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...Amin cared) in the still-gleeful days of independence. Tanzania, as a result, got even more Indian emigres, making them seem all the more ubiquitous in a place where homegrown industry is scarce and commerce, through the market or small café, is highly visible. So, to each black Tanzanian I’ve talked to for more than an hour, I ask, “How do you feel about the Indians?”—and for this last part my voice transforms from that a brazen interrogative to an inquistive (and slightly sinister) whisper. They...
...CAPTURED. AHMED KHALFAN GHAILANI, suspect in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; following an estimated 16-hour gun battle with Pakistan security forces; in Gujarat, Pakistan. One of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, the Tanzania-born Ghailani (whose aliases include Ahmed the Tanzanian and Foopie) evaded capture for almost six years and is believed to be the most senior al-Qaeda official caught in Pakistan since the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, last year...
When Pakistani police nabbed Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Tanzanian al-Qaeda operative wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, they also brought in two South African men. Or did they? South African officials in Pakistan have yet to interview the detainees, who were carrying passports identifying them as Feroze Ganchi, 30, and Zoubair Ismail, 20. The families of two South Africans also named Ganchi and Ismail say the passports must have been stolen from their relatives, who went to Pakistan for religious studies. The families have not heard from the men in over...
...successful coup, then embarked on murderous campaigns against political opponents and rival ethnic groups that left as many as 500,000 dead. He also expelled tens of thousands of Asian traders, depriving Uganda of much of its business class. Amin was ousted at last in April 1979, after Tanzanian troops, responding to a Ugandan invasion, entered the capital, Kampala, and forced him to flee. --By Richard Lacayo...
...said the organization was originally a “young naturalist club” which got its start when she hosted a gathering of Tanzanian high school students interested in the environment...