Word: osama
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...When farmers are afraid of water pumps and young girls are nostalgic for Taliban rule, it is clear that there has been a strategic failure. Success in Afghanistan will not be measured by the number of Taliban killed or the capture of Osama bin Laden. Even elections mean little when most Afghans assume that they are fixed by foreign nations from the outset. No, success will come as incrementally as the number of teenagers who graduate from school and find a job. It will come when Afghans look to their police for help, and when they can get justice from...
...Laden, Osama • release by of audiotape containing references to current events is reminder of the utter failure of George W. Bush - after seven-plus years - to effect the capture or murder...
...Ethiopians, with U.S. assistance, invaded to topple an Islamist movement that controlled Mogadishu, and had been sheltering a handful of al-Qaeda operatives. Osama bin Laden's movement killed more than 200 people when they attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and several small groups of U.S. special operations soldiers accompanied the Ethiopians in the hope that the invasion would flush local operatives out into the open. The Ethiopians drove out the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), but quickly became the target of the Islamist Shabaab insurgency that has raged ever since. Having gone in to provide...
Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Israel in a television interview that Israel's attack on Gaza is "sowing seeds of extremism" around the Arab world. His words may prove prophetic: yesterday an audio message purportedly from al-Qaeda's fugitive leader, Osama bin Laden, surfaced calling on Muslims to wage a holy war against Israel. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...
...private homosexual conduct?The answer is that several authorities are guilty of the same sin as the HRW: disregard for historical and cultural context. Ignorance of the wide history of Shari’a law has permitted judges to antagonize gays.A study by International Human Rights Committee member Osama Daneshyar finds that Shar’ia law historically protects most private behavior without qualification. It stems from a commandment in the Qu’ran for humility on the parts of would-be prosecutors, namely “Thou Shall Not Spy”. The invasion of a private Muslim...