Word: ittihad
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...intelligence agents from three countries comb the Mombasa rubble, an area group in their sights is the extremist al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), based in Somalia. With 2,000 members, it is the largest, most powerful radical band in the Horn of Africa and has been funded by al-Qaeda in the past. Its aims and activities have focused on Somalia, but U.S. intelligence has uncovered AIAI cells in Kenya. "It is possible this was the work of AIAI, done in concert with al-Qaeda," says an American intelligence agent...
...money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered money--possibly tens of millions of dollars a year--to a Somali affiliate of al-Qaeda known as Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya, or AIAI. One U.S. document says bin Laden and AIAI "benefit[ed] from every transaction," with AIAI typically taking a 5% transfer fee, some of which finds its way to bin Laden groups...
...When people heard a farmer was killed they attacked the settlers with axes, picks and rocks. There was hand-to-hand fighting," Aly said in an interview at Al Ittihad Hospital in Nablus...
...health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal capital of Al Ittihad. "The government is finished," said Bayoomi. "It is gone with the wind...
...revolutions within a single month have thus put the Baathists into power in two nations stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. The Baath party strongly emphasizes unity with all Arab states, including Egypt, but rejects dictatorship by anyone, ineluding Nasser. Its philosophy calls for ittihad, loose federation, and pledges overall allegiance to uruba, a pervasive Pan-Arabism. When news of the Syrian revolt reached the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a military parade was transformed into a victory celebration, with long lines of citizens and students snake-dancing through the city. In Cairo, Nasser's men hailed...