Word: wahid
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...embassy battles began over Wahid Gordji, an interpreter and the son of a doctor who tended the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during a Paris stay in the late 1970s. French officials sought to question Gordji about bombings that killed eleven people and injured 161 others in Paris last year. Though Gordji has not been charged, he has reportedly been linked by police to a Lebanese who has been charged with complicity in the bombings. French authorities suspect that Gordji may be a leader of an Iranian intelligence network. Police surrounded the 19th century sandstone embassy after concluding that Gordji...
...hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student who serves as liaison between Jamiat units in Kunar and the headquarters in Peshawar. "But conditions are already so inhuman that I fear that many will starve...
...Fazli Wahid, the Haji (squire) of Turangzai was on the warpath with 10,000 bearded Afridi...
Through foreign office secretaries in London hinted at a Gandhi connection, the only thing that the fighting Afridi and the nonviolent disciples of Saint Gandhi have in common is a thoroughgoing distrust of the British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until...