Word: babak
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...things against him should look at where they live." A laminated poster of the general in the mountains on a white horse hung on the wall behind Qaridyar. Asked whether, if Dostum requested it, he would switch sides and vote for Karzai's opponent Abdullah Abdullah, Babak Khan, a butcher across town, replied: "Anything he says, we will obey. If that means Abdullah, then yes, of course." Not that there's much chance of Dostum switching his allegiance. (See pictures of the run-up to Afghanistan's presidential election...
...President George W. Bush has lowered the standard of the presidency so much that everyone feels qualified to hold the office. Babak Roboubi Chevy Chase, Maryland...
...Iran's censors also seized the original negative of another entry, Babak Payami's Silence Between Two Thoughts; Payami reassembled the film from his computer files and showed it on video. The story is set in a country similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban, where fundamentalist clerics move into villages and set up a new Draconian order. The film's protagonist is one of their henchmen, who has been told to kill a young woman in custody for an unnamed crime. The woman is confined to a hutlike cage, where she breathes heavily; she is a wolf with...