Word: tribalized
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...Afghanistan last week. "You should know that the entire world is outraged," he told a group of refugees at Sadda, urging them in effect to reclaim their land "because God is on your side." After lunching in the mess of the famed Khyber Rifles, Brzezinski was garlanded by area tribal chiefs and had his picture taken at the Khyber Pass, quipping that it would be "a historic picture-three weeks before the march on Kabul." He spotted a Pakistani soldier carrying a Chinese-made rifle and asked to see it fired. The heavy recoil knocked the embarrassed rifleman...
...Fahd has contemplated setting up a consultative assembly that would be a quasi parliament composed of both elective and appointive officials. According to the prince's plan, three-quarters of the assembly's members would be modern, educated Saudis, and the remainder would be unschooled but respected tribal leaders...
...more conservative groups, including religious and tribal elements, have challenged the wisdom of the government's high-production policy at a time when 1) the country needs to produce only 6 million bbl. per day to maintain current budgets and 2) the U.S. has been unable to secure autonomy for the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and return the Muslim shrines in the Old City of Jerusalem...
...thousands of other Afghans who have fled into Pakistan as refugees. At night, though, in the amber glow of their charcoal braziers, the bearded faces turned as fierce as their vows of continued "holy war" to rid their homeland of the Soviet invader. "O mujahidin,"shouted a wizened tribal elder across the campfire, "even with only our curved swords, we must fight to the death...
...mujahidin- Muslim "holy warriors"-had converged on the Pakistani city of Peshawar last week for a gathering of the clans aimed at solving one obstacle border the success of their insurgency in Afghanistan: disunity. Torn by tribal rivalries going back centuries, the rebels hoped to form an umbrella alliance of their six loose groupings comprising more than 60 different tribes. A united front, it was thought, would not only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes...