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...ruthless Palestinian who killed over 300 innocent people throughout Europe and the Middle East over thirty years. Furthermore, the 9/11 Commission has stated that in the late 1990’s al-Qaeda operatives has gone to Iraq and Iraqi personnel had gone to Afghanistan in meetings arranged by Egyptian born Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is second in command of al Qaeda...

Author: By Kenny Smith, | Title: Iraqi ties to terrorism are real, despite Crimson Staff claims | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...four letter word rhyming with “puck,” the memorable Sol Rosenberg, an annoyingly shy, neurotic, Jewish man, á la Woody Allen, and the hilarious transsexual Jack Tors. Kamal’s participation is comparatively limited to infrequent characters like Tarbash the Egyptian magician and Ali Kamal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...conflicting trends. Abbas is unlikely to be openly challenged, but nor will he be allowed to ride roughshod over the agendas of Hamas or the militant rank-and-file of Fatah, with which he has previously clashed. Abbas would most likely seek to revive his previous attempt, with Egyptian backing, to negotiate a "hudna" (cease-fire) among Palestinian factions - a process contemptuously dismissed by the Israeli leadership who demanded an all-out war on Hamas. Right now, there's no sign of any plausible Palestinian leader willing to fulfill that demand. The preference of Abbas, or any other candidate capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next After Arafat? | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

Heaney warned against dependency on the written word, quoting an Egyptian myth to remind his listeners that literacy-—while increasing the potential for wisdom to be stored and passed on through generations—also produces forgetfulness. Because it is possible to read but not understand a text, Heaney claims, the mere visual perception of words can actually disregard much of the wisdom they contain...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heaney’s Poetry Makes Past Present | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Such synchronized attacks are a common al-Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS AL-QAEDA IN SINAI? | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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