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...came to Jamia Hafsa to interview its headmistress, Umma Hassan, for a story about Islam in Pakistan. Aman, a pretty 22-year-old student in her final year, was her translator. Before the interview started, Aman talked about her desire to live according to the teachings of Islam, and how angry she was that her government did not support her. Students and teachers from both the men's and women's schools have embarked on an antivice campaign in the capital, shutting down video and music shops for promoting un-Islamic behavior. Twice now, the female students have abducted alleged...
...Thanks be to God, now I'm leaving.' ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID, known as Chemical Ali, on receiving his death sentence handed down by the Iraqi High Tribunal on June 24. A cousin of Saddam Hussein, he was found guilty of orchestrating deadly gas attacks on Kurds...
...bank of the White Nile, sirens wailing. It halts at the city's conference hall. A short, slightly built man bounds out of a dark-tinted limousine and up the steps, heading to a tête-à-tête with Sudan's President, Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir. To the crowd of Sudanese gawking outside, the visitor needs no introduction. Bernard Kouchner is back on familiar turf...
...Thanks be to God, now I'm leaving.' ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID, known as Chemical Ali, on receiving his death sentence. A cousin of Saddam Hussein's, he was found guilty of orchestrating deadly gas attacks on Kurds...
...taught at Harvard.) President Bush announced new sanctions in May against 31 Sudanese companies. But Khartoum's officials say the U.S. has overblown the crisis and punished the wrong people. "The feeling is very negative and angry toward the U.S. now," Finance Minister El Zubair Ahmed Al Hassan told TIME...