Word: rashid
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...country's doubles team -- the brothers Razif and Jalani Sidek -- had just advanced to the semifinals, assuring Malaysia of its first Olympic medal ever. "What more could you ask for in life?" coach Punch Gunalan asked the air around him. One hour later, though, the country's brightest hope, Rashid Sidek (another brother) was upset in the quarterfinals by a Dane, and the hall was suddenly full of smiling Danes...
Arazi's other owner, United Arab Emirates Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum, whose family possesses more racehorses than anyone else in the world, has other ideas. He would like Arazi to shoot for an unprecedented transatlantic double by running in the Kentucky Derby and then going on in June to the $1 million Epsom Derby, Britain's premier flat race. Contesting Epsom as well as the full Triple Crown is impossible because the events are spaced too closely on the calendar...
...Bush Administration would have preferred to see him tried in the U.S. But when Palestinian Mohammed Rashid, 40, was sentenced by a Greek court to 18 years in prison after being found guilty of premeditated murder in the 1982 bombing of a Pan American jet, Washington felt it had scored a victory...
...Rashid was arrested in Athens in 1988 on a tip from U.S. officials who had assiduously tracked him down and gathered detailed evidence against him. But when Washington failed in its attempts to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. for the midair bombing over Hawaii that killed a 16-year-old Japanese boy and injured 15 other passengers, officials feared that Greece might simply let Rashid go or acquit him. Now Rashid's lawyer is insisting that the Palestinian might be paroled in as little as seven years -- or even acquitted on appeal...
...years the Greeks resisted American efforts to extradite the accused bomber. Rashid's wife, still living in Khartoum, was even permitted to visit him in jail at least twice using a Greek passport and a fake name, although she too was under U.S. indictment. Nor does the story end with the decision last September by Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis to prosecute Rashid as part of his tougher line on terrorism. Two months ago, Rashid discovered the identity of the key witness against him. Since then, U.S. officials have learned, the supposedly retired Abu Ibrahim has dropped in on Awad...