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KILLED. ABU AZZAM, whom U.S. and Iraqi officials describe as a top al-Qaeda lieutenant in Iraq; in a shootout with U.S. and Iraqi forces who tracked him to a high-rise Baghdad building and shot him when he opened fire...
...sympathetic to the insurgency, is mainly psychological and spiritual. Besides the Koran, he says, "I read about the history of jihad, about great martyrs who have gone before me. These things strengthen my will." One popular source of inspiration for suicide bombers is The Lover of Angels, by Abdullah Azzam, one of Osama bin Laden's spiritual mentors, which tells stories of jihadis who died fighting Soviet occupying troops in Afghanistan. And Marwan is listening to taped speeches that address subjects like the rewards that await warriors in heaven. In recent months, jihadist groups have also begun showing recruits lurid...
...channel gradually attracted international brands and boosted its revenues threefold by, among other things, making deals with parent companies rather than with regional subsidiaries. Although al-Jazeera is subsidized by the Qatari government, it has attracted advertisements from Nokia, Olympus, Sony, Adidas, Hyundai, Jaguar and others. But, says Pierre Azzam, regional director in Dubai of the advertising agency Impact-BBDO, ads on al-Jazeera seem to have dropped since the 2003 Iraq invasion because of political sensitivities--a claim that al-Jazeera denies. Nonetheless, anticipating commercial resistance to the English channel, Parsons is offering discounts to advertisers willing to sign...
...Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. AZZAM EL-HAIT Cairo
...Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands, and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. Azzam El-Hait Cairo