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He turned to radical Islam as a teenager, joining Egyptian Jihad in its struggle against the US-backed dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In the 1970s and 1980s they turned briefly into a violent cockpit of the cold war as Marxist-inspired guerrillas battled US-backed tyrants.

Apec leaders said they would examine "options and prospects" for a US-backed proposal to create a Pacific-wide free-trade area.

She revealed the loss of her Nobel medal in an interview on Radio Farda, a US-backed Persian language station.

This was why the US backed plans to give China and other emerging markets a much bigger say in the International Monetary Fund.

The US backed reports last week that China had used a ground-based medium-range ballistic missile to destroy a weather satellite.

Mourners also chanted slogans against the US-backed Al Saud royal family.

But if the US-backed production goes ahead, its directors will leave the picturesque landscape of the peaks behind to shoot it in China.

The Taliban have been waging a nine-year battle to overthrow the US-backed government and expel the 130, 000 foreign troops there.

In a US-backed project, it will store 100, 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually in a nearby saline aquifer.

US backed Iraqi forces were on hand in the region to prevent attacks on religious pilgrims.

December US backed anti-Taliban forces capture Bin Laden's base in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan, but find no trace of Bin Laden