Word: wahid
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...Tuesday French investigators resumed interrogation of six family members of the Djerba suicide bomber Nizar Naouar, whose last phone call before his death was to suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone was sent to Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth the network behind Nizar, that may not stop another one from launching an attack. Investigators can't be sure whether...
...core of the man's mystery. Is he just "the Britney Spears of Islam," as he is characterized by Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, head of Indonesia's Liberal Islam Network? Is he merely a feel-good merchant who uses religion for his commercial ends? Or is Solahuddin Wahid, vice chairman of the 40 million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, right when he says that Aa Gym's "sincerity is his strength. He's creating a society based on his words and deeds...
...chosen by parliament to replace Megawati as Vice President after she was elected by the same body to succeed the impeached Abdurrahman Wahid. Haz is the head of Indonesia's main Muslim political group, the United Development Party, the third largest party in parliament; in 1999 he opposed Megawati's first bid for the presidency on the ground that the world's largest Muslim country should not be run by a woman. Megawati's secular Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many to doubt...
...Unfortunately, Megawati, Indonesia's third president since 1999, hasn't been up to the task. Even her supporters label her slow-moving and indecisive. Megawati was sworn in last year after a crisis during which her beleaguered predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to call emergency rule to save himself from impeachment. Since then, she's been paralyzed by countervailing political forces. After years of repression, social groups of all types, from religious organizations to labor, are asserting themselves in Indonesia's new democracy, looking to right old wrongs and creating a cacophony of competing interests...
...special-ops commandos to ride horseback with Northern Alliance forces and call in air strikes using handheld lasers and target-spotting binoculars. The combination of high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes in a jail in Sheberghan, northern Afghanistan. "We couldn't gather in large groups because that made a target. We were waiting for our comrades to tell us what to do, but there was nothing...