Word: sheikh
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...person, I feel miserable and my heart is aching." KIM DAE-JUNG, South Korean President, apologizes for the Hyundai scandal, in which loans to the company were secretly funnelled to North Korea "India desires to dominate the region. It is a desire that will never be fulfilled." SHEIKH RASHID AHMED, Pakistani Information Minister, lashes out following India's third missile test in recent months, as Indo-Pak rhetoric heats up again
...Pakistani court has sentenced to death one man, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 28, and imprisoned three others for their roles in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings...
...most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner of Pearl's abduction and killing...
...Sheikh and Yasmin Dugla, 16, are both Muslim, and say they have felt discriminated against post-Sept...
...really said anything, but the way they looked at us,” Sheikh says, pausing. “Strange...