Word: qatari
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...Championships in Athletics in Paris, he not only beat his brother in a thrilling 3,000-m steeplechase; he also scored a gold medal for his home country: Qatar. Qatar? That's right. Last month the lithe 20-year-old middle-distance man swapped his Kenyan passport for a Qatari one and took a new name, Saif Saaeed Shaheen. At the time, the sudden ID change, and a reported salary agreement of $1,000 a month for the rest of Shaheen's life, raised eyebrows in the sporting community. But Shaheen's victory for Qatar last week - which caused Kenya...
...week you?re kenyan, a week later you?re Qatari, and very clearly for financial reasons - this is morally weird - ISTVAN GYULAI, I.A.A.F. general secretary
...Qataris are unrepentant. "We're not pioneers on this; we followed the I.A.A.F. rules," says Dahlan Al-Hamad, president of the Qatar Athletic Federation. Though their athletes have been integrated for longer, host France's team includes many foreign-born and naturalized stars, such as long-jump gold medalist Eunice Barber, who came to France after a French diplomat spotted her in her native Sierra Leone. Moroccan-born marathoner Khalid Khannouchi, granted American citizenship in 2000, became the world-record holder two years later. But the track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host...
Cairo University freshman Ayman Fouad has been glued to al-Jazeera, the Qatari satellite channel, for much of the past three weeks. In the beginning, he cheered on Iraqi fighters as they battled U.S. and British forces. Suddenly, he found himself watching images of American troops riding tanks into Baghdad, helping Iraqis pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein. "I couldn't believe my eyes," Fouad says. But then, he says, he realized what was really happening. "The Americans paid these people," he asserts. "Saddam is tricking the Americans. He will fight them until he kicks them...
...suddenly citing the third convention; the NASDAQ said al-Jazeera's "alleged violation" of Geneva was a reason it was booting the network from its broadcast facility. Technically speaking, news outlets aren't signatories to the conventions, so they aren't bound by them. But al-Jazeera gets some Qatari government funding, and Iraqi TV is state...