Word: abdul
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...atrocities than during the free-for-all that roiled Kuwait in March, when vigilante groups joined Kuwaiti police and military officers in seeking revenge. The Palestine Liberation Organization estimates that about 400 Palestinians were killed then. "If anything, that figure is probably low by about 600," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the former Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs who continues to advise Prime Minister Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah...
Most of the opposition favors extending the vote to both later-arriving Kuwaitis and women, but there are indications that the Emir will steal their thunder by broadening the franchise himself. "We have botched almost everything since liberation," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the Prime Minister's adviser, "but through politics we now have a chance to recoup...
...region where personal suffering is often used as a yardstick of political legitimacy, al-Husseini's credentials are impressive. His father, Abdul Qader al-Husseini, became a martyr to Palestinians in 1948 during a battle between Palestinian and Jewish fighters in the mountain village of Kastel west of Jerusalem. The younger al-Husseini has endured continuous hardship since graduating from a Syrian military college in 1967. Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and an additional five years under house arrest. Since 1988, when Israeli officials shut down his Arab Studies Society, a research...
Alarmed by the aggressiveness of the religious extremists, 43 moderate businessmen and intellectuals petitioned Fahd to fulfill his pledge to make the government more democratic. "A Consultative Council is a symbol of participation that will help educate the public," says Abdul Muhsin al-Akkas, an executive of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "We are not yet ready for free elections, but it is a step forward." In response, the religious conservatives marshaled support in the mosques for the implementation of Shari'a. Last month religious leaders in the conservative stronghold of Buraida spread rumors that a popular sheik...
Moderates fret that Fahd will once again back down rather than confront the conservatives. "He will never fight them," says a Saudi intellectual. But failure to institute reforms now will only serve to encourage the extremists. Fahd's father, King Abdul Aziz, founder of the kingdom, did not hesitate to sever his alliance with the puritanical Wahhabi warriors when they defied his rule. As the struggle over Saudi Arabia's future intensifies, Fahd could do worse than recall his father's choice when challenged by his kingdom's zealots...