Word: jassim
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...equally possible that he was just another victim of an ongoing campaign to eliminate academics - on Thursday, gunmen shot dead yet another prominent professor, Jassim al-Asadi, dean of the University of Baghdad's school of administration and economics. Al-Assadi, his wife and son were shot dead as they drove through the mainly Sunni Adhamiya neighborhood. The al-Assadis were Shi'ites...
...their part, Shi'ite politicians point out that thousands in their community have been killed in Sunni terrorist attacks since the fall of Saddam Hussein. "After every tragedy, every time that the terrorists pour [gasoline] over our emotions, we tell our people to be patient, to remain calm," said Jassim al-Mutairi, a political aide to al-Sadr. "But each time, we worry that the next [terrorist] attack will be the one to light the match...
...Thani, a progressive ally of the U.S.'s, who is known to be privately dismayed by some of al-Jazeera's shriller broadcasts, started replacing members of the seven-member board of directors with reformers favoring a more straightforward approach. The board ousted founding al-Jazeera managing director Mohammed Jassim Ali, a Qatari who championed al-Jazeera's aggressive style and anti-Yankee tilt. As al-Jazeera executives see it, the channel needs to be more in tune with the demands for democracy and reform that are in the air throughout the Arab world...
...interviews with some 20 Iraqis last week in Baghdad, not one gave the Marine in the mosque the benefit of the doubt. "I can only imagine how many other Fallujans were killed like that," said Jassim Abu Hamid, a schoolteacher. The outrage will probably grow once residents return en masse to Fallujah, a deeply conservative place known as the City of Mosques. Dozens of mosques have been hit by heavy fire, and some were obliterated. Journalists embedded with U.S. forces said some soldiers had urinated and defecated in mosque rooms where worshippers ritually cleanse themselves...
...scarves and didn't qualify for the next round of races, but they nevertheless set personal and national records, respectively. The Kuwaiti and Afghan sprinters crossed the line three seconds off the fastest qualifying time, yet they still made history as their countries' first female Olympians. Iraq's Alaa Jassim, whose 100-m training regimen was occasionally foiled by sniper fire and bombings, may have ended up eighth out of eight in her heat, but she left Athens feeling remarkably relaxed. "Before, if an Iraqi finished last in the Olympics, they could be thrown in jail and tortured," says Iraq...