Word: abdullah
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...Tribal elder Haji Obeidullah claims the Dutch troops should have arrived much sooner and came only when the situation turned critical. "It was only when the tribes came to [local police chief Toor Abdullah's] aid that he was saved," he says. "People are calling the Dutch cowards." It's not the first time the Dutch have heard such criticism. But it's unfounded, says Lieutenant Colonel Wilfred Rietdijk, leader of the Provincial Reconstruction Team. "For months we've been fighting every week - planned and forced," he says. "We've heard all kinds of things: other coalition troops come here...
...address one of the Sunnis' key grievances, but will it really help bring the violently opposed sides closer together? Early signs are not good. Salim Abdullah al-Jubori, a parliamentarian and Accordance Front spokesman, said the issue of tens of thousands of Sunni prisoners held without trial remains a major division. "Unfortunately, we are not seeing any kind of flexibility from the government," he said. And right on cue, shortly after Rice left the Green Zone, a volley of mortars went flying in. No one was sure who fired them...
...Bush received his warmest welcome in Saudi Arabia, where King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud accorded him an honor reserved for special friends by inviting him to his horse farm outside Riyadh. But the Saudis didn't hesitate when it came to publicly disagreeing with Bush's views on various Middle East matters. Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, standing beside Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, pointedly declined to endorse her call for more Arab gestures toward Israel or her relatively rosy assessment of political reconciliation in Iraq. After Bush jawboned the Saudis about increasing oil production to bring down...
...Iraq war was about Bush's freedom agenda, Arabs wonder, why has the White House stood by so quietly as pro-American authoritarian Arab regimes have jailed democracy activists, as happened to former presidential candidate Ayman Nour in Egypt? The White House stresses Bush's admiration for Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and the country's baby-step municipal elections in 2005, yet Washington is silent about the systematic repression of women and minorities permitted in the name of religion in the Kingdom. If any Arab leader today deserves to be called a democrat, it's Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad...
...State. Scapegoating Israel and the Jews became a means of deflecting attention from the mounting failings and weaknesses of those regimes, very much the way that scapegoating the Jews served some Christian and anti-Semitic rulers in their time. Arab leaders who sought peace with Israel, such as King Abdullah I of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, were assassinated by rivals. Religious and secular factions competed with one another over whose aggression against Israel was bloodier and more intimidating.Moreover, the war against Israel required the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs to permanent refugee status, lest their...