Word: korans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scene was similar on Monday when I sat in the press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished...
...Just moments after the session began, Saddam stood up and asked to leave. The presiding judge refused, and Saddam replied by pulling a piece of paper out of his Koran and reading a 15-minute speech. After a heated exchange, Judge Mohammad al-Ubeidy had him sent back...
...going to ?look into? the gunpoint conversions of (subsequently released) Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig . The implication seemed to be that we were willfully ignoring a contemporary proof of the old accusation that Islam is a faith spread at the edge of a sword, despite the Koran verse, ?Let there be no compulsion of religion.? The forced-conversion theme was enthusiastically taken up by conservative blogs. Then it ebbed somewhat, for reasons that will become evident...
...wait was worth it, and everything was admissible in court. The thing the FBI learned: al-Qaeda members assumed their jailers would dismember them. When instead the interrogators presented a tough but very human face, the detainees were confused. Small amenities--an FBI agent's knowledge of the Koran, unlimited videos and even an operation for an al-Qaeda member's child--were the kinds of things that eventually turned them. Patience was rewarded. On the other side was the CIA, bursting with urgency and a taste for "whatever's necessary" improvisation--a view encouraged by White House lawyers...
...deciding whether to send kids abroad for university. Bored by rehashing 30-year-old details about Farah Diba, the Shah of Iran's very public wife (her patronage of the arts, her various cosmetic surgeries), my aunts speculated about Mrs. Ahmadinejad. Did she work? Read books besides the Koran? Stay at home mincing vegetables? I told them she taught at a girls' school, but this vague factoid - which I learned from a source close to one of Ahmadinejad's vice presidents but has not been confirmed elsewhere - didn't satisfy them much...