Word: abdullah
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...Pope's visit to Jordan, where he gazed west out over the Promised Land from Mount Nebo, just as the Bible says Moses did some 3,200 years earlier, was blessedly free of political stress, since King Abdullah took up his late father's role as regional conciliator. Within minutes after John Paul's jet touched down on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, however, the band struck up Jerusalem of Gold, an anthem of Jewish attachment to the entire disputed city, whose eastern portion Palestinians want for their future capital. Israeli President Ezer Weizman, acting more...
When I saw him again five years ago, he seemed to have put the madness of the '60s behind him. He had converted to Islam while serving time in prison for attempted robbery and had changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. In 1981 he set up a mosque in an ethnically mixed section of Atlanta. He was dignified and extremely reserved--until a pack of neighborhood kids bustled in to buy candy at the nearby convenience store he operates. Their giggled response to his gruff teasing made it obvious that they adored him. I thought Al-Amin...
Cohen also conferred with Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, who last year was convicted in absentia in a French court for the 1989 midair destruction of a plane in which 171 people, including the wife of an American diplomat, were killed. The Americans never mentioned that incident. "What was the point of bringing this up?" asks the consultant who traveled with Cohen. "We wanted to establish a dialogue...
CHARGED. JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN, 56, Muslim cleric and onetime Black Panther formerly known as H. Rap Brown; with murder and aggravated battery after he allegedly shot at two sheriff's deputies, one of whom died of his wounds; in Atlanta. The officers were trying to serve Al-Amin with an arrest warrant. He is being sought nationwide...
...emphasis comes not a moment too soon: well over half of Jordanians are under age 16, and will soon be demanding a slice of the economic cake. To give it to them, Abdullah has devised a plan centered on a privatization effort that is almost unprecedented in the Arab world, where authoritarian kings and presidents have feared--with good reason--that economic freedom would ultimately weaken their hold on political power. Abdullah, however, is openly declaring his aim of bringing democracy to Jordan...