Word: abdelal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Israel's assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas' leader in Gaza, has thrown the Islamic movement's chiefs into a panic. Coming less than a month after Israel eliminated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Rantisi's killing forced underground Gaza's political leaders. It also dangerously deepened fissures between the group's military and political factions. Fighters in its military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, fear that surviving political leaders are less committed than Rantisi was to attacking Israel, say senior Hamas sources in Gaza. Izzedine al-Qassam members want to strike back at Israel soon to avenge Rantisi's death...
Combining a business savvy with creative ingenuity, the group called upon various financial and creative sources to support the $15,000 production. The main sources of funding were “partly the U.C. and sponsorships,” says BlackCAST treasurer Abdel Reid ’06, “but also ticket sales—the models just selling, being out there...
...member of the Half-Asian Peoples’ Association, Miller is one of a diverse group of models who will represent groups such as the Black Student’s Association, the Association of Black Harvard Women and Men’s Varsity Basketball Team. Adds Abdel Reid, “You’ve got the Caribbean team, the BMF, finals clubs, black groups, Asian groups, and all these people are coming together to see their friends perform.” With the additional presence of the Men’s Varsity Hockey Team, who served as security...
...give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict was rocked by literal and metaphorical explosions last week. On Saturday night an Israeli missile struck a car carrying Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the vitriolic leader in Gaza of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Rantisi, a pediatrician who helped found the group in the 1980s, was killed along with a bodyguard and one other companion...