Word: hassanal
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Trapped in a cave in Afghanistan, Lindh and his comrades had no way to escape, he told Abdelwahab Hassan. But they awoke one morning to the divine comfort of a Taliban soldier's dream, which promised that somebody would come for them in seven days. They counted each setting sun until, just as foretold, a rescuer freed them. Another time, while learning from al-Qaeda terrorists how to fire shoulder-launched grenades and ignite Molotov cocktails for the glory of jihad, Lindh witnessed the shooting death of a fellow believer. The smell of musk filled the air, and he recalled...
...vocabulary word or preparing a debate case, they are endlessly in motion, sliding back and forth across the classroom, jumping up from their seats, running in and out of our door. They scream, whine and fight unless I let Hermela, Mercedes and Shavon be one group, while Justin, Hassan and Elon remove themselves to the other side of the room...
...means some of the critical issues for both sides - immigration, the north-south poverty gap, drugs, and nasty colonial hangovers - won't be addressed, let alone resolved. Spain and Morocco have been, well, on the rocks ever since a brief honeymoon after Mohammed VI replaced his father, the dictatorial Hassan II, in 1999. Spaniards, and many Moroccans, hoped the new young King would be much more open to democracy and negotiation. But since then the two countries have fought over fishing rights (Morocco refusing them to the voracious Spanish trawlers), over illegal immigration (Spain accusing Morocco of doing little...
...linked to America's mistakes. "In the eyes of ordinary Afghans," says a senior U.N. official, "this government's fate is intertwined with the American performance." Afghan exile Hamid, a Pashtun now in Quetta, Pakistan, says of Karzai, "He is nothing. Just the son of George W. Bush." Yusuf Hassan, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), remarks, "There's a sense down there, rightly or wrongly, of an occupied country...
...this is especially worrying for King Mohammed VI, who ascended to the throne just three years ago upon the death of his father, King Hassan II. Discovering the al Qaeda connection in Morocco was a shock, adding another problem after massive street protests in support of the Palestinians, fresh political tensions with Algeria over the future of the disputed Western Sahara and unemployment hitting 25 percent in some parts of the country. Nonetheless, Moroccan officials say, the King is determined to keep his promise to support the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. By standing up to al Qaeda...