Word: jabar
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...current Iraqi battalion commander in south Ghazaliya, Col. Jabar, has a much better reputation here than his predecessor. He comes from Basra, whereas his predecessor, Col. Sabah, grew up in a Shi'ite neighborhood adjacent to Ghazaliya. Both men are Shi'ites, but Jabar has no personal stake in Ghazaliya...
...They're not from the area," said Maj. Jim Orr, who heads the American team that advises Col. Jabar and his staff, "so they don't have any personal bias against the people or the community...
...Skip Johnson commander of the 187 Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad?s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working to compare known voice recordings and photographs with the prisoners in custody...
...Harvard women’s front court is to Ivy basketball what the Lakers’ trio of Kareem Abdul-Jabar, James Worthy and Magic Johnson were...
...rations, so it made sense for Uday and Qusay to wind up there. Qusay took his son Mustafa to the house, says the butler, "because he depended on him. He could go and switch on the generator or go shopping. His face is not very well known." Abdul Jabar Mohammad Arif, who owns a bread shop opposite the mansion, says he noticed nothing unusual until the night before the raid, when al-Zaydan came by to pick up 60 loaves of flatbread. Normally, his wife bought just four or five each day for the immediate family. "I thought...