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...Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country, the 12-year-old from Mosul made the judges cry and himself a favorite, singing Ya Iraq!, about the suffering of Iraqi children. The music was his own, the words taken from an Iraqi poem. What's Arabic for "record deal...
...funeral have been refuted by other accounts of the event, which depict the family as distraught. In interviews with TIME at their home in Amman, al-Banna's family members denied that Ra'ed was the Hilla bomber; instead, they say, he died in an insurgent operation in Mosul. They point out that Al-Ghad later retracted its report citing Ra'ed as the culprit. In some respects, the Bannas resemble the many other families around the Arab world whose sons have gone to fight and die in Iraq. But the Bannas also express astonishment that Ra'ed joined...
...Ahmed received the call telling him Ra'ed was a martyr. The caller read Ra'ed's last will and testament. Four days later, there was another call, to Mansour, who says he was invited, "Allah willing," to visit Ra'ed's tomb near the Iraqi city of Mosul. The Banna clan ran an obituary in the newspaper Ad Dustour announcing that Ra'ed had "won martyrdom in the land of Iraq" and "died in the name...
...MOSUL, Iraq (AP)—Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward...
...rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers, when casualties spilled into the passages: the bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters in August 2003, two major offensives against Fallujah last spring and fall, and the devastating suicide bomb in a dining hall in Mosul last December. Month after month of seeing planes arrive loaded with fresh casualties has also sharpened the cynicism of many staff. Some say they are wary of the upbeat assessments given by politicians. Major Kendra Whyatt, Landstuhl's head orthopedic nurse, says she was from the start skeptical about the reassuring...