Word: khalil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some in Syria, peace will come none too soon. One day recently, a teacher named Naim Khalil, 38, piled his wife and kids into the car and drove out to a dusty hillside west of Damascus. He looked past some barbed-wire fences and a minefield at some cousins standing on another ridge in the family village of Majdal Shams, under Israeli army control for 32 years. Holding up a battery-powered megaphone, he yelled out greetings and asked for the latest news. "I've been doing this since I was a boy," Khalil explains. "This is how I told...
...wounded men--recovering at a local hospital--were identified as Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, both Palestinians carrying Jordanian passports. Did the two have links to the militant Islamic movement? Amid the squalor of their apartment were reportedly a picture of the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and a note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel...
...Officers shot and wounded two of the three Middle Eastern men in the apartment during the assault. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani said one was shot when he appeared to be trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried Jordanian passports, according to CNN. The third man reportedly had no identification papers. Police believe the three were planning to attack a nearby Long Island Railroad station as well as several subway lines. Although Guiliani said that there is so far no concrete connection between...
...Yemen: Call it the Trespasser mission. Three Yemeni men are suing NASA, claiming that the plucky Sojourner robot has been doing wheelies all over their front lawn. "We inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago," explained planetary landlords Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari in court documents. "Sojourner and Pathfinder. . . began exploring it without informing us or seeking our approval...
Five-year-old Zachary Khalil concentrated as hard as he could. He sniffed, bit his lip and, with a determined expression, plastered his cookie with a glob of chocolate icing...