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...news back in Turkey," says Iraz Karan, 27, a Berlin-born Alevi whose parents come from Turkey. "The traditions that became Turkish Alevism exist all over the Arab world and are very diverse." Alevis follow the Shi'ite path laid down by Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali, but with a twist. "Orthodox Shi'ites say the entire Koran is the word of God," says Metin K??k, director of the Berlin center. "But we differentiate between Muhammad's inspired verse and the rules he came up with later on, when he was an administrator and warrior." That means...
...just meters away from people whose lives he is accused of tearing asunder in a 1995 bombing campaign in the Paris Métro. He showed no feeling save contempt. The alleged Islamist terrorist from Algeria - on trial last week with co-defendant Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem for three blasts in which eight people died and more than 200 were injured - dismissed both the charges against him and those in court who "claim to be victims of an attack." Insisting that "We are not the extremists here," Bensaïd, 35, refused to explain his illegal...
Spurred on by disturbing revelations since the Sept. 11 attacks of Yemen's connections to terrorism, President Ali Abdullah Saleh claims he wants to end the country's fabled history of lawlessness. It was one thing when tribesmen held foreign visitors for ransom; now it's clear world-class terrorists have been using Yemen for major operations and recruitment. "The President is declaring loud and clear: 'No to terrorism,'" says Faris Sanabani, a Saleh adviser and editor of the weekly newspaper Yemen Observer. "No one wants to wake up to the sound of an explosion...
...feels unbelievable,” Davies’ boatmate, Ali Cox, told the Associated Press. “It makes me excited for the future. It makes me proud of my teammates. It makes me proud to be an American...
...tourist industry is that it will take more than the eulogized legacy of an eccentric British officer to bring visitors back. Especially if a U.S.-led military assault on Iraq goes ahead and opens what King Abdullah II has described as "the Pandora's box of the Middle East." Ali is, it seems, in for serious earache for some time to come...