Word: salah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...observers, those events seemed to confirm the notion that it is better to have al-Sadr inside the Iraqi political tent, trying to hold it up, than to leave him outside, threatening to put it to the torch. "This shows that Muqtada is a constructive force in politics," says Salah al-Obeidi, a senior al-Sadr aide. "This is the act of a responsible Iraqi leader...
...Ouzaanik and fellow student Mourad Salah-Brahim don't deny there's a order problem in their projects. But, they say, like in banlieues elsewhere, there's too much stick without much carrot. "We live in a tough and mean world: you need cops, you need security," says Ouzaanik of the frequent ID checks and rousts the often ethnic Arab and black project residents are subjected to by police. "But I'm talking about getting searched three times per week - usually by the same cops, who remember you, but figure they'll remind you who is boss all the same...
...Salah-Brahim sees the abusive checks as designed to keep the underclass shut away. "These check points the cops set up - they're road blocks to dissuade us from going into town," Salah-Brahim remarks, saying there isn't much option since "every business has moved out of here - there's nothing left". The same barriers exist for schools and in the job market, he continues. Despite his good grades and keen interest in advanced business studies, Salah-Brahim recalls being told by advisors that it would be more practical for him to learn a manual trade. "I applied...
...violence seems likely to escalate. Arafat's family will no doubt eventually take revenge. And armed Fatah factions, including the Salah ed-Din Brigades, have compiled a hit list, according to senior Fatah officials, that includes party officials and cabinet ministers suspected of corruption. Fearing for their lives, several senior Fatah officials fled last month to Jordan. In Nablus, a former Interior Minister narrowly escaped being assassinated Sept. 20 by a group of masked men. Meanwhile, the leader of the Fatah militia in the West Bank town of Jenin said two weeks ago that he no longer considers himself bound...
Defusing groups like the Salah ed-Din Brigades won't be easy. Unlike Hamas, they have no political program that Abbas can negotiate over. Abu Samhadana says his "main priority" is to gain sinecures for his men in the Palestinian Authority's security forces. So far, he has been offered jobs for 500. That's not enough, he says, and complains that the remaining 1,500 "will be like the rest of the Palestinian people--unemployed." The town of Rafah is particularly desperate: it has a 66% unemployment rate, compared with 25% among Palestinians in general...