Word: jabara
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...Iraqi army officer who was present during the negotiations over election security in Khanaqin. "It was Bush, the father, who made a line [in 1991] where the Iraqi army was not allowed to cross. This town is south of the line. [Disputed polling sites in] Sheikh Baba and Jabara are south of the line too. They want to make the Kurdish government as big as they...
...prepared to take it on. You're going to see them pay a hell of a price." Officers in the new Iraqi security corps say the occupation is at a critical phase where the U.S. needs to ease up. "If they do not," says General Abdullah Hussein Jabara, who works with Iraq's security forces, "the bad feelings will continue to grow...
...unpredictable and extremely dangerous. But then, Leonard always seems more interested in sociology than suspense. His supporting cast springs from that circle where commerce, show business and crime are hard to separate. Casino Manager Jackie Garbo likes to impress visitors with his autographed celebrity photos. Bodyguard Moosleh Hajim Jabara strains parody as an Ethiopian-born retired pro-football player who changed his name to DeLeon Johnson. LaDonna Holly Padgett is a former Miss Oklahoma and Miss Congeniality well on her way to such titles as Miss Cordial and Miss Bloody Mary. The rub-out of a Mafioso in the mandatory...
...several problems with the NSA's structure. By shrouding the warrant process in secrecy, the government restricts the public from finding out or reviewing when and why wiretapping is authorized. The use of secret judges also distorts the warrant-requirement limits placed on domestic law-enforcement agencies. In the Jabara case, for example, the NSA supplied tapped information to the FBI, 17 domestic agencies and three foreign governments. The FBI, which never formally charged the lawyer with any crime, could not have obtained a warrant...
...dangerous potential of the NSA is obvious from incidents like the Jabara case. Congress should open an investigation of the NSA and its operations, especially the secret warrant process. If our government plans to expand its ability to keep track of its own citizens, the matter should at least be brought out into the open...