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...understand just how brutal the war in Iraq has become, spend a day at work with Sheik Jamal al-Sudani. A Baghdad mortician, he travels to the holy city of Najaf every Friday to bury the capital's unclaimed and unknown dead--the scores of bodies that turn up every day, bearing no identifying characteristics save the method by which they were murdered. On a typical trip to the Wadi al-Salaam cemetery last month, Sheik Jamal and a small band of volunteers unload the grim cargo they have brought 100 miles from the Iraqi capital in an old flatbed...
...logical next step in his evolution as a jihadi. Once a street thug in his hometown of Zarqa, he turned himself into a mujahid, or holy warrior, in Afghanistan, and then an emir, or military chieftain, in Iraq. "At some point, every emir wants to become a sheik," or religious leader, says the commander of an Iraqi insurgent group. "Since he was always quite religious, it is natural for him to grow in that direction." He cites Osama bin Laden as an example of another mujahid who rose gradually to the status of sheik...
Stone's fundraising acumen ultimately became the stuff of legend. Calkins later said that Stone "would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there...
...Middle East. Haniya and Abbas are said to like each other. But as Zai Abu Amar, a legislator with ties to Hamas, says: "This is Haniya's first job in politics?and it's as Prime Minister." Within Hamas, say Israeli intelligence sources, Haniya?a close aide to Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas who was killed by an Israeli air strike in 2004?is considered a moderate, and is not known to have participated directly in any attacks on Israel. He does not act alone. Some members of Hamas' leadership are in Damascus, a safe haven from...
...pretty clear from a glance at the miles of construction along Sheik Zayed Road that Dubai has plenty of room for growth as an international shopping capital. The Persian Gulf region already has 50 million sq. ft. of retail space, with an additional 27 million about to open. The retailers include every designer brand name, mass-market shops and international department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Harvey Nichols...