Word: abdelal
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...Flight 103 bound for New York City from London, the only man ever convicted of the attack may be headed back to court for an appeal. On Thursday, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) announced that it referred the case of former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi back to the country's High Court system. The SCCRC said Megrahi, currently serving a 27-year minimum sentence, is entitled to a new appeal because he may have suffered a miscarriage of justice in 2001 when he was convicted by a panel of three Scottish judges...
...finally, Sadr's return comes at a critical moment for the Shi'ite coalition that dominates the Iraqi parliament. His only real rival in Shi'ite politics, Abdel-Aziz Hakim of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, was earlier this week diagnosed with lung cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in Tehran. If the illness forces Hakim to stay away from the limelight for extended periods, it will leave Sadr as the main voice of Iraq's majority sect...
...stinks of bodies under the rubble. There are many dead," said Mouein Safadi, 35, trembling with fatigue and emotion as he reached the first Lebanese army position nearly 200 meters from the edge of the camp. "There are tens of wounded, but nobody can reach them," said Nora Abdel-Wahad, a mother, 51. "There's no water, no food. We have lived three days with no electricity." A Palestinian employee of the U.N. agency responsible for the refugees said that the tiny medical clinic in the camp - home to some 40,000 people - had been completely overwhelmed. "The wounded cannot...
...There are tens of wounded, but nobody can reach them," said Nora Abdel-Wahad, a 51-year-old mother. "There's no water, no food. We have lived three days with no electricity...
...Instead, Caldwell announced the death of a third al-Qaeda leader - the organization's "information minister," Muharib Abdel-Latif al-Jubouri, who is throught to have orchestrated a number of high-profile kidnappings, including that of journalist Jill Carroll...