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...They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world. JALIL KHALAF, Iraqi police commander in Basra, on British forces withdrawing from the city and surrounding province...
...custody in France and has admitted ties to al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab admits to knowing Ganczarski, but "Does that mean I'm a terrorist?" he asks. "Then why don't [the German authorities] charge us? They don't charge us with anything, but they make our lives difficult." Norman Ali Khalaf, 41, a chubby man with a goatee, is a biology teacher at the school and head of the local Muslim political party FAKT. His Egyptian wife, Ola, dons neither a veil nor a head scarf. She serves guests sweet Arabic tea and fresh dates from Saudi Arabia. The couple...
...Musawi, imam of the Imam Ul Huq Ali Mosque, and a group of Kalashnikov-toting volunteers from the impoverished Sadr City area of Baghdad, known until the city's liberation as Saddam City. It is from here that many of the looters came as well, and, says Ahmad Khalaf, 26, a software-engineering student, "we want to show the world that not everybody from our neighborhood is a thief and a looter...
...P.L.O. delegation traveled to Egypt last week and won President Hosni Mubarak's support for a plan to "offer through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...
...when Arabs ambushed and killed six Jewish settlers in the city of Hebron. One month later, two car bombs went off on the same morning, severing both legs of Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus and blowing off part of the left foot of Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf. Every few months fresh blood was shed: a settler would die after being knifed or hit by a rock, then an Arab would be killed by a booby-trapped grenade hidden among stones. In 1983, three Arabs stabbed a Jewish student to death in Hebron's marketplace; three weeks later...