Word: anwar
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Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) stops at a gas station near the Army base where her family is to spend the next month. In the restroom she is surprised by a large man who stifles her cries and whispers the warning "They get you when you sleep!" His words are like a bedtime story's ultimate threat: Keep listening to this tale, my child. If you nod off before the end, you could...
...fire that consumed the stolen Chevrolet ambulance was so powerful that it vaporized the vehicle's upholstery, so there was not much left of Anwar Aziz, the man inside: only a carbonized corpse, its left foot dangling out the driver's door. Aziz would not have wanted it different, however, for he had set out that day to be Gaza's Dec. 13 martyr...
...birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...
...Since 1948 we have never been happy," she said. "We have no land, no security, no hope, no future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison in the Negev desert. He was released only last April...
...shared a four-room cement blockhouse with 16 relatives. The room he lived in with his wife and two young children is decorated with the wooden model of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, which he completed in prison. Intissar, Aziz's 22-year-old widow, said, "The day of Anwar's martyrdom was the happiest day of our marriage...