Word: noor
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...Even if the American attacks against Afghanistan succeeded in finishing the Taliban movement, they would not succeed in arresting bin Laden," one 'Abdul Noor' told Al Hayat on behalf of the terror network. "Not merely because that is difficult, but because bin Laden has 10 lookalikes. Two of them are north Africans and they all are in Afghanistan." The only physical differences between them, the al-Qaeda man reportedly warned, were birthmarks on their backs...
Those attacks were audacious enough. But investigators now believe that al-Zawahiri also made not one but two fund-raising trips to the U.S. in the 1990s. During the second, in 1995, he was introduced to worshipers at the An-Noor mosque in Santa Clara, Calif., as Dr. Abdel Muez, a representative of the Pakistani Red Crescent, the Islamic version of the Red Cross. Al-Zawahiri collected thousands of dollars from donors who were told the money was intended to help Afghan refugees. Dr. Ali Zaki, an Egyptian-born physician who is one of the leaders of the mosque, says...
...Anwar Ibrahim's imprisonment and conviction on charges of corruption and sodomy. After Anwar was severely beaten on the night of his arrest in September 1998, an internal police inquiry failed to identify the culprit. It took a Royal Commission of Inquiry to determine that then-police chief Rahim Noor had administered the beating. (In a subsequent trial, Rahim was found guilty of the charge and he is appealing a two-month prison sentence.) Anwar argued that his convictions were the result of a conspiracy orchestrated by the police at the behest of senior government figures...
From his grief-gouged eyes to the way he presses his hands together to stop them from shaking, it's clear that if Syamsudin Noor makes it through the next few weeks, he is still a dead man inside. Syamsudin has pushed through a crowd of fellow refugees to tell his story, describing in patient detail how a visitation of almost unimaginable brutality destroyed his remote village of Sangai in Indonesia's Kalimantan province. "All my children, my grandchildren were killed," he mourns. "They cut off their heads and then cut them up and took them away to eat. There...