Word: fatima
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warehouses at Baghdad's military airport. Early that year he met a handsome 30-year-old expatriate from Jerusalem named Mohammed Rashid. Awad knew Rashid was with the fedayeen -- freedom fighters -- but that was not unusual among Palestinians. Awad would go on picnics with Rashid and his wife Fatima, an attractive, Austrian-born woman with freckles, long blond hair and a healthy interest in firearms. Her real name, according to Western files, was Christine Pinter...
...Fatima Oufkir and family detained since...
...Oufkirs are victims of vengeance at its most perverse. Fatima Oufkir's husband, General Mohammed Oufkir, was Morocco's Defense Minister when air force leaders unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Hassan II on Aug. 16, 1972. General Oufkir was accused of complicity and the next day was found shot dead. Four days later, Fatima, now 54, the six Oufkir children, who now range in age from 21 to 37, and Fatima's cousin Achoura Chenna, 54, were put under house arrest and have been held since then without explanation, charge or trial in various houses and farms...
Perhaps if more people had listened to the Fatimites, the American excesses of the Cold War would not have happened. Although she condemned the evils Russia perpetrated, the Lady would not condone the use of violence to topple inhumane regimes. According to Sister Lucia, when the Lady at Fatima was asked what she thought of the United States, she just smiled. God and his saints do not take sides...
That is the message of Fatima...