Word: nasserism
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...vast majority of terrorism cases, judges have sided with the government against the objections of prisoners or their counsel. But there are some notable exceptions, including one case that could undercut some of the government's central legal aims. In March two men, Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, 28, were held in prison, charged with harboring an illegal immigrant, while the FBI tried to determine whether they had links to al-Qaeda. Kamran, a naturalized American citizen, and Nasser, a Pakistani, are cousins who had been living legally in the U.S. for years but returned occasionally to their native...
...dream was short-lived. Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser emerged as the personification of Arab nationalism after surviving the Israeli-British-French attack in the Suez Crisis of 1956. But his empty threats led to the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel seized huge chunks of Syrian, Jordanian as well as Egyptian territory in a lightning strike...
...renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...
...name to go down in Arab history alongside those of the culture's great heroes, like Nebuchadnezzar, who drove the Jews into Babylonian captivity, and Saladin, who retook Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit Islamic ardor, building gigantic mosques and lacing his speeches with the language of jihad...
...RESIGNED. NASSER HUSSAIN, 35, as the one-day international captain of the English cricket team. Hussain announced his departure shortly after England's elimination in the first round of the International Cricket Council's World Cup, which he blamed on the team's loss of a crucial match against Australia. England's place in the next stage will be taken by Zimbabwe, whom the English refused to play in Harare, citing security reasons. The team lost four crucial points as a result of that boycott...