Word: rashid
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...boardroom when Carney, the U.S. adviser, walked in, downed a glass of sweet tea and announced something unthinkable under Saddam's rule: a free election. Carney, a former ambassador to Sudan and Haiti, had discovered that the man the U.S. had put in charge, ex-deputy minister Ahmed Rashid Gailini, was disliked by many of his subordinates for his ties to Saddam's regime. Rather than dismiss Gailini, Carney had persuaded him to step down and put his name up for re-election against another candidate, Mohammed Abdul Mujib, a ministry official in charge of investment. Carney...
...December 2001, when terrorists tried to blow up India's parliament building. And it revived long dormant hopes that India and Pakistan might resume a dialogue about Kashmir, the subcontinent's most destabilizing issue. "Talks will begin very soon," vowed Pakistan's Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed...
...April 19th, Rashid Kokas pulled back a dirty white cloth from a skeleton believed to be his brother, Bashar. "No one says, no one knows," he cried, the universal chant of mourners denied information about loved ones disappeared into Saddam's Gulag. A follower of radical Shiite cleric Mohamed Al Sadr, Bashar was arrested on July 1, 2000 and accused of seditious religious activity. Rashid says that after bribing guards he learned his 30-year-old brother had been hung. Pressing for confirmation, Rashid was told to back off or face the same...
...never knew where he was buried," Rashid moaned, closing the casket and hoisting it with pallbearers who repeated, "No one but God." The body will be reburied in the holy Shiite city of Najaf...
...retired army generals, Pakistani Interior Ministry officials say they found Mohammed and another suspected al-Qaeda operative of Middle Eastern origin. The two were seized along with the scientist's son, an unemployed Pakistani man, Ahmed Afzal Qudoos. "We have finally apprehended Khalid Shaikh Mohammed," boasted Pakistani presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi. "He is the kingpin of al-Qaeda." Sources tell TIME that agents had been led to his hideout through the earlier arrest of an Egyptian in Quetta who had been in contact with Mohammed. Neighbors, wary of the lone Arab who appeared in their working-class area, tipped...