Word: khans
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...second and similar incident followed a few months later. Noorzai says he had persuaded a former mujahedin fighter named Haji Birqet Khan, 75, who was close to the Taliban, to come out of hiding in Pakistan and meet with the Americans. But days after Birqet and Noorzai got together in Kandahar, U.S. attack helicopters swooped in and bombarded Birqet's home, killing him and two of his grandchildren. The U.S. claimed it had got wind of a plot by Noorzai and Birqet to attack American forces. Noorzai says that report was erroneous. "He was an innocent man, a tribal leader...
...Each side's conduct upon the announcement of the cease-fire hints at the challenges ahead. Hamas moved its men off the streets of Gaza City, retreating to checkpoints in the Khan Yunis camp where it holds sway. But in Gaza City, militiamen under the command of Fatah security chief Mohammed Dahlan, whose nephew was kidnapped by Hamas fighters last week, fortified their positions at key intersections...
...atmosphere of carnival, an electricity of freedom and breaking loose -- up out of nonentity into entity, a violent flowering of the heart, a burst of flame. A moment before, they had been hurling stones at a Volkswagen van that went veering and skittering off down the main street of Khan Yunis. So we were next in line for the politics of stones. The back window was half-open, and the boy with eyes like cracked ice thrust in his fluttering and clutching hand, like a child reaching into a cave, aggressively curious but half-afraid the hand might be bitten...
...million extra names, though most of these it put down to migrating citizens registering in two places. The BNP concedes there are problems with the roll but denies manipulating it. "Number one, [the Awami League] cannot really establish [the roll was tampered with]," BNP joint secretary-general Nazrul Islam Khan told TIME. "Number...
...Nazrul Islam Khan says "that as a modern person I would support that everything should go to a website." But, he asks, "how many people will have the scope to go to that website - Shujan is a very nice organization but they are thinking of an ideal situation." That, says Ahmad, is exactly the point...