Word: abdelal
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...Take that hammer and knock yourself on the head." SADDAM HUSSEIN, former President of Iraq, addressing Raouf Abdel-Rahman, the gavel-wielding chief judge in his trial. Hussein, who has made frequent court outbursts, also announced that he was on a hunger strike...
...such conditions runs a high risk of rewarding fundamentalist groups that have little interest in tamping down anti-Western attitudes. The popularity of Islamists may be discomfiting to the West, but it increasingly seems to be the bargain required for implanting democracy in the Islamic world. Says Mohammed Abdel Koddus, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: "People are looking for alternatives, and the only alternative they see is Islam...
...Raouf Abdel-Rahman was appointed last month to head the five-judge panel. For security reasons, three judges are not identified and never photographed. Abdel-Rahman took over after former chief judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin resigned to protest meddling by Iraqi government officials. One of Saddam's lawyers claims that Abdel-Rahman, a Kurd from Halabja, has a "personal feud" with Saddam and isn't impartial. Abdel-Rahman has rejected complaints by the defense, declaring that "political speeches have no place in this courtroom...
...intelligence on the terrorists and to make arrests.He stepped up construction of a controversial barrier, started by Barak, that cut through the West Bank and walled out the Palestinians. In 2004, Sharon ordered the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and, later, another of the group's leaders, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, steps that previously had been considered too provocative. And he got results; the intifadeh never recovered its early strength, and Israelis regained their sense of security. Sharon succeeded at what many security experts said was impossible: he found a military solution to terrorism...
...quite the sort Washington is after. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which strongly opposes U.S. intervention in Iraq and support for Israel, won 76 seats in the first two rounds of parliamentary elections and could gain a total of 100 once the final vote is completed this week. Says Abdel Monem Said of Cairo's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies: "Everyone is surprised, perhaps even the Brotherhood...