Word: dubliners
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...Bogert spoke to The Crimson from a conference in Dublin that brought together 110 nations to sign a treaty to ban cluster munitions, a weapon that explodes in the air and disperses a number of “bomblettes” over a wide area. She said the treaty had given her hope for progress on human rights in the coming century. But she said human rights activists are not as blindly optimistic as some people believe...
...maximum flight time of three hours, microjets will shuttle corporate executives over most of Western Europe. Given that they can land on short runways, they can also use secondary airports that may be closer to customers' final destinations. Blink will fly 45 Cessna Mustangs, and later this summer Dublin-based Jet Bird will launch a rival European shuttle service with 100 Embraer Phenom 100s. More operators are expected as manufacturers such as Adam, Hondajet and Eclipse bring new microjets to the market...
Young Fatima Mussam is scornful of the Shi'ites. The 16-year-old left Mosul in 2002 because her family anticipated the war. She refers to her Shi'ite classmates in Dublin as "acquaintances," not friends. "I won't be deliberately rude to them but I don't like them," she says. Mussam blames the sectarian violence in Iraq on the Shi'ites. "They started...
...stands the Ahlul-Beyt Islamic Center, the only Shiite house of worship in Ireland. There, Imam Dr. Saleh and Ahmed Ali flip through Arabic satellite channels and drink tea, recounting tales of fleeing from Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's persecution of Shi'ites. Although Ali, 39, came to Dublin in 1999. At that time, there was peaceful co-existence between Shi'ites and Sunnis. He says one could even crack Shi'ite-Sunni jokes in mixed company. That is no longer true. "They cannot handle it anymore," he says of Sunnis. He saw relations begin to deteriorate in Dublin...
Imam Ali Saleh flips through Arabic news channels, looking for the most recent news from Iraq. He says that in every Iraqi refugee household in Dublin, families are tuned into images of Baghdad. "Sectarian feelings are inherent," says Imam Saleh. He points to the Irish conflict between Catholics and Protestants. "We are living between people who have suffered from sectarian violence," he says. "We should learn from them...