Word: abdelal
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...Captain Abdel Hadi was driving home from a long day's work as an officer in Iraq's new security force when gunmen pulled him over. Two white Oldsmobiles screeched around his Nissan pickup, and four men armed with AK-47 machine guns grabbed Hadi, blindfolded him and stuffed him into the trunk of a car. They drove him to a safe house in Fallujah, where, for five days in early August, he was tortured and interrogated by some of the insurgents who control the town. His captors, he says, beat his feet and legs with a pipe until...
...about $6 million in profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies, including some owned by the family of Civil Affairs Minister Jamil Tarifi, of profiting from the deal. Tarifi did not return calls requesting comment. Arafat has denounced the barrier, but Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Nablus academic who says he plans to file suit against politicians involved in the deal, says, "The scandal shows that all the Palestinian official statements against the wall are lies." --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Palestinian market. The rest, the report charges, went to an Israeli company in Haifa. The report doesn't say how much of around $6 million in profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies of profiting from the deal. Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Nablus academic who also plans to file a lawsuit this week against the politicians involved in the cement deal, says, if true, "The scandal shows that all the Palestinian official statements against the wall are lies." The Higher Islamic Council, the senior Palestinian religious body, issued a fatwa last month against...
...shouldn't forget that Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas leader who was killed in an Israeli missile attack [April 26], was a pediatrician. Pediatricians specialize in maintaining children's health and growth. They should have an underlying respect for human life. Where did Rantisi go wrong? When did he abandon nurturing life and turn to cultivating hatred among adolescent Palestinians, openly applauding young men for blowing themselves--along with the innocents around them--to bits? A destructive influence is now gone from the Palestinian fabric. LUCY RUBIN Pretoria...
...there had been no significant retaliation from Hamas after the assassinations of its leaders Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi. And some Israelis were beginning to wonder aloud if maybe, perhaps, there had been a "positive change" in Israel's war on terrorism, as Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cautiously told me. "It has been very difficult for Hamas to respond because the security measures we take are very effective," he explained...