Word: sami
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...another main intersection, teenaged boys held flags of Kurdistan, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party and one American flag superimposed with Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. An elderly man in a blue pinstriped suit and wire-rimmed glasses came and introduced himself. "My name is Sami Feli. On behalf of the Kurdish people and Iraqi people I want to thank the American and coalition forces and George Bush and Tony Blair. We thank them a lot," he said. He got warmed up, and a crowd of teenaged boys surrounded him. "We as Kurdish people have gotten no benefit from Arab leaders...
...arrest and indictment of a Saudi graduate student in Idaho last week may have been an important first step in busting up the burgeoning links between Islamic extremism and the World Wide Web. Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer security at the University of Idaho, was charged with violating conditions of his student visa by registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based...
INDICTED. SAMI AMIN AL-ARIAN, 45, University of South Florida professor, along with seven other men, for running an operation that supported, financed and relayed messages for the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and blamed for the deaths of more than 100 Israelis. He faces up to life in prison...
Italian authorities were alerted to such a scenario last March when they wiretapped a telephone conversation between a pair of suspected al-Qaeda operatives. In the conversation, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais detailed two ways to unleash an attack. One involved an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate victims. At another point, Ben Khemais referred to a makeshift "gas bomb" whose "method," he said, had recently been refined by a Libyan professor...
...chilling conversation recorded last March by Milan police, a pair of alleged al-Qaeda operatives discussed two ways to launch a rudimentary - but deadly - chemical attack. One method, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais boasted to his comrade, required an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate its victims. At another point in the bugged telephone call, Ben Khemais refers to a "gas bomb," seemingly a much more lethal device, though apparently just as makeshift...