Word: tahrir
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...replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist party Hizb ut Tahrir. The men, who denied charges of extremism, quickly emerged as leaders of the revolt. Addressing the nation Saturday, Karimov said the rebels were Islamic extremists. Ten policemen had been killed, while the "criminals" had suffered "many more" casualties, he added. Meanwhile, Saidjakhon Zainabitdinov, a lawyer and leader of a human...
...clinic only three days a week, for three hours at a time. In the new Baghdad, it's a life-or-death journey just to travel the 3 1/2 miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity...
...themselves up as police assembled for morning parade. By the end of the week, the bombings, shootouts and guerrilla attacks had left at least 44 dead. No one claimed responsibility, but the government immediately blamed "Wahhabis" - their catchall term for Islamic militants - and in particular, the clandestine Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT), or Party of Liberation, whose avowed aim is to create a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Senior officials also linked the attacks to al-Qaeda, describing them as retribution for the country's support of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. But to many, the haste in accusing the HUT smacked...
...aren't convinced. "They are scared we will leave them like we did the first time," says the translator, referring to what happened in 1991. Yet they reveal a critical piece of info: the location of the local Baath Party headquarters a few kilometers down the road, near At Tahrir...
Traveling with the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division, Nickelsberg was also moving north last week, transmitting his pictures by satellite phone whenever his convoy came to an occasional halt. When the Marines secured the town of At Tahrir, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, Nickelsberg followed as they went house to house, rounding up high-profile civilians for questioning. "They also entered the local police station," he says, "and removed the police...