Word: imam
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...home by Christmas anyway. Blair's backbenchers quieted down - for now. - By J.F.O. McAllister Fresh Charges BRITAIN Prosecutors in London charged radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on 16 counts, including allegations that he incited his followers to murder Jews and other non-Muslims. Abu Hamza, a former imam at a north London mosque, has been in detention since his arrest in May on a U.S. extradition warrant. The British indictment will now take precedence. On the Alert SPAIN Antiterror police asked Switzerland to extradite Algerian Mohamed Achraf, alleged ringleader of a group of Islamic extremists suspected of plotting...
...realize the past has value," says Lim Huck Chin, a conservation architect. "Going out now has a more human face." See for yourself in one of these heritage hangouts. Saray: This palate-pleasing Turkish restaurant is decorated with hookahs and Turkey's famed Iznik tiles. The signature "Swooning Imam Beside Eggplant" dish comes with pita bread baked on the premises. An added bonus: in the evenings, erudite owner Fatima Chan holds forth on Ottoman art. tel: (60-3) 2694 9724 Bar SaVanh: Koi carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads combine to make Bar SaVanh the slickest place along...
...targets. As the traditional 40-day mourning period in Beslan came to an end last week, people across Russia were left worrying where Basayev will strike next. Basayev, a short, wiry 39-year-old, comes from a land famed for its anti-Russian insurgents. In the 19th century Imam Shamil, with whom Basayev shares a first name, led a decades-long revolt against the Czar. Russian forces finally captured his base in Dargo in 1845, but only after a disastrous campaign in which they lost 3,900 men, three generals and all of their supplies. Today, Vedeno is once again...
...around 70?and frail, relying on a walking stick. But the imam's voice is strong, and the some 50 men, women and boys crammed into a dingy room sit enraptured as he talks for two hours, waving his hands for emphasis and making eye contact with his listeners. The subject matter is familiar: verses of the Koran spliced with denunciations of the war the U.S. and its allies are waging against Islam; the suffering of Muslims worldwide; the sacred duty to struggle against those who would deny Muslims the chance to worship in peace. The preacher's voice...
...said to have been killed, and the city, for the most part, was quickly brought back under military control--with the Iraqi troops taking special care to seize Samarra's Golden mosque, denying the rebels the kind of rallying point they had had when they hunkered down in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. Although fighting continued throughout the afternoon and sporadically into Friday night, the enemy simply seemed to evaporate afterward. "By about [2:00 p.m.] they realized what they were up against and withdrew," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who led his Alpha Company of the 1/14 into...