Word: hussein
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...This is something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.' STEVE RUSSELL, a Republican state senator from Oklahoma, calling President Obama's televised back-to-school speech to children on Sept. 8 an attempt to create a "cult of personality...
...There are more than 700 women still in the prison who have got no one to pay for them.' LUBNA HUSSEIN, a Sudanese journalist convicted of wearing pants that were deemed "indecent" under Sudanese law. She was released from jail after her union paid a $200 fine...
...young man spent the tumultuous summer making Molotov cocktails used in the street demonstrations, spray-painting walls with antigovernment slogans and distributing leaflets supporting the leading opposition figure, Mir-Hussein Mousavi. But he was no ordinary hooligan: he also happened to be a top law-school student at University of Tehran, an idealist who was hoping to use his degree to really get under the regime's skin...
...Sadly, probably not. Those campaigners who were among the loudest in calling for the resignation of the police commissioner, Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, fear that his dismissal is merely an attempt by the government to paper over the problems that have plagued the police force for years. They say it may be part of a conspiracy to pre-empt demands for more radical reform that are expected to emerge in the coming days. (Read "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
...base for the controversial People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, also known as the MEK. A formerly-armed group that critics say resembles a cult, the MEK helped overturn the Shah in 1979, but in the '80s clashed with former Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and fled Iran. Saddam Hussein let the exiles set up bases in Iraq - Camp Ashraf is the last standing - and gave the group arms and training to help him fight his war with Iran...