Word: ghassan
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...Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.) in London says, "We are getting a significantly higher level of contacts from regime insiders, including very senior ones in circles around Saddam." Sometimes, this official claims, such contacts have been in telephone calls direct from Iraq, something the I.N.C. hasn't seen before. Ghassan Atiyyah, a former Iraqi diplomat who edits the Iraq File, a monthly newsletter, in London, says his answering machine has taken messages from people inside Iraq telling him of the movement of weapons...
...nights later, Lina Ibrahim and her friends were even nicer. After inviting me to join them for iftar at Al Gouta, they proffered an endless supply of soft drinks and sweets. At the evening's end, Roua Ghassan, a 20-year-old medical student, handed me a ceramic key chain after stripping off her own keys, laughing, "We have to give you a souvenir of Iraq...
Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...Ghassan Elashi, a Palestinian, has been in the U.S. for 23 years. A father of six and a devout Muslim who runs the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, he is also a proud U.S. citizen. But lately he has stopped jogging and lives in fear that his teenage daughter--who wears a hijab, a Muslim head covering--will be attacked on the streets of their hometown, Richardson, Texas, a Dallas suburb. Managing the nation's largest Muslim charity, he says, has become a "very, very dangerous" business...