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...brief item describing militant Middle Eastern organizations [WORLD, April 8] included information on the group Islamic Jihad in which we identified its head, Ramadan Shallah, incorrectly as "a former Florida State University professor." Shallah taught at the University of South Florida...
...Middle East, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sent out officials to seek backing from Arab countries in case of a possible American attack. Vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Izzat Ibrahim went to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, while Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz were sent to other regional capitals...
...weapons production facilities), allowing the Iraqi National Congress to oust him. France will fret; Arab states will feign disapproval to appease radical factions of their citizenry. But the coalition will survive. (Funny how the coalition survived in spite of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, in spite of bombing during Ramadan, in spite of everything else the neurotic nail-biters said would crumble it.) The Iraqi people will be freer. The world will be safer...
...Fairweather Muslim Harold B. Mackey ’05, who once prayed to Mecca, ate a hot dog and drank a beer on the first day of Ramadan, decided to go vegetarian this semester. “I just want to cleanse my body and mind,” Mackey said. After the first day of class, he smoked an entire eighth of an ounce of marijuana, ate three plates of boneless spareribs from the Kong and passed out in a pool of pork juices. “Allah doesn’t really see everything, right...
...against Israel. He insists that his "Death to Israel" rants, which he has since dropped, were "political rhetoric against Israeli oppression" and not a call to violence against civilians. But terrorists did visit his conferences. Among them: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, later convicted in the WTC bombing, and economist Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who helped direct al-Arian's U.S.F.-based World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) and turned up in Syria in 1995 as head of Islamic Jihad...