Word: mahmoud
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...most of the 1995-1996 NBA season, Denver Nuggets' star guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the national anthem prior to games. He would either stretch on the sidelines or remain in the locker room...
DENVER: The price of principle for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is $31,707 per game. That's how much the Denver Nuggets guard is losing after being suspended by the NBA without pay for violating a league rule that requires players to "stand and line up in a dignified posture" during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, a devout Muslim, said he doesn't believe in standing for any nationalistic ideology. "My beliefs are more important than anything. If I have to give up basketball, I will," Abdul-Rauf said. "This country has a long history of (oppression...
...Palestinian civil war, arresting 112 followers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad today to retaliate forsuicide bombingsthat killed seven Israelis and an American college student Sunday. Militant Islamic leaders threatened resistance against Arafat's government: "If he (Arafat) practices this behavior, we will defend ourselves by all means," warned Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police chief, meanwhile, said the militant opposition to the Israel-PLO peace...
...thought to be the chief hit man for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal has been arrested in southern Lebanon. Security officials there disclosed today that they had seized Mahmoud Khaled Eintour, 48, also known as Abu Ali Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast...
Left off the roster for the $930,000 award were Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, PLO bigwig Mahmoud Abbas and the Norwegian peace brokers who sweated over the deal. Oh, and, of course, Jimmy Carter...