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...thousands of panicked families as more than 350,000 refugees left for Jordan. Within a few hours, Nazmeia fell to the ground, groaning, giving birth. The family pulled out of the stream of people, and as the bombs fell, she crept into the thornbushes and delivered a baby boy, Omar al-Nakhla...
...dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book on the war, "hastened the downfall of Arab secularism and opened the doors to the new idea of Islamic radicalism." In Jalazon, Omar al-Nakhla...
...Arab supremacist Janjaweed militia, with support from Sudanese troops, against the farmer population of Darfur, who are mostly black Africans. In four years of fighting in this eastern, semi-desert region of Sudan, 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Last November, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir finally agreed to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur. Then, after five months of stalling, the Sudanese President gave the go-ahead in April for the second phase of the peace plan: a "heavy support package...
...empty corner where a group of brothers used to grill giant splayed carp, called masgouf, over open coals every evening. Down farther is the flat-roofed house where we lived and worked. I haven't been back there since March 24, 2004, when our bureau manager, Omar Kamal, was gunned down on his way to work, a sign that the war had caught...
They are very different scenarios. [Omar] al-Bashir could be compared to Saddam Hussein as far as the treatment of his own people. But I think that is where a lot of the similarities stop...