Word: sana
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KILLED. MARTHA MYERS, 57, WILLIAM KOEHN, 60, and KATHLEEN GARIETY, 53, U.S. doctor and administrators, respectively, who ran a Baptist mission hospital in a tiny town 100 miles south of Yemen's capital, Sana'a; by a lone gunman described by Yemeni officials as an "Islamic extremist"; in Jibla, Yemen. Myers, a revered figure in the town, and her staff treated some 40,000 patients a year...
...KILLED. MARTHA MYERS, 57, WILLIAM KOEHN, 60 and KATHLEEN GARIETY, 53, U.S. doctor and administrators, respectively, who ran a Baptist mission hospital in a tiny town about 160 kilometers south of Yemen's capital, Sana; by a lone gunman described by Yemeni officials as an "Islamic extremist"; in Jibla, Yemen. A revered figure in the town, Myers and her staff treated some 40,000 patients a year...
...realm, Assem grants that Shari'a is more restrictive than Western norms and lifestyles. "Women are to be admired, not used for cigarette advertisements," he says. But he blames later traditions not derived from Shari'a for the extreme subjugation of women in the Islamic world - and his wife, Sana, agrees. Though the U.S. bears the brunt of the criticism in the party magazine, explizit , Assem argues that Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't blame the Americans for everything that goes wrong in the Islamic world. "Our message is that America has an exploitative value system," Assem explains, "but we should...
...Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers...
...valley known as Wadi Dhahr, with its orange cliffs and lush orchards a few miles from the mountaintop capital of Sana'a, is one of Yemen's most stunning landscapes. As usual, last Friday it was alive with the sounds of a Yemeni wedding celebration. A circle of turbaned men danced to a frenzied drumbeat, brandishing their silver swords and daggers. Suddenly a jubilant member of the wedding party pulled out a Kalashnikov and fired into the air, a practice common during Yemeni celebrations. What happened next was anything but customary. To the astonishment of those gathered, within minutes policemen...