Word: hassanal
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...drinking water runs out about 16 hours into the voyage, with the coast of Libya far behind and the old wooden boat chugging through the Mediterranean toward Sicily. But Abdi Salan Mohammed Hassan - a gangly, gentle, 23-year-old Somali man crammed into the open 12-m boat with scores of other Africans, all trying to smuggle themselves into Europe - isn't worried. It has taken him eight months to travel a 4,500-km route from Mogadishu and begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism...
...With reporting by Brian Bennett, Simon Robinson and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Hassan Fattah/Basra
...prisoner speaking on a smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse." On Sept. 19 guards at Maafushi beat to death inmate Hassan Eevan Naseem, a convicted drug abuser, sparking a riot in which three prisoners were shot dead. After Naseem's funeral the next day, a mob of hundreds rampaged through Mal?, torching and ransacking courts, election offices, police stations and other symbols of the regime...
...driven three hours to the site placed bits of rubble in a small plastic bag. "I will put it in my home," the student said. "It is holy." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Brian Bennett/Ramadi; Hassan Fattah, Romesh Ratnesar and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad; and James Graff/Paris
...Romesh Ratnesar. With reporting by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt