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...Hamdan's journey began in 1996, when he first met Nasser al-Bahri outside a mosque in Sana, the capital city of Yemen. At the time, al-Bahri, a well-educated Saudi and veteran holy warrior, was assembling a small army of jihadis to fight alongside Tajikistan's small Islamic insurgency against its Russian-backed government. Hamdan was by all accounts an easy convert. Orphaned at a young age, he found a father figure in the confident and committed al-Bahri, and a purpose in jihad...
That is a direction the security-obsessed Mubarak regime may find difficult to take. In the Brotherhood's 80-year history, its members have been involved in several attempts on the life of modern Egypt's founding President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s; earlier the Brotherhood was implicated in the assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Nuqrashi...
...dense and impoverished neighborhood, which houses an estimated 3 million people was easily Iraq's most devastated locale during the seven weeks of fighting that wracked the area as U.S.-backed government forces confronted the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. According to Nasser Hashem al-Saadi, a member of parliament aligned with al-Sadr, some 25,000 residents fled the area during that time...
...detained, also captured were Reuters photographer Nasser Nouri, journalist Amina Abdel Rahman, and a convoy of journalists, doctors and lawyers who had been trying to enter Mahalla...
Likewise, Nasser al-Shaikh, chairman of Amlak Finance, the largest publicly owned Islamic finance firm in the United Arab Emirates, spoke of the need to unlock the Gulf's human potential by improving education and training, and luring more skilled workers from overseas. The region's ambitions are vast - from the new economic cities being planned in Saudi Arabia to the huge construction projects rising up in Dubai to the renewable energy research being funded in Abu Dhabi. "But can we attract the talent to execute the projects we have in mind?" asked al-Shaikh...