Word: sabah
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...banker from Greenwich, Conn., who runs private-sector development for the coalition in Baghdad. His argument may not be proved for years. But the belief that companies can help foster democracy while earning money has been a strong draw for Iraqi emigres. After decades of exile in the U.S., Sabah Khesbak, 50, flew home to Baghdad last October and landed a $500,000 contract for his engineering company in Tustin, Calif., to design four suspension bridges in northern Iraq...
...school at Leeds University in Britain. Even though the drugs to combat these disorders are experimental, they give affected kids a chance to lead a normal life. These unfortunate children have to be brave and strong. To them, I say, change "impossible" to "I'm possible." Johnny Ting Sabah, Malaysia...
...walked into a cluster of worshipers and blew himself up. By the time police dispatched the gunmen, 47 people were dead and 65 wounded. Police defused two more bombs that could have killed hundreds more. Suspicion quickly fell on an offshoot of the banned Sunni radical group, Sipah-e-Sabah, whose preachers denounce Shi'ites as infidels and whose members have been accused of murdering Shi'ite doctors and lawyers. Police also believe that this group helped al-Qaeda carry out two suicide bombings last year in Karachi?on May 8 against a bus carrying French naval technicians...
...blithely unaware, for example, that when Qari Shafiqur Rehman, a Koranic teacher with burning eyes and a coal-black beard, walks by a McDonald's and sees these affluent Karachiites chowing down their Happy Meals, he feels "a deep rage" rising within himself. Rehman also belongs to Sipah-e-Sabah, an outlawed extremist group associated with a string of killings and bombings across the city, so his fury should be taken seriously...
Although they have no love for Saddam, no Arab government, with the exception of Kuwait's ruling Al Sabah family, with its bitter memories of Iraq's 1990 invasion of their country, supports the Bush administration's war against Iraq. That includes regimes with long-standing strategic relations with the U.S., like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Sure, these governments are discreetly helping with the U.S. military effort. But they are doing so only grudgingly, under American pressure...