Word: salah
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Rather than come right out with it, the Israelis hinted at and leaked their charge after Mohammad Jarad and Mohammad Salah, two naturalized Americans, were arrested as Hamas organizers in the occupied territories. Ehud Yaari, an Arab affairs commentator for the state-run Israel Television, said a shaken Hamas leadership had selected the U.S. as a safe haven and moved its "nerve center" there from the occupied territories. The Hamas militant underground, he said, consisted of four regional commands now directed from the U.S. headquarters...
Though Jarad and Salah are being held without charge and have had no access to attorneys, Israeli authorities say their guilt is clear from their "confessions" and the documents they had with them. The Israelis say the two men met with Hamas leaders in Virginia and London before they arrived in Israel in mid-January. Then they contacted Hamas activists in the territories, passing out money and "specific instructions to carry out terrorist operations." The Israelis claim that they found minutes of those meetings and $100,000 in cash in Salah's room at the Y.M.C.A. in East Jerusalem...
...they went to Jerusalem to visit relatives. "We've never been involved with politics," says Jarad's wife Amal. Her husband, she says, works 11 hours a day, six days a week "in front of the public" at the Holy Land Bakery and Grocery on Chicago's North Side. Salah is a used-car salesman...
...survive. The elaborate money-distribution scheme that provided almost $200 million for bribes and food during the occupation served only Kuwaitis. "Why is someone who worked in order to live -- and only because the government wouldn't support him as it was supporting Kuwaitis -- a collaborator?" asks Sana Salah, a Palestinian computer programmer...
...hardest thing to do was to teach Kuwait's children to "like" Saddam, says Salah al-Awadi, manager of credit-card sales for the Gulf Bank. "When Iraqis visited us, we would serve them soft drinks. Once, my son Youssef, who is almost four, said, 'Take this glass and put it on Saddam's head.' We had to teach the kids to say good things about Saddam for fear they would be killed if they didn...