Word: mustafa
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...Consumer-protection officials in New York and Massachusetts are urging the product's removal from stores. Peter Tiger, CFO of Imperial Toy Corp., one of several wholesalers marketing the toy, says his company has sold almost 10 million of the yo-yos and insists they are safe. --By Nadia Mustafa...
...windowless cell in Afghanistan until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place day by day without knowing why I am here, how long I am going to stay, and where I am going to go after this. I sit, eat, sleep...
...case in Bosnia highlights the damage to America's image. In October 2001, U.S. troops working with Bosnian police arrested six Algerian-born men - one of whom was Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme...
...Saddam end up in Yunis' house? As war loomed in late March, the garrulous businesswoman--a stout 36-year-old with bright red hair and brooding eyes--rented the place to Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, a former business associate who headed Iraq's Republican Guard. Al-Tikriti did not tell her why he wanted the house, but Yunis suspected it might be used as a storage site or meeting place. When she returned to her home two days after the strike it was empty, but official papers were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition...
...attention to the meeting in Aqaba, there was widespread anger at the perception that Abbas had said many things the Israelis and Americans wanted to hear, but had avoided articulating Palestinian grievances. "There was no Palestinian voice at Aqaba," Palestinian human rights campaigner and longtime Arafat critic Mustafa Barghouti told the BBC. And the summit was condemned during Friday prayers in mosques throughout the West Bank...