Word: hussains
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...purpose of the meeting, according to Tomsen, was to see if Massoud and Haq could forge a joint strategy against the Taliban. "The idea," says Sayeed Hussain Anwari, now the Afghan Minister of Agriculture, who was present at the meeting, "was to bring Abdul Haq inside the country to begin an armed struggle in the southeast." Still hoping for direct assistance from Washington, Massoud gave Tomsen all the intelligence he had on al-Qaeda and asked Tomsen to take it back to Washington. But when he briefed State Department officials after his trip, their reaction was muted. The American position...
...facing deportation were the first to leave the church. "The men sent abroad were heartbroken and crying," says Mazin Hussain, 28, an officer in the Palestinian Authority's drug-prevention unit. "They sacrificed themselves so the siege could end, for the sake of the people of Bethlehem." When the group of 26 militants entered Gaza by bus, they were greeted like returning heroes by the crowd lining the streets. That evening, military intelligence's Shatara, 23, chatted by cell phone with his girlfriend back in Bethlehem. "Yes, I've had a bath," he told...
When the Taliban were done dynamiting the two colossal stone Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, they partied hard. They danced, hooted and slaughtered a cow. But Syed Mirza Hussain wasn't celebrating. A Hazara Afghan with Mongolian features and a rusty beard, Hussain had been forced by the Taliban to pack explosives around the statues. The Taliban warned that if he refused, he would be shot. It was a threat that Hussain, a Shi'ite Muslim hated by the Sunni Taliban, took seriously. Earlier, a Taliban fighter had gunned down Hussain's two boys like stray dogs crossing...
...that wretched day in January 2001, Hussain found some small consolation in his secret. He is convinced that just a few meters away from where the Taliban were war dancing lies a third, giant Buddha hidden beneath the earth, wearing a blissful smile, unperturbed by the terrible destruction that turned his two sturdy companions into shimmering billows of sand. Hussain gestures to a cratered, rocky slope beside an ochre cliff face where the pair of 1,700-year-old Buddhas were blasted away by several hundred kilos of TNT. "Our Hazara ancestors have always known that there's another Buddha...
...Hussain would like to see all three Buddhas reunited. As a kid, he scampered around the hermit caves, and lazed with his friends on top of the biggest Buddha, admiring the lapis and gold rimmed frescoes of the ancient monks?and seeing his own Asiatic features mirrored in their faces. "The people who made these Buddhas looked like Hazaras," says Hussain. "That's why the Taliban hated them so much." Forced to help destroy the two standing statues, Hussain says he's ready to find their sleeping companion. If he succeeds, Bamiyan's Buddhas can perhaps finally rest in peace...