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Last year, the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) organized a dinner to raise relief funds for Palestinians. The student organizations had considered donating a portion of the proceeds to HLF, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S.—an organization now accused of financing Hamas. A Palestinian militant group, Hamas claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in Israel last weekend that killed 25 people...
...dinner along with the SAS, and in consultation with them, we decided to give [the money] to the Palestinian Red Crescent in the end,” said HIS President Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02, who was last year’s HIS treasurer...
...there had been no military deaths but that five U.S. service members had been seriously injured and had been evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Four British soldiers were also reported wounded over the previous 22 hours, one seriously, though British officials--who never comment on the SAS--will not confirm that they were wounded at Qala-i-Jangi. On the Alliance side, there were said to be as many as 30 dead and 50 injured...
...local residents and hanged from a tree. Alliance forces were so confident of victory that at one frontline position, three shared a powerful joint of hashish. Others tucked into peanut butter and jelly from the American food drops. At 10 a.m. a group of 17 special-operations and SAS men returned to the gatekeeper's house. Harley-Davidson was there, along with Dave, who was wearing a black shalwar kameez (the traditional Afghan pants and long shirt) and carrying an AK-47. After talking to Rozi, Dave told his men, "We're going to close in on these guys pretty...
...hours. Really something." Around 100 Alliance soldiers scaled the southwest tower and lay down along the walls, firing on the Taliban below. Others manned the western tower. Before long, wounded and dead Alliance soldiers were being ferried through the gates. A U.S. soldier ran back to greet an SAS comrade who had felt the full force of Monday's air strike. "How's your hearing today?" he bellowed. Pause. "I said, 'How's your hearing...