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Middle East History 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament. 1988 - Egypt and China announced that they would recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed by the Palestine National Council. 1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait. 1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden was the man accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. 2002 - The Iraqi government accepted U.N. inspector's right to make unannounced checks on special sites belonging to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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