Word: jamal
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...media in Kurdistan is extremely partisan and prone to propaganda. There are no independent television stations in the region, and the future is grim for independent radio news, according to Kurda Jamal, head of US-funded Radio Nawa. "Kurdistan isn't suitable ground for a free media," he said. "If America wasn't here and if America wasn't funding us, the parties would move to shut us down...
Dave Chappelle, Dead Prez, Talib Kwali and Mos Def. Particularly stirring is an interview with Notorious B.I.G. collaborator Lil’ Cease, a recounting of the F.B.I.’s murder of Fred Hampton Jr.’s father, and pleas for convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Fortunately, the artists are such gifted, energetic entertainers that their messages can be absorbed as part of the positive entertainment experience, without losing their potency.This is definitely tied to the fascinating dichotomy of Chappelle’s angry material and his clearly good nature. There’s no denying...
...ESCAPED. JAMAL AL-BADAWI, 36, al-Qaeda operative sentenced to death for masterminding the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; from a Yemeni prison, along with 22 other convicts; through a 460-ft. tunnel officials said was dug by inmates as well as conspirators outside the prison; in Sana'a. The carefully planned escape raised questions about whether al-Badawi, who broke out of another Yemeni jail in 2003 and was recaptured 11 months later, had assistance from Yemeni officials...
...ESCAPED. JAMAL AL-BADAWI, 36, al-Qaeda operative sentenced to death for masterminding the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; from a Yemeni prison, along with 22 other convicts; through a 140-m tunnel officials said was dug by inmates as well as conspirators outside the prison; in Sana'a. The carefully planned escape raised questions about whether al-Badawi, who broke out of another Yemeni jail in 2003 and was recaptured 11 months later, had assistance from Yemeni officials...
...allowed to enter Israel in 1996 so he could go to the Gaza Strip for a P.L.O. meeting convened to rescind an article in its charter calling for Israel's eradication. Of the three terrorists who survived the airfield firefight, one died of heart failure in the '70s. Another, Jamal al Gashey, appeared in the 2000 documentary One Day in September. Last summer P.L.O. veteran Tawfiq Tirawi told Klein that the third, his friend Mohammed Safady, was "as alive...