Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, crippling e-mail systems around the nation. At the same time, other famous Melissas were engaged in more constructive endeavors. Actress Melissa Gilbert was shooting a CBS movie called Soul Collector, while rocker Melissa Etheridge performed at an event to raise awareness about the plight of women in Afghanistan. E! hostess Melissa Rivers, fresh from her marathon coverage of the Oscars, was at a clinic on horse jumping with her husband. No word on Melissa Manchester...
...homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black...
...Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter-in-law of former CIA chief Richard Helms. Its protest outside the party was menacing enough so that Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls) was too shaken to perform. Helms, who lives freely in a New Jersey suburb, is convinced the Taliban is good for Afghanistan and that life is better now that someone is in charge after years of civil...
Kill one person and you'll go to jail; kill a hundred and you'll get a deal. That old adage of India's gangsters may apply equally to international terrorists. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced Friday that Osama bin Laden has been gagged and his activities restricted, but they continue to reject Washington's calls to surrender him for trial over the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa. The announcement follows a meeting with British officials earlier this week, at which the Taliban were asked to "get control of" the alleged super-terrorist -- an approach the Afghanis hailed...
...responsible for the killing of its soldiers in Somalia. God knows that we have been pleased at the killing of American soldiers. This was achieved by the grace of God and the efforts of the mujahedin from among the Somali brothers and other Arab mujahedin who had been in Afghanistan before that. America has been trying ever since to tighten its economic blockade against us and to arrest me. It has failed. This blockade does not hurt us much. We expect to be rewarded...