Word: ramadan
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...October, TIME Global Business profiled Mazin Ramadan, 35, CEO of a Seattle-based software start-up, 4thpass, which had recently been sold to Motorola for more than $20 million. Ramadan, left, examined the Baghdad business climate during a weeklong trip in May, and although he relished meeting two uncles and a dozen cousins for the first time, he's doing more studying than investing in the Iraq market. What's hot? Satellite-phone guys roam the streets, charging a buck per minute of chatter. Satellite-dish salesmen line the highways from Jordan, hawking devices banned by Saddam. And some SUVs...
...Qusay, even some water damage on one of the walls. Saddam, she realized, was sitting in her living room. The next afternoon, acting on intelligence that Saddam had been spotted, an American B-1 dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs over a block of buildings just off 14th Ramadan Street, half a mile north of Yunis' home. Yunis doesn't know where Saddam was at the time of the attack, but like many Iraqis, she believes Saddam survived it and is still alive...
...This morning in Baghdad, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters that Iraq had pictures of the battle in Nasiriyeh that he would produce later in the day. By evening (Mideast time), Al Jazeera had begun broadcasting the pictures from Iraq TV. It was not said when the pictures were taken, but it appeared to have been Friday. Before the airing, Al Jazeera warned viewers that the pictures were disturbing...
...That is because the regime understands that there is no choice. Vice President Taha Yassim Ramadan said last week that Iraq was determined not to give the inspectors cause to complain. "We don't want to give the US administration any pretext to attack," he said. Officials are hoping cooperation won't only stave off a conflict that could enrage a war-weary populace, but perhaps even bring an end to the sanctions that has ruined the once prosperous economy...
Iraq's smiling facade cracked a bit after the palace visit. Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, known for his fiery belligerence, denounced the U.N. team as spies and accused the U.S. of sending it to provide "precise information for the coming aggression." But Saddam spoke extemporaneously on television the next day and urged "patience" in letting the inspectors do their work, "to keep our people out of harm's way." Ordinary Iraqis welcomed the inspections. "Let the inspectors do their work. They will find nothing, and then maybe the sanctions will be lifted," said Ali Ahmed, who was enjoying...