Word: sulieman
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...bomb that yesterday destroyed an entire block about 200 yards away. "Let the Israelis give us our country back and there will be no need for resistance." Others were merely stunned. "I used to live there, but I don't know where my building is any more," said Sulieman, a 20 year-old student, pointing to some ruins. And some were raw with anger. "Tell them that we are a thorn in the eye of Israel, an unbroken thorn!" screamed one young man. "We will plant a tree of revenge against America...
...Rice's first stop in Egypt is a closed-door session with Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence and an key Arab interlocutor with the Palestinians. Soon after the radical group Hamas stunned the world by winning an upset victory in the Jan. 26, Palestinian parliamentary elections, Sulieman added his voice to those of U.S., European and United Nations leaders in calling on Hamas to recognize Israel, abandon violence and commit to talks aimed at establishing a peaceful Palestinian state...
...fight over succession really began in mid-August, just before the scheduled parliamentary election, when former President Sulieman Franjieh, 78, a close friend of Syrian President Hafez Assad, announced his candidacy. Assad, whose 40,000 troops in Lebanon reinforce his claim to be the country's dominant power broker, has been pressing for political reforms that would ensure a more equitable distribution of influence between Christians and Muslims. Muslims constitute an estimated 55% of the population. By tradition, the President has always been a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker of the National Assembly...
...Sulieman Pasha, a prominent Turkish general, died Saturday, aged 43 years...
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