Word: khans
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...list at a Brooklyn refugee center headed by several men convicted in the 1993 Trade Center bombing. Al-Hallak, who has not been charged in either World Trade plot, has denied connection to bin Laden and claims to have counseled el-Hage only on religious matters. Najam Khan, president of the group that runs the Arlington mosque, says it fired al-Hallak last year for neglecting his flock--before the bin Laden connections were known. "I don't think he was preaching violence per se," Khan says, looking mournful. "We feel this mosque is being targeted because of individuals...
Bathed in the television's fiery glow of images from the World Trade Center explosions, Pakistani banker Anar Khan turned to his four young sons curled up next to him on the rug. "See? Evil brings evil upon itself," he exulted. "This is Allah's punishment for the wrong that America has done to Muslims." It is easy for Khan to understand the mentality of the airline hijackers who unleashed their apocalyptic destruction on New York and Washington. He can comprehend how 19 educated men, despite having seen the world in all its wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers...
...Khan is a well-paid bank executive and a family man. But he happens to believe with incandescent certainty that America is the enemy of Islam. According to Khan, the hijackers were warriors - not deranged terrorists - and their actions have guaranteed them a place in paradise. "It's true many innocents died in the U.S., but this is war. We cannot always make a distinction between military and civilian targets," shrugged Khan, 42, who is bearded and wears the traditional Pakistani garb of long shirt and baggy cotton trousers...
...mission is to spread Islam and, as he sees it, America and Israel are the two greatest obstacles to its resurgence. Khan is wealthy by Pakistani standards, but his house is austere; there are no pictures on the wall or homey flourishes. His one vanity, if you could call it that, is his gun collection from the Afghan war, trophies he took off dead Russians. Khan fought in the Al-Badr battalion, made up primarily of Arabs who took the jihad - or holy war - back with them to Algeria, Egypt and Sudan. Their experiences in the Afghan conflict color...
...miles, and are now fighting at the outskirts of the key Taliban-held town of Mazari-aI-Sharif. However, under pressure from Russia - and following Sunday's secret talks in Dushanbe between Russian Chief of the General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin and the new Northern Alliance commander Mohamed Fakhim-Khan, who has replaced the slain Ahmad Shah Masood - the Northern Alliance has changed its previous stand on the U.S. military presence...