Word: wali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials pieced together the evidence. Of the 14 men arrested by Kuwait on suspicion of plotting a car-bomb attack last April, two, a nurse named Wali al-Ghazali and a coffee-shop owner named Raad al-Assadi, told FBI agents that their target was definitely George Bush. The agents, who had journeyed to Kuwait to interview the suspects, found that they told the same story down to the smallest, unforeseeable detail. Al-Ghazali even said that if the car explosives failed, he was supposed to don a bomb belt and rush toward the former President during his visit...
Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...
...people can say they enjoy their jobs, but Wali says that she opened up the store because she has "an appreciation" for the science fiction...
...keep grounded, or you start to lose it," says Wali...
...There are many places like this in California and New York, but not many in Boston yet," Wali says...