident groups, had long hoped that a combined assault by Kurds in the north, Shi'ites in the south and mutinous troops in Baghdad could succeed. Last November, the head of Iraqi military intelligence during the Gulf War, Major General Wafiq Samaraii, defected to Kurdistan with a promise that he could deliver an Iraqi division willing to attack Saddam. A brigade would capture the Iraqi leader...
...fact, the barbarians are well established in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where...
Israel probably has more important targets in its long-running conflict with Hizballah, whose Shi'ite militiamen have been attacking Israeli troops in Southern Lebanon almost daily. But a look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting...
Jockeying for position within the upper ranks of the party has already begun. The man who seems best positioned to emerge on top is Qiao Shi, 70, chairman of the National People's Congress. Described as a "mystery man" because of his service in China's shadowy intelligence service, Qiao is a contender because he commands strategic loyalties among generals, police and party conservatives. He is also virtually untarnished by the Tiananmen massacre; unofficial accounts say he abstained from a Politburo vote on whether to send in the military. His leadership abilities and attempt to bring some clout...