Word: martyrizing
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...Kyiv region, says that local doctors and teachers were instructed to make sure that their patients and students voted for the F.U.U. Kuchma is also said to be targeting one of the most popular leaders, Yuliya Tymoshenko, a wealthy businesswoman and former deputy premier, whose image as a martyr was boosted during her 42-day detention on charges of corruption, smuggling and embezzlement of state funds, all of which she denies. "The March 31 elections to the Rada will give the answer to the main question facing us: whether we will overcome disbelief, fear and be victorious, or remain fearful...
...calling for the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53, the Staff falls into the same tired track that dozens of other media outlets have taken during the last few weeks: scapegoating Law as a martyr for the problems that have arisen for a faulty system. The Staff itself even recognizes that the choices the cardinal made were the result of conflicting pressures and information. He weighed contradictory information and made a judgement about Geoghan, a choice that, although tragically wrong, was in no way designed to harm anyone...
...procession advances to the Pious Martyr's Cemetery, an ancient necropolis sloping into a lake, the assembled ministers appear dutifully mournful. Beside the open grave, Karzai pledges that Rahman's murder won't go unpunished. It's a charged moment: many of the funeral-goers were openly hostile toward Rahman. Some believe that they should be the rulers of Afghanistan and that Karzai stands in their path. When it's time to leave, Karzai strides briskly out among the tombstones. Hustling along behind him, with their bayonets and greatcoats, the guards resemble a 19th century army retreating through the cemetery...
...planning and day-to-day administration, the two men wooed KMM members in Selangor and elsewhere into a new organization they established in the late 1990s, called the Jemaah Islamiah. Abubakar hammered home the themes he still preaches at his school in central Java today: the glory of a martyr's death and the overriding goal of setting up a Muslim government. Officials say he espoused the formation of a new Islamic state encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. To fund such an ambitious vision, he was in contact with al-Qaeda paymasters and responsible for funneling...
...worth to the mujahedin," says the French official. Accompanying that document was a letter Cherifi wanted read to his son, then just 18 months old, in the event of his death. "It urged the boy to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a warrior of Islam and martyr of jihad...