Word: arian
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...mogul has been hosting De Burgh in Iran this past week, and a concert tour planned for the fall would make the British singer the first Western pop star to perform in Iran since 1979. De Burgh will share the stage with Iranian pop giants Arian, on whose forthcoming album he has collaborated - in one song, De Burgh even sings "I love you," in Persian...
...government’s new strategy for the war in the Middle East to ambitious journalist Janine Roth, played by Meryl Streep. The plan, implemented as the Senator discloses the information to Roth, impacts the lives of two recently-graduated soldiers: Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña) and Arian Finch (Derek Luke), who are under active duty in the front lines of the War on Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline. The third and least thrilling story line (although no terribly high standards are set by the other two) takes place in the West Coast, as Professor Stephen Malley?...
...Because it couldn't prove al-Arian was "the most powerful man" in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as one prosecutor characterized him during the trial, or link him directly with any of the brutal killings perpetrated by PIJ, "this [was] a failed prosecution, period," al-Arian attorney Linda Moreno tells TIME. "[Former Attorney General] John Ashcroft announced the indictment three years ago on the steps of the Justice Department. Three years later, we have the Department of Justice recommending that Dr. al-Arian be sentenced to the lowest term possible and agreeing that this is not a crime of violence...
...really, however, a victory for al-Arian either. For decades, he'd insisted that he rejected the PIJ. But both his plea and wiretap evidence brought out in his indictment and trial severely undercut his image as nothing more than an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights, a First Amendment victim who had been made a handy political target for a government hungry for terrorism convictions...
...Arthury Lowrie, a former longtime U.S. diplomat in the Middle East and adjunct professor of international studies at USF who worked closely with al-Arian on U.S.-Muslim dialogue, told TIME after al-Arian's acquittal late last year, "I think the disgraceful, overzealous way the U.S. pursued this case has hurt its credibility [in the Arab world]. But Sami lied to me and his colleagues, and all the progress we made feels like it's all gone down the drain." Which is where the Feds and al-Arian have both apparently decided to let the matter...