Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 11, 1999
Afghanistan’s Taliban movement refused on Saturday to extradite Saudi exile Osama bin Laden to the United States to face charges of masterminding US embassy bombings in Africa last year that killed more than 250 people.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 11, 1999
Al-Arabi newspaper knew that the security authorities have only released 800 arrested members from Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya (the illegal Islamic group). The security authorities should have released 1200 arrested members last May. This decision led to a new internal crisis between the members of Al-...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 10, 1999
This article is a translation of "The faculty recruiting ’extremists’ " in Rose Al-Youssef, July 3, 1999, by Wa’el Al-Abrashi and was covered in last week’s RNSAW.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 11, 1999
Thousands of angry pro-democracy students threatened to take their protest to the streets of the capital on Sunday their demands were not met. Their demands included the execution of the hardline police chief, who reports to Iran’s dominant clergy. Moderate President Mohammed Khatami now faces...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators threw garbage and tear gas at secular Jews driving through their neighborhood during the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday [July 3?, 1999], police said.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
In an advance text of the [Roman Catholic] Pope’s remarks handed out to reporters, the Pope mentioned areas in Iraq, Egypt, and cities in the Holy Land ruled by Israel and the Palestinian Authority as places he would like to visit.
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
The Ministry of Public Works and Housing on Saturday awarded a local firm a JD 5 million contract to construct tourist facilities near the biblical site of Bethany where Jesus Christ was baptized. Ministry of Tourism officials said the development of the baptism site is expected to attract both...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 4, 1999
Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and his followers, blamed by the United States for 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, have set up operations at a new base in Afghanistan, the Observer newspaper said on Sunday [July 4?, 1999]. It said bin Laden’s new hideout was in hills a few miles south of...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1999
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1999
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...