Word: razaq
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Freed detainees have scores of horror stories to tell. Though most of the accounts have not been corroborated, the scandal makes anything seem possible. Nabil Shakar Abdul Razaq al-Taiee, 54, a retired electrical worker who was arrested last December, told TIME that as recently as March, he witnessed soldiers beating prisoners, including a mentally unstable man who was thrown in a shipping container and pummeled and taunted for days. Another former prisoner, Mohammed Unis Hassan, was arrested by U.S. forces for looting a bank last July. He told TIME of a seven-month odyssey through the prison system that...
...member of Saddam's ruling Baath Party. Dhahir was arrested in the man's place. He spent 17 days in jail, was demoted and got transferred 300 miles south to the city of Basra. (His arrest, he says, was ordered by then Minister of Interior Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razaq, who on Feb. 15 was arrested by Iraqi police...
...Talibs. Afghan officials say that the man who tried to kill Karzai three weeks ago by firing on his car in Kandahar was a Taliban soldier who had been released from the Sheberghan prison camp two months earlier. According to some reports, the man changed his name from Abdul Razaq to Abdul Rahman in order to get hired as a compound guard for the Kandahar governor, who was with Karzai when Rahman struck. Government authorities suspect Rahman, 22, who was shot dead by U.S. special forces guarding Karzai, was part of a larger Taliban conspiracy, and are holding his entire...
...Talibs. Afghan officials say that the man who tried to kill Karzai three weeks ago by firing on his car in Kandahar was a Taliban soldier who had been released from the Sheberghan prison camp two months earlier. According to some reports, the man changed his name from Abdul Razaq to Abdul Rahman in order to get hired as a compound guard for the Kandahar governor, who was with Karzai when Rahman struck. Government authorities suspect Rahman, 22, who was shot dead by U.S. special forces guarding Karzai, was part of a larger Taliban conspiracy, and are holding his entire...
...Intelligence operatives from Kandahar and the capital Kabul spent two weeks dredging over Rehman's past, scouring it for any hints as to who might have ordered or arranged the hit. An Afghan intelligence report, filed last week and examined by TIME identifies Rehman as Abdul Razaq, a Taliban assassin believed responsible for the murders of three opponents to the fundamentalist movement in Quetta in Pakistan in the mid-1990s. A veteran of the Kunduz and Takhar fronts during the Taliban's civil war with the United Front, Rehman was captured last year by the forces of northern warlord General...