Word: aziz
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None of the three Vienna attackers carried identification either. But Austrian police were able to determine their names and ages: Abdel Aziz Merzoughi, 25; Ben Ahmed Chaoval, 25; and Mongi Ben Ab-dollah Saadqoui, 26. One of the two who were captured replied to questions in Arabic and claimed that he came from Lebanon. Wounded in the abdomen, he is expected to survive. The other was struck in the thorax and was in a coma. Austrian police said that all three were Arabs...
...about Saddam," says Haider, a Shi'ite pharmacy student at the University of Baghdad. "Such people should be driven out of the universities." Attitudes like that don't make for happy classrooms. "Students openly disrespect some professors, shout at them and insult them," says University of Baghdad President Mosa Aziz al-Mosawe. "Many of my professors tell me their students are getting out of control...
...drive, let alone vote, Saudi Arabia's top religious leader took one small step toward gender equality last week when he banned the practice of forcing women to marry against their will. Calling such coercion "un-Islamic" and "a major injustice," the kingdom's Grand Mufti, Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Asheik, proclaimed that fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates that...
...plan to revamp the domain of religious affairs to shield Morocco from the perils of extremism and retain Morocco's tradition as a country of moderation, tolerance and respect for other faiths. Terrorism is a global problem that requires a global commitment if peace and freedom are to prevail. Aziz Mekouar Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S. Washington Stubborn or Sour? Columnist Joe Klein's "the creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid" [March 28], on the Senate minority leader's success in blocking Republican-sponsored legislation, should have been called "The Sour-Grapes Obstructionism of Harry Reid." Why glorify Reid's antics...
...Everyone knows there is no democracy there." NAZRI ABDUL AZIZ, Malaysia's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) to block Burma's chairing of the group in 2006 unless it agrees to democratic reforms and releases opposition leader Aung...