Word: akbar
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...armed with a modest arsenal of rocket launchers and AK-47s. As the patrol neared Sangin, Mahmad, 22, heard gunshots. He looked up to see that the man riding next to him was dead. Soon they were surrounded by Taliban guerrillas who had charged from the hilltops shouting "Allahu akbar." Five policemen were killed before commanders called in air support and backup from Afghan army soldiers and U.S. commandos. Later that day, at a triage center in nearby Gereshk, Mahmad pulls up a sleeve to show where a bullet grazed his arm. In four years' policing one of the country...
...Once again, Jihad Momani, addressing his Muslim brothers, articulates this sentiment in the clearest fashion: “Who harms Islam more? This European guy who paints Muhammad or the real Muslim guy who cuts a hostage’s head off and says, ‘Allah u akbar?’ Who insults our religion, this guy or the European...
...From the moment he came to power in a surprising election victory last June over Ayatollah Khameini's preferred candidate, Ahmedinajad has been assailed from two sides: the Old Guard of clerics who backed the candidacy of former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and mistrust Ahmedinajad as a young upstart; and the Reformers who had rallied around his predecessor, Muhammad Khatami, and don't like his revivalist radicalism...
...They were yelling 'Allahu akbar [God is great]!' and then were slowly buried. I saw them buried alive." SARYONO, a fruit farmer from Cijeruk, Indonesia, where 200 people were believed to have been killed when a landslide engulfed his village on the island of Java "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." MARTIN TOLER JR., one of 12 American miners who died last week after an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia, in a scrawled note found with his body...
...Utero,” The Luxury will do Oasis’ “Definitely Maybe,” and Velvet Morning will take on Radiohead’s “OK Computer.” 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 8 p.m. (CEJ)Hyder Akbar. In his memoir, “Come Back to Afghanistan: A Californian Teenager’s Story,” Akbar tells about his experiences as a teen living in a suburb of San Francisco whose life changed drastically when his father became Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top spokesman. Harvard...