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...even here, there are student groups that implicitly condone the terror tactics of Palestinian extremists. The Society of Arab Students (SAS), Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), for example, are sponsoring a speech tonight given by Amer Jubran. Jubran, a Jordanian citizen who is currently facing deportation attempts by the FBI, INS and the Department of Homeland Security, appears to express his support and even admiration for suicide bombers and the attacks they carry out. Official literature produced by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine, an organization co-founded...
...Iraqis says that UNMOVIC is exceeding its brief, especially because they have been entering the hallowed presidential palaces - and now mosques. Presidential adviser Gen. Amer al-Saadi said that the UN was trying to make a statement. "It is an attempt to explore the mandate all the way. They were given a pretty powerful mandate and they are exercising it, regardless of whether it is necessary or warranted, " he said. Iraq, he added, was going to cooperate...
...coming nonetheless, either because their government will try to cheat the inspectors or because Washington wants to change Iraq's regime, no matter what. Iraqis aren't letting their worries paralyze them. "We're used to crisis, but we can't just sit here and die," says Amer al-Gailani, 21, a student at Baghdad University. "We are trying to enjoy what is left of our lives...
...head of UNMOVIC, the U.N. inspection team charged with overseeing Iraqi disarmament, Hans Blix arrived in Baghdad last week to face such momentous questions. After touching down at Saddam International Airport, Blix fielded reporters' questions before being whisked away to the Al Rasheed Hotel. Iraqi Lieut. General Amer al Saadi later hosted talks with Blix and praised the Swedish diplomat's "integrity and impartiality." Blix thanked him for his "warm welcome," but added a sly reference to Iraqi obstruction, saying he regretted that his team had been unable to visit Baghdad many months earlier...
...Blix, as head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held a preliminary meeting with Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. Then they had two rounds of talks with Saddam's point man, Lt. Gen. Amer Saadi, a British-educated engineer who once headed Iraq's weapons programs...