Word: tanzania
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...evoke an old-world flavor. Portuguese-style whitewashed mansions?remnants of the colonial era?crowd the harbor front. Ancient forts crown the heights, securing dominance over the lucrative spice trade between Arabia, Africa and India. From here Oman controlled an empire that stretched from Zanzibar, now in modern-day Tanzania, to Baluchistan, now part of Pakistan...
...explosion that killed 16 people outside Africa's oldest synagogue was deliberate and said the act was planned by a man suspected of links to international Islamic groups. Investigators said the blast, caused by an exploding fuel truck, was similar to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Police arrested an uncle of the truck driver, accusing him of complicity in the incident...
Three weeks ago, the trial of Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora for the murder of 800,000 people in 100 days was supposed to begin in Tanzania. However, his current boycott of the proceedings has led to an adjournment of his trial until September. Bagosora will be facing the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts...
...enough to convince Clinton to take a serious look at terrorism, what about the following bombings of American embassies around the world? In 1998 rocket-propelled grenades exploded near the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Beirut. Shortly after, al-Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, leaving 258 people dead and more than 5,000 injured. What was Clinton’s response? He blew up a pharmaceutical facility in the Sudan that he claimed was financed by Osama bin Laden. Later, serious doubts were raised about whether the facility was actually involved in terrorist activities, and more...
...United States enjoyed a decade between the fall of the USSR and Sept. 11 during which the threat of nuclear destruction seemed remote. While the fear of terrorism never went away—it hardly could between Oklahoma City, the Kenya and Tanzania bombings and the U.S.S. Cole—it never seemed more than a remote threat. Sadly, America is in a new era, and the government must plan ahead. For instance, according to recent press reports, the intelligence community believed for a number of weeks last October that terrorists had obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear device and planned...