Word: komal
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...muddy battlefields near the town of Halabja on the Iran-Iraq border, the Kurdish militants of Komal guard the northern flank of the war's principal aggressors, Ansar al Islam. Western and local intelligence services have suggested variously that Ansar is backed by al-Qaeda, Tehran and Baghdad. Whatever the identity of its sponsors, Ansar has proved to be a major headache for the local authorities - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which runs the eastern section of the Kurdish region protected by the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone. For the past year, Ansar fighters have periodically attacked and overrun...
...invasion, is an unsettling place at the best of times. Five bodies left sprawled on the road by a checkpoint on March 4 has made it even more so. Among the dead was Abullah Qasre, a leading figure in a local militant Islamic group known as Komal, one of the plethora of sectarian factions that riddle Kurdish politics. Komal, however, has come to be particularly important in recent months in light of the bloody war raging between ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan and Islamist groups linked with al-Qaeda, such as Ansar al-Islam. The local government had entered into...
...They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment...
...middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight when he was disinvited to Oprah Winfrey's dinner after questioning the literary merit of her book-club endorsement. DIED. PRINCESS PREKSHYA RAJYA LAXMI DEVI SHAH, 49, of Nepal's royal family and younger sister of Queen Komal, in a helicopter crash at Rara Lake that killed four; in western Nepal. Princess Prekshya, separated from Prince Dhirendra (who was killed in the June royal family massacre), was cremated on the banks of the sacred Bagmati River with full state honors. DIED. DAVID FRANCIS, 82, the great jazz drummer...