Word: sisterly
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...TIME learned of Hasna from her sister Sadiya and their mother Shafiqa, who now live in hiding in Syria. (The names of the bomber and her family have been changed at their insistence.) Although aspects of their story are impossible to verify, important details tally with the version of events provided by Iraqi officials in Anbar. (The U.S. military will only confirm that a woman suicide bomber attacked the checkpoint at Kilometer 5 on July 23.) Sadiya and Shafiqa also allowed TIME to view, but not to record, two DVDs given to them by an Al-Qaeda fighter...
...because he had not completed his mission. "She had been ready to hear about his death," says Sadiya. "But the idea that he would not be a martyr was too much for her to bear." Hasna locked herself indoors for a week, until the neighbors called Sadiya, certain her sister was dead. They broke down the door and found her, comatose and surrounded by feces. Under Sadiya's care, she regained some of her health, but she continued to be haunted by the shame of Thamer's failure - she referred to it as his "incomplete martyrdom." It wasn't long...
...next time Sadiya saw her sister, Hasna was almost giddy with anticipation. She told funny stories about her experiences in Syria. The jihadis' religious beliefs forbade them from touching her so, she said, they had no idea how to measure her for the belt. She offered to give them her brassiere, but they had to first check with an imam whether Islam allowed a man to touch a woman's underclothes...
...past square one with the banks," he says. "I figured it was worth the gamble." And a gamble it truly is. The only surefire way to get out of a crushing mortgage is to stop mailing in checks and incite the bank to foreclose. Hence Short Refi Me's sister program, Home Free Me, which walks foreclosees through the process...
...Craigslist alleges that eBay used its seat on Craigslist's board to glean inside information that it then applied to its own classified site. But to a casual viewer, Kijiji bears more resemblance to its sister site, eBay.com. "It borrows a lot of things from eBay," says general manager Aqraou, who is based in Denmark. For example, Kijiji uses software developed at eBay to identify nudity in photos in order to cut down on inappropriate postings. It's also available in the local language for more of its foreign language sites than Craigslist and even accepts Spanish listings in parts...