Word: saladin
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...Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth mosque, for example, will be dedicated to Shihab al-Din, the nephew of the legendary Salah el-Din - Saladin - who drove the Christian crusaders from Jerusalem in the 12th century...
...Constantine, no Saladin...
...small villages noted for their competitive clan structure and unruliness. They have at times even earned a reputation for brutality. The Turks provoked some Kurdish tribes to join in the massacre of Armenians near the end of the 19th century. Perhaps the most famous Kurd in history was Saladin, the legendary military leader who battled Richard the Lionheart and proved the wiliest and most effective defender of Islam against the invading Crusaders...
...Kurds have always been tough fighters; Saladin, the nemesis of the Crusaders, was a Kurd. But this time, they have been helped by a convergence of propitious factors. Because Baghdad at first considered the unrest in the Shi'ite areas more threatening, it moved troops in the north southward, giving the guerrillas a more open field. Popular disgust with Saddam's disastrous Kuwaiti adventure fertilized the ground. "Uprising is an art," says Jalal Talabani, Damascus-based leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. "There must be a climate...
...reaction on the streets of the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan is defiant. "Maybe he lost the battle, but that doesn't mean he lost the war," said Faisal al Afghani, whose Amman souvenir shop sells miniature Scud missiles. "We haven't had a leader like Saddam since Saladin." Unable to digest Iraq's defeat, many sought refuge in elaborate rationalizations. "The surrender of Iraqi troops," declared Stawri Khayat, a 30-year-old linguist from Jerusalem, "was staged by the Zionist-controlled media...