Word: safi
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...vote and the seats in the National Assembly. But Shiite leaders - none more so than Grand Ayatollah Sistani himself - have long questioned some of the provisions of Bremer's transitional constitution, the TAL, and the right of Americans to set the rules for Iraqi democracy. Sistani aide Ahmad al-Safi reiterated this week in an interview with al-Diyar television that many Shiites believe the TAL is "unfair" and "does not have legitimacy, especially since it was not adopted by the UN Security Council...
Quick-as-lightning URI freshman Safi Mojidi stole the ball and dashed down court on the break. With the game clock down to 16 seconds, junior Maureen McCaffery managed to chase her down and force a missed lay-up and Holsey hustled out of nowhere for the rebound...
...dark blue Volvo sped toward the guard post near Najaf's Safi al-Safa shrine just as the muezzin began his evening call to prayers. Inside the car, three gunmen prepared to fire. Their targets were members of the Mahdi Army, a band of militants loyal to the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has holed up in Najaf for the past month to avoid capture by the 2,500 U.S. soldiers surrounding the city. As the Volvo neared the tiny brick-and-reed building, a gunman in the car opened up with his AK-47, hitting...
...there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander of Kapisa province, north of Kabul. "Most of the Taliban artillery has been pulled back from front-line positions either into the Koh-i-Safi hills or for the defense of Kabul. And in those firebases that remain, the artillery has been dispersed. We are now fully prepared to move...
...there have been no Taliban air attacks on our positions, and shelling from their artillery has lessened," says Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the Northern Alliance commander of Kapisa province, north of Kabul. "Most of the Taliban artillery has been pulled back from front-line positions either into the Koh-i-Safi hills or for the defense of Kabul. And in those firebases that remain, the artillery has been dispersed. We are now fully prepared to move...