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...house where they were abused as children in 1996. By testifying now, they hope to find justice for themselves and four girls whose bodies were found in gardens of Dutroux's homes; he denies murdering them. Terror Errors SPAIN Judge Baltasar Garzón indicted fugitive Moroccan Amer Azizi on charges of helping to plan the September 2001 attacks on the U.S., making him the first person to be officially tied to both Sept. 11 and the Madrid bombings in March. Garzón's indictment also revealed that security services earlier let a number of key terror suspects slip...
...them was Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan who was one of the the first arrested in Madrid for the train bombings. After they picked him up, police found a note in his apartment bearing the cell-phone number of another Moroccan who had long been on their wanted list: Amer Azizi, a veteran of the Bosnian and Afghan wars in the 1990s, who is suspected of helping to organize a key meeting in Spain between Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 operatives in July 2001. So is AzizI the Madrid mastermind? That's not clear. He was among the six targets...
...place on the Olympic squad. Before her race in Islamabad, Muqimyar dreamed of winning a medal for her country. Now she's not so sure. "The other girls, they have been training for many, many years. I can't be discouraged because already we have come so far." Masood Azizi, who will be running the men's 100 m, is also chastened by his performance in Islamabad, and has adjusted his own goals for this summer. "When people think of Afghanistan, they think of war," he says. "Now we can show the world that we have peace." Azizi, 18, only...
...round game features an intriguing political matchup against Iran. The U.S.-Iran match was one of the first sellouts in France, which has a large contingent of Iranian expatriates. The Iranians, one of the weaker teams, can return home as heroes by beating the Great Satan II. Says Khodadad Azizi, one of Iran's top players: "The U.S.A. mistreated our country. In the war they supported our enemy, Iraq. That's why a victory against the U.S.A. will be a special victory." Iran's team prayed at the tomb of Ayatullah Khomeini before flying off to France. The U.S. sees...
...northern Tehran, probably the opulent mansion once owned by Hojabr Yazdani, a wealthy cattle breeder and industrialist who is now a fugitive from Khomeini's regime. They had been examined by the Algerian doctors, but the hostages had not been told that they were to be released. Ahmad Azizi, the Iranian government's second-ranking spokesman on the hostages, claimed later: "It would have been too painful for them if the negotiations had somehow broken down." Even when they were finally told that they were going home, said Azizi, "they did not believe it. They moved about like sleepwalkers...