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...Halime Hassan Osman, Sudan is no place to pray. The wells that once supplied water for her daily ablutions now belong to members of the Janjaweed, a rampaging, government-backed Arab militia that has forced hundreds of thousands of black villagers like Osman to flee their homes in western Sudan. Osman, about 50, now lives in an unsheltered refugee camp in Mahatama, Chad. After a failed attempt to recover her belongings from her village, she prays in a dry riverbed along the border between Sudan and Chad. She and other elderly women are the only ones from the camp...
...That picture showed exactly the type of torture that Saddam's thugs used.The Americans promised us that things would be different than they were under Saddam. They lied." HASSAN SAEED, 27-year-old Iraqi, reacting to one of the images, which showed a hooded man standing on a box with wires attached to his hands. CBS reported that the prisoner was told he would be electrocuted if he fell...
...HUSAINI SISTANI by Hassan Fattah...
...Johanna McGeary and Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Brian Bennett, Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad
...sure, those values are conservative and often fundamentalist. His followers espouse the Islamization of Iraqi society and would limit the long-held freedoms of women in Iraq. But Sistani may yet rewrite the book on political Islam in Iraq, Iran and much of the Islamic world. --By HASSAN FATTAH, editor of the Iraqi weekly Iraq Today