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...bodyguard, that means police is watchin'/And I only use his waist to keep my Glock in," hip-hop star JAY-Z declared on his last album. That claim sounded eminently plausible last week, when police allegedly found a loaded Glock in the waistband of Jay-Z's bodyguard Hamza Hewitt after stopping a car containing the rapper, Hewitt and two other men. All four were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Jay-Z's lawyer stated that his client was not guilty, helpfully adding that "other celebrities have often used armed security guards...
...hero to us because he was always on the front line, always moving ahead of everybody else," recalls Hamza Mohammed, a Palestinian volunteer in Afghanistan who now manages one of bin Laden's construction projects in Sudan. "He not only gave his money, but he also gave himself. He came down from his palace to live with the Afghan peasants and the Arab fighters. He cooked with them, ate with them, dug trenches with them. That was bin Laden...
...that TV viewers scarcely had time to consider what they were about to witness. After CNN senior correspondent Christiane Amanpour warned that the following footage would be "very hard to watch," the TV camera cut to a home in Egypt's Sayedda Zeinab slum, where 10-year-old Nagla Hamza peered into the lens, her dark eyes excited and anxious. Cut to a crowded living room, where relatives smiled and ululated in celebration. As a voice-over explained that no sanitary precautions would be taken, no anesthetic applied, Nagla was tilted onto her back by two men -- a plumber...
...Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving as a go-between. "This wasn't a singular, aberrant event that we set out to sensationalize, and it wasn't our presence that caused the child physical jeopardy," says Steve Haworth, CNN vice president for public relations. When...
...this comes as a shock to Nagla's father, Hamza Sayed Eid, who told police he had never heard of CNN and claimed that he thought he was participating in a documentary on Islam. He also finds the uproar bewildering. As a Muslim, he believes he acted properly...