Word: nazar
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...truce declared by U.S. commanders. A man who claimed to have participated in the insurgency in Fallujah was interviewed by TIME and gave a chilling description of a recent attack on the Marines there. He said when three U.S. tanks, six humvees and about 70 Marines entered the Nazar district of Fallujah, a group of 25 insurgents ambushed them with a Russian-made PK machine gun, an RPG and AK assault rifles; destroyed one tank and disabled another; and fled before the Americans could return fire. On Saturday coalition forces unexpectedly announced that the main highways leading north and south...
...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD NAZAR, 30, political activist arrested in February for promoting an Acehnese independence referendum; to five years in prison for sedition; in Banda Aceh, Indonesia...
...exile. But Chalabi has little personal following inside Iraq, is distrusted by many U.S. officials and is opposed by key Arab states like Saudi Arabia. Washington is increasingly looking for an exiled Sunni from Saddam's professional army to rally the country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected in 1996 and is living in Copenhagen. Khazraji can rally the professional military against Saddam, experts say, and would reassure the Saudis and others that Iraq won't fragment into Shi'ite and Kurdish enclaves. But Khazraji's close ties...
...being given a chance in Aceh is peace. In 1999 and 2000, a group called the Information Center for a Referendum in Aceh (sira) organized giant rallies calling on Jakarta to hold an East Timor-type referendum on independence for the province. sira was led by former student Muhammad Nazar, who was tried for sedition because of the rallies and given a 10-month jail sentence last month. "The violence in Aceh is increasing as part of a military and police effort to undermine the negotiating process," says Nazar, whose current residence is the Banda Aceh central jail. "This...
...view of the diaspora that Armenians living in Turkey are being held hostage. They believe that it is years of silence on the part of Turks themselves that has resulted in the current impasse. "I want to be proud of my country with its past and present," said Nazar Buyum, the head of a large Istanbul advertising firm. The first step, in this way of thinking is to stop labeling legitimate attempts to examine history as some sort of conspiracy...