Word: farah
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...most chilling detail of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut is that in his last seconds the suicide bomber was smiling. Bassamat al-farah, it is called. The smile of joy. Suicide bombers are taught that they are guaranteed immediate admission to paradise, where 72 black-eyed virgins await their pleasure...
...elements or schoolyard bullies but from himself. He has bitten his arms in the past and scarred his scalp by tearing out his hair. In his native Pakistan, his relatives think he is possessed by demons. "They said an evil spirit was making him hurt himself," says his mother Farah Choudhry. In the U.S., his affliction is known as autism...
...child who hurts himself and a man who hurt others. Together, they are forcing the Immigration and Naturalization Service to re-examine the rights of the mentally disabled. Farah Choudhry is appealing for asylum on her son's behalf, claiming that his autism is so misunderstood that he will be persecuted if he returns to Pakistan. De Santiago is asking not to be deported, contending, through his lawyer, that the abuses at Mexico's mental institutions are tantamount to persecution...
Should they account for Umair's? With her husband and two sons (the older is Ahsan, 15), Farah Choudhry sought medical treatment for Umair in the U.S. on two previous trips. Last year she left her husband, country and life of financial security in Karachi for the modest two-bedroom apartment in Chicago that she shares with her sons. "I couldn't take it anymore," she says. "My close friends would say, 'The mad boy is coming' and hide their children so that his shadow would not come to their children." To appease her relatives, she dragged Umair to religious...
...country riven by civil war since 1991, lacking a government until elections were held two weeks ago, the Somali Olympic Committee has struggled to get even those two athletes to the Games. "We are a poor country," says SOC president Farah Addo, with great understatement. The IOC, which routinely offers assistance to smaller countries, granted the team $22,000. That covered the cost of travel, insurance and equipment. "But what about the three years preparing them, buying all the equipment, feeding them, keeping them in training?" Addo says. None of the major sporting goods companies has offered any assistance...