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News that Harvard receives funds from the bin Laden family makes national news. Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s brother, made two gifts totaling $2 million to the University to fund fellowships for the study of Islamic culture. Harvard officials, responding to attacks, stress that the University will cease using funds if any explicit link to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization are found...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Look Back | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...Hamas likely to stop attacking Israel while it deals with Hizballah. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has been futilely trying to tamp down Hamas since before he assumed his post last month. Although its spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, is at least willing to listen, most Hamas bosses in the Gaza Strip consider Abbas' regime a puppet of Israel and the U.S. Both governments have urged Abbas--who met with Secretary of State Colin Powell last week--to arrest Hamas leaders and agents if negotiations produce no results. So far, his moves have been tentative. A senior Israeli security official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas Goes Global | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...murder of Ayatollah al-Khoei, for which two of Muqtada's guards have been arrested, Muqtada denies involvement. "I expelled Mustafa Yaqubi and Sheik Kais (the men arrested) and we beat them," he says, insisting that he had tried to protect Khoei. "I tried to save him. I sent my men to announce on loudspeakers that all arms should be laid down. I tried to go out to help Khoei, but I was threatened with the same fate as him if I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shiite Contender Eyes Iraq's Big Prize | 5/3/2003 | See Source »

...When a U.S. Marine patrol wandered around a corner into a Baghdad street filled with worshippers spilling out of a Sunni mosque, the flashes of anger and the wrestling for power captured in a second the challenge that American forces face. WE REJECT FOREIGN CONTROL, read the banners. The sheik's sermon was a hymn to nationalism: Do not try to divide Sunni from Shi'ite, he said; we are all united in our desire to create an Islamic state free of both Saddam and America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Business | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...locations of fedayeen forces or other bad guys, and that Special Forces troops are conducting raids. He declined to say if those raids are bearing fruit. In the meantime, the Americans are trying to woo local leaders into working with them to form a provisional authority. One is Sheik Ibrahim Ata Allah al-Juburi, chief of the Juburi tribe which claims 10 million Iraqis "from Zakho to Basra," al-Jubiri said. He receives visitors in a tent erected in front of his house; the tent has ceiling fans, a telephone, a television with satellite receiver and a rectangular sectional couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Uneasy Peace in Mosul | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

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