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...want to understand the complexity of the battles being fought in the Gaza Strip, take a look at Adnan al-Ghoul's resume. An activist in the first intifadeh, al-Ghoul was deported by Israel to Lebanon in 1992. There he hooked up with Hezbollah. Al-Ghoul sneaked back into Gaza City in 1996 with forged documents, but he still maintains close ties with Hezbollah - especially since he runs a major bomb factory in Gaza City, according to Palestinian intelligence officials. Al-Ghoul sells hand grenades for $50 and belts packed with TNT for use in suicide bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hamas-Hezbollah Rivalry Is Terrorizing Israel | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that one day this will be over. But this story has no end in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comforting The Afflicted | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...injustice. And in 131 stories of mostly poor men and minorities having their lives ended by the state, there might just be another ghost ready to rise up and haunt Bush all summer. While he's at the house, George W. should ask his dad about another political ghoul: Willie Horton. But the younger Bush's version would be an innocent man - and a deliciously handy martyr for Al Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Death-Penalty Ghosts Are Risen | 6/11/2000 | See Source »

RECENT LYRICS: "When I was very "There's a ghost down in CLUES TO MINDSET? young/Nothing really the hall...a ghoul under mattered to me/But the bed/There's something making myself in the walls/There's blood happy...Now that I up on the stairs." am grown/Everything's changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...also revealed the problem of the obstructing airbag. It was bad enough luck that one of the mounds of fabric was bunched up in front of a petal; far worse that it was the one petal that was supposed to allow the rover egress. "The great galactic ghoul had to get us somewhere," said Donna Shirley, J.P.L.'s Mars program manager and Sojourner's designer, "and apparently the ghoul has decided to pick on the rover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNCOVERING THE SECRETS OF MARS | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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