Word: hassan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week, over 30,000 Darfurians, mainly from the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups, have been massacred by the Janjaweed Arab militias, which, thanks to the financial support of the central government in Khartoum, have been ravaging the western region of the country since November. Stirred by President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir’s incitements of ethnic and racial hatred, Janjaweed fighters were given $100 each, supplied with heavy arms and told that whatever they pillaged would be theirs to keep. They have raped, massacred and destroyed at will. They have stolen international food aid and used...
...Tarek Hassan, the owner of the Tannery, said his business had increased 10 percent since last year because of the popularity of Arches and sneakers...
...Reported by Aparisim Ghosh/Baghdad; Hassan Fatah/Amman; James Carney, Matthew Cooper, Eric Roston and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...With reporting by Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; Vivienne Walt/Baghdad; Hassan Fattah/Amman
...connection." Although Allawi has sniped at the U.S.-led Coalition in recent months, it's his ties to Langley that seem to have registered with Iraqis. (His organization, the Iraqi National Accord, is funded by the CIA.) "He's a CIA man, like [Ahmed] Chalabi," said Raed Abu Hassan, a Baghdad University political science post-grad. "In this country, CIA connections are political poison." It doesn't help that the Shiite Allawi is also a former Baathist, and a returning exile. Many Iraqis are scornful of politicians who left the country during the Saddam...