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...villagers were receiving treatment. Among them was three-year old Rahmat Bibi, her legs broken and her head bandaged, crying aloud while asking to be taken to her dead mother, one of the victims of the air strikes. One-year-old Jan Bibi and her three-year-old brother Gul Khan were lying in the same hospital bed, unaware that they had been orphaned. Doctors said they were short of drugs, which wasn't unusual in a country that has been at war for the past 23 years...
...Salam mosque in Jersey City, N.J., was home to Omar Abdel-Rahman when he masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Two weeks ago in Texas, feds arrested two men witnesses say worshiped at the mosque. Ayub Ali-Khan--believed to be a trained pilot whose real name is Gul Mohammed Shah--and Mohammed Azmath were on a flight from Newark to San Antonio when the attacks began. After landing in St. Louis, they hopped a train, only to be arrested in Fort Worth with box cutters and $5,000 in their...
...sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya and the group runs inside a shop. They swing the shutters down and huddle in a corner. But then Nadiya begins crying. Outside, soldiers hear her. "They're in there," the soldiers shout, demanding the occupants open the store's shutters. Gul...
...burial, Gul says the authorities are claiming that Nadiya and Yusuf were caught in cross fire between security forces and separatist rebels. But he and other villagers are adamant there was no firefight. They say a policeman protecting the homes of minority Sikhs discharged his rifle by accident and the soldiers, on patrol nearby, thought they were under fire. "Even if there was a militant attack, who did they kill?" asks Nadiya's father, Nazir. His wife, Misra, looks at a picture of her dead daughter and begins to cry again...
...peacekeepers are the occupiers. The electoral process they oversee is impressive. Near Angkor Wat, Sajjad A. Gul, a Pakistani, says Cambodians have told him they really do want to vote -- though some of them wish they could vote for UNTAC. As of mid-December, UNTAC officials could take satisfaction from the fact that 4 million of an estimated 4.5 million prospective voters had been registered...