Word: bayan
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...chilling sign that Iraq is descending further into butchery - and quite possibly civil war. But almost as disturbing is the growing evidence that the massacres and others like it are being tolerated and even abetted by Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police forces, overseen by Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr. On his watch, sectarian militias have swelled the ranks of the police units and, Sunnis charge, used their positions to carry out revenge killings against Sunnis. While allowing an Iranian-trained militia to take over the ministry, critics say, Jabr has authorized the targeted assassination of Sunni...
...majority of them were believed to be Sunni and several reportedly showed signs of torture or starvation. It has only increased the public perception that the Interior Ministry, which runs the police, is under the sway of a powerful Shi'ite faction. The head of the Interior Ministry is Bayan Jabr, a man reportedly with ties to the pro-Iranian Badr Corps, the military wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Although al-Jaafari berated him after the discovery was made public, Jabr was apportioned his ministry by political agreement, and al-Jaafari, who is also...
...many as eight gunmen while driving in his jeep in western Baghdad--traveling alone in a city where foreigners of his importance are usually accompanied by heavily guarded caravans? One possibility is that al-Sharif was trying to hold secret talks with insurgents. Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, lent that theory some credence at a press conference. "Some [diplomats] go to places on their own in order to meet some insurgents," he said. "We warned about doing such things before, as the results could be very serious." An Egyptian official, asked about the speculation, said only, "We are talking...
...more than half moved away in the past 18 months as the conflict worsened. Recent clashes between soldiers and rebels have sent villagers fleeing in terror and, only days before, the corpses of two unknown men?slit from belly to throat and eviscerated?were fished from the nearby Kuala Bayan River. The military is now building a small post at Sarah Tebe. "I'm very glad the TNI has come," says M. Kasim, a 75-year-old former brickmaker living with his extended family. "They protect us day and night." Since the TNI arrived, many former residents are returning, while...
Even the most stonehearted landlord might have shed a tear or two when Bayan Jamay somberly led her final dance class last Tuesday night. Jamay had been a teacher at the Dancers' Group studio in San Francisco's Mission District for 22 years, long enough to watch her pupils raise children of their own. "This is like a family," said Jamay, dressed in black and weeping with a student on the stairwell. "I never dreamed I would have to stop teaching here...