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...Saddam speech was a pep talk for the troops. He urged continued resistance and praised the battle performance of Iraqi soldiers, paramilitaries, policemen and tribal warriors. The speech was punctuated by Islamic references and cries of ?Allahu Akbar? (?God is Great?). Saddam scoffed at U.S. plans for a quick victory, making clear that Iraq's strategy is to draw American forces into a military and political quagmire. "The enemy is working on making (the war) short," Saddam said, "and we, with the will of God, are working on making it long and heavy, so that the enemy will sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Addresses Iraqi People | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...IRAQI FLAG'S three green stars represent Iraq, Syria and Egypt-in anticipation of a political union that never came about. The phrase Allahu Akbar (God is great) was added among the stars by Saddam during the 1991 Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Up Close | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...were exhausted and wounded. Two who still had ammunition were mowed down. Five others, unarmed and defenseless, were holed up inside another room. Also in the apartment were a woman and her daughter, about 4 years old. As they were led away, a police officer says, the men chanted "Allahu Akbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda: Reeling Them In | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...that this would end up as a happy thing," she says. But eight days after she gave birth, police arrested Lawal, 30, for adultery, a capital crime under the Islamic law, or shari'a, in effect in her home state of Katsina in northern Nigeria. A courtroom crowd cried, "Allahu akbar (God is great)!" as a shari'a court last week rejected an appeal of her sentence. As soon as she weans nine-month-old Wasila, Lawal is scheduled to be buried in the ground up to her chest and stoned to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting Stones | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...kind of vicious innocence at work. The evildoers in the video seem to ask themselves, Who would have thunk??!! They are like nasty children who set a fire in the basement of the school...and cannot believe their luck when they succeed in burning the entire building down. Allahu akbar! The jihadniks burble about it in a wide-eyed way. To the evil imagination, this great, unlooked-for destruction is a miracle--all the more astonishing because it seems to accomplish, in this violent and profane world, a transformation of the same amazing order as that dream of paradise, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awfully Ordinary | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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