Word: sheikh
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...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will help open a fresh chapter in the long search for Middle East peace this week when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. But as usual, internal Palestinian politics played a key role in getting him there. Abbas agreed to go to Sharm el-Sheikh because he wants to show that he has Egypt's support in his effort to rein in the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Shaken by Hamas' overwhelming victory in last month's municipal elections in the Gaza Strip...
...KILLED. SHAH AMS KIRIA, 73, Bangladeshi opposition figure and former Finance Minister, along with four others; in a grenade blast at a rally for the Awami League party; in Laskarpur, northeast Bangladesh. The party whose leader, Sheikh Hasina, narrowly escaped a similar bombing in the capital Dhaka last August, called a nationwide general strike over the weekend to protest the killings. Subsequent riots in Dhaka and other areas led to more than 100 arrests...
...celebrations and organizing protests against proposals to bring A.U. troops to the country. Court officials also play politics, reminding their compatriots that Yusuf Ahmed was among the first to take up arms against Siad Barre. "It's nonsense to throw out one dictator and replace him with another," says Sheikh Sharif Ahmed Mohamed, the head of the court system's umbrella group...
...cannot have helped Habib that Australia's security services had been watching him for almost a decade. What first caught their eye were his connections with four Egyptians in New York. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mahmud Abouhalima, Sayyid Nosair and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman all had ties to al-Qaeda; all were convicted of involvement in the 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable...
...Translating the nominal consensus on Iraq recorded at Sharm el-Sheikh - support for the January elections, denunciation of terrorism - into the sort of active support that has made a relative success of a similar agreement (involving both the U.S. and Iran) on Afghanistan, however, will take time, and success may be linked with the Bush administration's handling of its two other regional priorities, Iran and Israel-Palestine...