Word: hassan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fear of kidnapping is pervasive. To hide their wealth, many Iraqis choose to live well below their means. While on R. and R. in London, I met Hassan, a Baghdad businessman (he asked that his full name be concealed for his protection) who said he had "made millions" since the fall of Saddam, importing consumer electronics like refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners. But his modest single-story home in the middle-class Yarmuk neighborhood still looks as it did when he inherited it from his father, an army captain. "I won't even put on a fresh coat...
...While young people sporting the ubiquitous T-shirts bearing the image of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah have expressed their anger on Syria's streets, the official media was somewhat mute on events in Lebanon. In the capital the first night the border was bombed, cabdrivers and caf? owners knew about the hits, but they were not reported on the state-run media - typically the first to run with lurid tales of alleged Israeli aggression. Although the regime benefits domestically from its identification with the popular Hizballah, it can't afford to be dragged into war by an outraged public...
...They both say they are happy with the way the war is proceeding and believe that Hizballah's hit-and-run tactics are succeeding against Israel's technological superiority. But they say that Hizballah's leadership has exercised some restraint. "Sayyed Hassan could have ordered a rocket strike on the petrochemical plants in Haifa, but he didn't," says Abu Mohammed, referring to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader. He adds that Islam teaches them to treat people with love and as brothers. But what about the firing of rockets into towns and cities in Israel? "This...
...Bint Jbeil was a prime target for the Israeli army. The largest Shi'a town in the border district, Bint Jbeil is populated with staunch supporters of Hizballah, whose fighters are battling Israeli forces. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's secretary-general, gave his victory speech here in May 2000 after Hizballah succeeded in driving Israeli troops out of their occupation zone in south Lebanon. Then, Nasrallah had described Israel as being as weak as a spider's web. Yet while Hizballah's anti-tank-missile-wielding guerrillas had inflicted high casualties on the attacking Israelis, the battle had left...
...prisoner exchange, the Lebanese government--including its Hizballah ministers--backs these ideas. "There is total unity [in the Cabinet] about a cease-fire and a package deal," Lebanon's Interior Minister, Ahmad Fatfat, told TIME. That position was confirmed to TIME by sources speaking for Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who is in hiding to avoid Israeli assassination...