Word: moroccan
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...wonder that from the moment Olmert chose Peretz, a Moroccan-born ex-union leader, as Defense Minister earlier this year, questions arose about his qualifications; like Olmert himself, Peretz lacked the military command experience almost all Israeli political leaders have possessed. Defense wasn't even the cabinet position he wanted. Last fall, he defeated Shimon Peres for Labour's top post and pulled his party out of Sharon's coalition, forcing Sharon to call new elections. Peretz tried to leverage Labour's second-place finish into a prominent cabinet post. He wanted Finance, but had to settle for Defense...
...Anne Harvey have seen their relationship with Spain ripen since they first came to visit in 1975. "Back then we did the full tourist thing, including a day trip to Morocco; we caught food poisoning and went home laden with straw donkeys, enormous sombreros and a couple of Moroccan vases," says Ray, 61. "I blush now when I think what we must have looked like." But they liked it, and they kept coming back. In the late 1980s they bought a holiday apartment for around €30,000 in [an error occurred while processing this directive] Torremolinos on the Costa...
...crisis. You get revelations of Pitt's character when his wife is shot: his anger, frustration and resolve, as well as his love for her and desperate terror that he might lose her. And Pitt isn't the only one whose character is revealed in extreme moments. The Moroccan boys playing with the dangerous new toy are expressing the rivalry any two brothers might have. Here it's between the older, ordinary brother and the younger, more daring one. The contest between the boys is halted when Yussef realizes that his rifle shot has unintentionally hit the bus. Suddenly Yussef...
...immediately helped by his government because the shooting is suspected to be a terrorist act. But the film is mainly, I think, about children. They are the most vulnerable of humans, the most likely to be put at risk by the people in charge of them. The Moroccan boys wouldn't have got into trouble if their father hadn't given them a rifle. Pitt and Blanchett's two children, Debbie (Elle Fanning) and Mike (Nathan Gamble), wouldn't be in jeopardy if they hadn't been carted off to Mexico. And the Japanese man's daughter Chieko...
CHARGED. JAMAL ZOUGAM, 32, along with five other conspirators, with the murder of 191 people in the Madrid train bombings of March 2004; in Madrid. The Moroccan-born merchant is alleged to have supplied the mobile phones used to detonate backpack bombs on four commuter trains in the Spanish capital. Zougam, who denies any involvement in the attacks, was also identified by four witnesses as having traveled on some of the trains shortly before the bomb blasts. Twenty-three other suspects have been charged with a range of crimes, from collaboration to handling explosives...