Word: ath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trucks while clusters of fans linger under umbrellas looking très misérables. The cabbie didn't have to say a word: it's all too obvious Britney Spears isn't here. Instead, she's just up the street, ensconced in a suite at the superluxe Plaza Athénée. Spears hasn't left the hotel since she checked in two days ago and began canceling her every public appearance, press conference and interview, leaving some 350 frustrated journalists cursing in a dozen languages. About the only outsiders allowed near her have been the stream...
...demonstrations of up to 20,000 in some cities declaring, “No to Saddam, No to America, Yes to Islam, Yes to Democracy.” Since then, guerrilla attacks on U.S. troops have increased precipitously. Rather than isolated attacks by remnants of the Ba’ath Party or foreign terrorists, it is becoming increasing clear that these attacks are a reflection of the widespread hostility of the Iraqi people toward the occupying forces...
Clearly, Baghdad Britney has two options, and they both involve magazine covers: pose nude and be forgiven, or end up like Uday and Qusay Hussein, smoked out of her Ba’ath loyalist safehouse in Tikrit...
...Saddam strove to overcome those disgraces by using Iraq's vast oil wealth to build the Arabs a formidable military machine. His rule was the product of a nationalist ideology that sought to liberate the Arab world by brutally controlling its people: Iraq's ruling Ba'ath party was founded in 1947 to promote an Arab renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran...
...Keen to show that the family women, too, know their way around an assault rifle, Muntaha arranges a demonstration at her office. Pulling some strings at the local Ba'ath Party office, she has two AK-47s brought to her office. She and her daughter, Sabreen, dress for the occasion in olive green military uniforms and black veils pulled across their faces to form masks. They then run through some basic drills they learned at rifle training two years ago. This includes dismantling and reassembling the rifles...