Word: hamdani
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...first we saw the U.S. only as an occupier," Sheik Hassan Khalid Shwerd al Hamdani told TIME Thursday after the ceremony. The sheik said he represented more than a million Iraqis of the Hamdani tribe, mostly Sunnis in and around Baghdad. "In the beginning, they listened to the wrong people. Now they listen to the real Iraqis. Now everything has changed and we are helping them." Al Hamdani said he spoke for the other tribes present when he said the U.S. troops are welcome "as long as they finish the job." He would not be more specific...
...large flatbed truck did not look out of place as it approached the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad around 4:30 p.m. The compound had regular deliveries, and construction work had recently finished on a new brick fence ringing the former Canal Hotel. Fawzi Sirhan al-Hamdani, who was waiting for a friend outside the building, glimpsed the driver, a young, clean-shaven man wearing a T shirt. Another man in the compound's parking lot says the truck veered, as if looking for the right spot to stop. Then, say both men, it slammed into a corner...
...flood? "It is natural to kidnap American soldiers because they have occupied us," says Tihan Alwan, a village elder standing outside the mosque at Halabsa, a town close to the place from which the two American soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going to kill them like sheep." Then he made one of those motions understood in all countries and all cultures--of a knife being drawn across a throat. --Reported by Joshua Kucera/Majar al-Kabir, Scott Macleod/Baghdad, Simon Robinson/Halabsa and Mark Thompson/Washington
...like the Texas you see in the movies." ENAS HAMDANI, Iraqi doctor, on the lawlessness in Iraq...
Nair explored patriotism in 11.09.01, a post-Sept. 11 collaborative project with 10 other renowned filmmakers. In exactly 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame, Nair chronicles the experience of a Hamdani family in Queens whose eldest son went missing after the World Trade Center attacks...