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...long taught in Iraq's schools have lost much of their meaning. And children do not get too many lessons in secularism at home. "When we were kids, my parents taught us that Shi'ites had the wrong idea about Islam but were just misguided, not bad people," says Ayesha Ubaid, 26, a Sunni doctor's assistant whose late husband was a Shi'ite. "But now I hear my brothers and sisters-in-law telling their children, 'Those people killed our uncle and two cousins and stole our ancestral home.'" Her son Mohammed, 8, returned from school one afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...member who turned during questioning, gave up the names and locations of six suspected cell members. Among them are two brothers thought to be central players in nationalist attacks on U.S. soldiers. Also on the list is the leader of their Islamic Army outfit, a man known as Abu Ayesha. The brothers are found in their family compound in a nearby village. Abu Ayesha is a different story. One of the homes near House 69 is said to be his. But although spotters have been positioned to catch anyone running from the battalion's advance, Abu Ayesha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunt for the Bomb Factories | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...someone else's name. Ryan saw through it. "Take Mr. Turban here," he orders, referring to the scarf around the suspect's head. "All that s___ was right behind his house--he knows something," he says. Under interrogation the man identifies himself as the weapons dealer working under Abu Ayesha and supplying arms to a host of divergent guerrilla and terrorist cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunt for the Bomb Factories | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...being, a discovery?a candle lit in the darkness." Asia has many paradisial spots of natural beauty, but when it comes to simple day-to-day survival, most of Asia is a living hell. Poverty, joblessness, political instability and corruption are the rule. Asia is no place to live. Ayesha Riaz Peshawar, Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...transfer from the West End to Broadway, the show has lost a lot of its Bollywood sass?American audiences don't know enough about Indian musicals to get the jokes?and, crucially, a half-dozen solid Rahman tunes. To compensate, there's a wet-sari dream embodied by sultry Ayesha Dharker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going West | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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