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...Grand Mosque of Mecca standing before the ancient Kaaba, a rectangular stone room sheathed in black silk and cotton embroidered in gold with Koranic verses. I am about to perform one of the most significant duties of a Muslim: to circumambulate the Kaaba seven times, counterclockwise, after proclaiming, "Bismillah! Allah-o-Akbar!" (In the name of God! God is Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among Many, Many Believers | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...like you’re crazy. All right. Play along. Say something bleepin’ crazy. “I want Lennox Lewis,” you scream. “I want to rip his heart out! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Mike Tyson's Memento | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...Local Afghans said that when the Americans burst into the school, they found Afghan fighters sleeping and began spraying the beds with gunfire. A guard named Hamdullah, who evaded the attack by hiding in a ditch, told TIME he heard men inside the school plead, "For the love of Allah, do not kill us. We surrender." According to villagers, the Americans shot most of their victims at close range. After two hours, the commandos choppered out; an AC-130 gunship hovering overhead then incinerated the school and several former Taliban vehicles with howitzer cannons and machine guns. "The cars were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The U.S. Killed The Wrong Soldiers | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...want to cleanse my body and mind,” Mackey said. After the first day of class, he smoked an entire eighth of an ounce of marijuana, ate three plates of boneless spareribs from the Kong and passed out in a pool of pork juices. “Allah doesn’t really see everything, right?” he said...

Author: By Gossip Guy, | Title: Gossip Guy! | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving into a ditch, where he cowered for ten minutes, listening as his friends were shot. "I could hear them crying, 'Allah help me,' " he says, "They were saying, 'For the love of Allah do not kill us.' " According to one translation of Hamdullah's account, he claims to have heard the men plead, "We surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the U.S. Killed the Wrong Afghans | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

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