Word: kahar
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...days, and the use of control orders to incarcerate suspects in their own homes, have been directed solely against their communities. The killing by police of an innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, wrongly assumed to be a suicide bomber, and the recent shooting of Mohammed Abdul Kahar during a raid on his family home in east London - police later admitted that the raid was "wrong," as a suspected chemical bomb was never found - have reinforced these fears. Yet many of the measures taken by the British government, its domestic intelligence service M15 and the police have been sensible...
...Kahar al-Rawi, a relation of Nabil's, also thinks he would have known had Baghdad revived its WMD efforts. A professor of economics, he was a top financial adviser to the regime and knew the government books well. He says he would have known if money was disappearing into a black hole created by a special weapons project. Similarly, Iraqi scientists note that their community is small and tightly knit; most of them studied together and worked together. If a new, secret WMD program had started up, they argue, certain core players who held the necessary expertise would have...
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