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Mukhtar is an infantryman in Afghanistan's rebel army. He can shoot a man in the beard from a standing position at 200 m or point out camouflaged Taliban bunkers through miles of dust. His platoon leader says the green-eyed soldier is the finest he has ever commanded, and Mukhtar takes the compliment with a shrug of his skinny shoulders. "I have been in the army for a long time," he says. "So I should be good at my job." Indeed, Mukhtar is a four-year veteran of Afghanistan's draining desert war. But he is only 15 years...
...Frankfurt last Dec. 26, they arrested two Iraqis, an Algerian and a French Muslim, but they didn?t get "Meliani" himself - Algerian Mohammed Bensakhria. The Spanish police did, acting on German information, on June 22, by which time the formerly sleek 40-year-old had grown a scruffy beard and melded into the transient worker milieu of Alicante. He now awaits trial with his "brothers" in France, accused of planning an attack on the marketplace in front of Strasbourg?s cathedral. German police have seized a video shot from a moving car, laying out the approach and escape route...
Abdel Hamid Shaari, president of the institute and meeting place, motions with his head toward the trio - one with a long dark beard, the other two without - huddled in conversation. "Look at those three," said Shaari, an affable Libyan-born architect. "They might be talking about their families or last night?s soccer match or bin Laden. How should I know their discussion...
Sporting a scruffy, graying beard and a short ponytail, Cambridge City Council candidate James M. Williamson does not have the clean-cut look of a typical politician—something he takes pride...
...Tokyo celebrating his work?is finally a reality. But it's Sept. 12, the day after terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington took the lives of thousands, and the 60-year-old director is angry. His mouth is set in a straight line behind a bristly white beard and he grinds out a cigarette butt and raises his voice: "How can you ask me meaningless questions about my work when we are standing at the edge of a precipice...