Word: rashid
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...Pakistan as part of the investigation into the alleged plot to blow up planes flying from Great Britain to the U.S. is connected to the militant Islamic leader Maulana Masood Azhar, one of India's most wanted terrorists. Azhar family members told TIME that the sister-in law of Rashid Rauf, 25, who Pakistani intelligence officers fingered early on as a "key suspect," is married to Azhar's brother...
...dimensions of the plot and similarities to other atrocities in the past two decades strongly suggest that the homegrown jihadists were not acting alone. "There is an al-Qaeda link," says the British official. A possible connection may be Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani descent who left for Pakistan a few years ago, after the murder of his uncle. Rauf, whose brother Tayib was one of those arrested in Birmingham, was detained in Pakistan before the police raids in Britain. Rashid Rauf's arrest was one of the factors that precipitated the decision by the British authorities to roll...
Over the past three years, Emaar Properties, an outfit in the United Arab Emirates, has become one of the world's leading real estate developers. Emaar was founded in 1997 by ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum to lead the Dubai construction boom. The 70/30 business-government partnership, run by chairman Mohammed Ali Alabbar, started taking its expertise on the road in 2002, achieving a market cap worth $20 billion. Currently, in addition to constructing Burj Dubai, touted as the world's tallest skyscraper, Alabbar is busy with undertakings from hotels in Miami to a convention center in Hyderabad...
...Shaikh Rashid recites with great beauty of pronunciation the one hundred fourth sura, concerning Hutama, the Crushing Fire...
...Shaikh Rashid is not much older than Ahmad -perhaps ten years, perhaps twenty. He has few wrinkles in the white skin of his face. He is diffident though precise in his movements. In the years by which he is older, the world has weakened him. When the murmuring of the devils gnawing within him tinges the imams voice, Ahmad feels in his own self a desire to rise up and crush him, as God roasted that poor worm at the center of the spiral. The student's faith exceeds the master's; it frightens Shaikh Rashid to be riding...