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Several of the drawings depict the death of Mohammad Al-Dura, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy killed while in his father’s arms in October 2000. His death brought international attention to children caught in the conflict...
...possible U.S. strike and went to the al-Qaeda fighters with an open Koran, pleading with them to leave?and offering them about $10,000 to do so. Then the al-Qaeda men appeared in the village with their wives and children, all wearing funeral shrouds, according to Din Mohammad Darwish, a local radio technician. They cried, "You're sending us to our graves!" The villagers backed down...
...small community of Simuay Crossing on the Philippines' southern island of Mindanao, Mohammad Sabri Selamah fit in just fine. He spoke three local dialects, had lived in Mindanao for almost a decade and was raising four kids with his Philippine Muslim wife. Selamah, a Palestinian carrying Iraqi travel documents, worked as the head teacher at a Koranic recitation center attached to a local orphanage. Datu Tucao Mastura, mayor of the nearby municipality of Sultaan Kudarat, says, "There was never any suggestion he was doing anything except his work at the school...
...Selamah arrived in the Philippines in or around 1992. Philippine intelligence sources believe him to have been a close associate of Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, brother-in-law and Philippines point man of Osama bin Laden. A veteran of the Afghan jihad, Khalifa is believed to have first visited the southern Philippines in 1988, setting up Islamic charities and a rattan business while recruiting Muslim youth to fight in Afghanistan. In Cotabato, his Islamic Relief Organization (IRO) opened offices in town opposite the bishop's residence. Embarrassingly for the MILF?which has angrily denied links with international terror?Khalifa's associate...
AFGHANISTAN First U.S. Death Sergeant 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, became the first U.S. soldier to die in the anti-terror campaign when he was hit by small-arms fire in the Khost area during a mission to coordinate tribal leaders. Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to elude capture, but the head of al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was in the custody of U.S. Marines at the Kandahar airport...