Word: atta
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Most prominent is a German passport that appears to have belonged to Said Bahaji, 34, a member of the Hamburg cell that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks who was close to its ringleader, Mohamed Atta. The passport was apparently issued in Hamburg to Bahaji, the son of Moroccan and German parents, on Aug. 3, 2001. A Pakistani tourist visa valid for 90 days that appears inside the passport was stamped the following day. An entry stamp from Karachi dated Sept. 4, 2001, suggests that Bahaji landed in the Pakistani port city just a week before the attacks on New York...
...traitors. Their old foes too have not ceased to pursue longstanding feuds. An ex-Taliban commander, who goes by the single name of Gargari, says he has been afraid to return to his home in the northern province of Mazar-e-Sharif because he says that the warlord Mohammed Atta is threatening to kill him to settle old scores...
...ethnic Tajik city. At a girls school that had been turned into a voting station, Assadullah, 52, casually checked incoming voters on polling day Thursday. The Tajik security guard himself was a partisan of Abdullah Abdullah. In a way, he was following orders. Assadullah had once fought under Mohammad Atta, an ex-mujahideen commander who now governs the province and who has thrown his support behind Abdullah. Meanwhile, Palwasha, 19, a beaming first-time voter, giggled as she declined a request to reveal whom she chose. She was nonetheless grateful for the relative safety of her experience. "I've waited...
...morning ceremony with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, Obama was serenaded with an eponymous song in his honor by the local reggae star, Blakk Rasta. "In a dis ya time a black American president a great sign," read the song's lyrics. "Too long dem disrespect blacks and Africans combined." After the speech, Obama, his wife and children took helicopters out to the Cape Coast Castle, which for centuries served as a major Portuguese depot for slaves bound to America and the Caribbean. "I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are growing up in such...
...trip to Africa - his first as President - direct from this week's G-8 summit in Italy. The market stalls in the capital, Accra, are brimming with souvenirs, including a button with the words "God's Chosen Presidents," showing a montage of Obama and Ghana's new President, John Atta Mills, who took office in January, just two weeks before Obama's Inauguration. "The radio stations continuously mention his visit and play excerpts from his speeches almost nonstop," Ghanaian journalist Ebo Richardson wrote to me in an e-mail on July 6. "There are posters everywhere featuring Barack and Michelle...