Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...their scorn for the deadline before it had even passed, members of Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim fundamentalist group, decided to deploy a weapon only recently borrowed from Muslim radicals elsewhere -- the suicide car bomber. So early Monday morning at a highway intersection just outside the Gaza City limits, Aziz sped the ambulance toward an Israeli patrol. The soldiers opened fire, and the bullets ignited canisters of propane that Aziz had packed inside the auto. Three Israelis were slightly wounded...
...More people will side with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The p.l.o. has no power," said an unemployed agricultural worker in the crowd that watched Aziz's corpse being lifted from the blackened wreckage. Israeli soldiers holding assault rifles stood around the crossroads, where faded Palestinian flags drooped from the rooftops. "Get moving. Get off the streets," a loudspeaker on an Israeli jeep warned loiterers in Arabic...
...Jabaliya, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and the 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...
Perhaps the biggest public embarassment for Murphy, however, was the special detail he ran to protect Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud during His Highness' three-month stay on the top two floors of the Charles Hotel...