Word: khalid
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...course, the life of a desert billionaire does have its perks in addition to its quirks. Twice divorced (he has two children, Khalid, 18, and Reem, 14), Alwaleed is not currently linked with any woman. He laughs sheepishly when people tell him, as they frequently do, that he is the world's most eligible bachelor. In contrast to the stereotype of the whoring petro-sheik, he calls himself a "calorie counter" who doesn't drink or smoke and has an American's obsession with fitness (he now weighs in at 136 lbs.). His only vice seems to be, hardly surprisingly...
...February, Sunni Khalid, 38, the network's only black foreign reporter, filed a lawsuit charging that while based in Cairo, he was paid less than other foreign correspondents and denied a promotion despite a favorable review and several high-profile assignments. Khalid, who is a Muslim, also charged that foreign editor Loren Jenkins referred to Arabs as "rag heads" in a meeting--a claim NPR has acknowledged by disciplining Jenkins. But NPR managing editor Bill Buzenberg insists that Khalid "got to Cairo and never applied himself...
...four Sunnis executed for the Riyadh bombing was Khalid Said, 24. He had grown his beard in the Islamic way and cut his white cotton robe at calf length to symbolize the modesty of the Prophet Muhammad. Like 10,000 other young Saudis, he had signed up for Afghanistan and the holy war against the atheistic Soviets that was vigorously supported by the pious Saudi government. For Said, Afghanistan was akin to attending a university for terrorism and extremism. He learned to use a rifle and to prime explosives. He met militant Muslim activists from throughout the Middle East, listening...
...Khalid Mohammed Zai, 22, was a member of an Islamic paramilitary unit, based in Kulty Chawni in Pakistan's Punjab province. He says his unit was under the control of the ISI, and his mission, as it was explained to him and 1,000 other Pakistani fighters he says entered Afghanistan during the past two months, was to "go as a fighter and rise to a high position of influence." He was transported across the border by Pakistani military vehicles and, once in Kabul, received orders and money from the senior Pakistani officer in Kabul, a man named Naser...
...Khalid Channell, a first-year student at Stanford Medical School and a friend of Sanyika, told the Stanford Daily that Sanyika had missed classes after returning from spending winter break with his family in Altadena...