Word: marwan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tikrit it would be better if we said you were Russian," said my interpreter Marwan as we drove north. Saddam's home town is still a hostile place for a lone Brit or American, he felt. I wasn't really listening. My attention was drawn to the surface-to-air missiles, apparently intact, still lying by the aside of the road six weeks after the war - a disquieting symbol of U.S. inactivity and the continuing lack of stability...
...Tikrit we dropped by the office of the region's new governor. We were ushered into a smoke filled antechamber where petitioners wait for hours, sometimes days, for an audience. Several tribal dignitaries in long robes were ahead of us in the line. One asked Marwan where I was from. "Russia," Marwan said. After a short silence a wiry, sunburned man who looked in his fifties asked, in very good Russian, "So what's the weather like in Moscow?" We discussed this and that - the allergy season in Moscow, apartment prices, other very Russian things. I asked him where...
...might have to send fighters if the raids continue. "Our tribes are well armed", the governor remarked. "Very well armed," I countered, remembering the group of Ajil tribesmen just outside Tikrit who had briefly detained me in mid April, when the city fell during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Marwan, who had heard the story, filled in the details. "That's my tribe," the governor said, high-fiving me. "Did they treat you well?" he asked. "They released me," I answered, and he chortled happily. At the time of my problems the Ajil were defending their villages and business interests...
...June 29, 2000, using the alias Isam Mansur, Aziz wired $5000 via Western Union from the United Arab Emirates to hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi in New York City. From July 18 to September 18, 2000, Aziz, using the Mansur alias or calling himself "Mr. Ali" or "Hani" of "Fawaz Trding" (SIC), wired another $109,500 from the UAE Exchange Centre in Dubai to an account at Sun Trust Bank held jointly by Al Shehhi and 9/11 hijack team leader Mohammed Atta, while both men were attending Huffman Aviation school in Venice, Florida. Atta, who conceived the hijacking-attack scheme while...
...published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent for Arafat, 20 percent for imprisoned intifada leader Marwan Barghouti and 15 percent for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Arafat had hoped that Abu Mazen's domestic political weakness would make him reliant on the man who appointed him; instead Abu Mazen has sought to build a coalition of Palestinian groups to back his program. But as of Tuesday...