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...People have given everything, their homes, their blood, their children, so what we give back is nothing compared to that," said Munir, one of the officials in charged of recording claims in Haret Hreik High School. "We have the will and strength. I don't know where the money comes from, but our leaders tell us we have all we need. In a few weeks it will become clear if it came from Iran or the Arab countries...
...September 19, 2000, Munir Zilanawala ’01 was walking past St. Paul’s Cathedral on his way back to Dunster House when two skinheads attacked him from behind. Zilanawala, who was wearing a Kufi, an Islamic prayer cap, said he immediately knew his assailants were interested in something more malicious than his money. “I took 10 bucks out of my pocket and I said ‘Here—just take it,’” Zilanawala says. “But they didn’t. It wasn?...
...most reductive form, Syriana is about a businessman (Matt Damon) mixed up with oil sheiks, a poor Pakistani (Mazhar Munir) desperate to give meaning to his life and death, a CIA agent (George Clooney) on the trail of terrorists and a very big oil deal...
...Though Pollycarpus, 37, didn't know Munir, he called the activist twice on Sept. 6, the night Munir departed?calls he at first denied making, but which were recorded on Munir's cell phone. Pollycarpus then boarded the flight for its first leg to Singapore, and, say the authorities, swapped his business class seat with Munir's in economy; he took a 6 a.m. plane the next morning back to Jakarta. "Garuda doesn't have any reason to murder Munir," says commission member Rachland Nashidik, an activist and a friend of Munir's. "The question is: who has the power...
...Former Garuda CEO Indra Setiawan?who was removed last week with the rest of Garuda's board in a long-planned management change unrelated to the Munir case?says Pollycarpus was flying to Singapore to check on a Boeing 747 with a landing gear problem, and denies any skulduggery on the part of the airline. As someone who challenged the military, security agencies and big business, Munir had many enemies. Rachland says the commission will next question officials from the National Intelligence Agency. "Let's hope," he says, "the investigation doesn't stop with [Pollycarpus'] arrest...