Word: walid
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...restaurant patrons drown his arrival in applause. "He is a source of pride," says Elie Khoury, a leading pro-democracy activist who created the "I Love Life" advertising campaign to perk up Lebanese spirits. "We have a Prime Minister who is not performing like a politician." Adds Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a staunch Siniora ally: "He has proved to be a statesman. The coup d'état would have meant that the Lebanese dream of an independent Lebanon, a prosperous Lebanon, would be over...
...KILLED. Walid Hassan, 47, popular Iraqi comedian who managed to elicit laughs about the war with his darkly satirical weekly TV show Caricature, which mocked U.S. troops, Shi'ite militias, corrupt police officers and government chaos; by gunmen, as the Iraqi civilian death toll reached record highs; in Baghdad...
...bios read like a collection of resumes for terrorist job applicants. Several of the the 14 biographies note that the terrorists came from distinguished extremist or terrorist lineage. Walid Bin 'Attash, for instance, "is the scion of a prominent terrorist family," whose father was close to Osama bin Laden. Several of his brothers trained and fought in Afghanistan in the 1990s, the bio notes; two of them were killed, and another brother has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2004. Bin Laden "reportedly selected" Bin 'Attash, who lost a leg in a 1997 battlefield accident in Afghanistan...
...asks the geeky employer. "Holden," says Luc, which to local audiences will mark him as one of a certain breed (to the non?petrol head, it's akin to telling twins apart). Then there are Luc's mates from Yagoona High School - including Aborigine Shane, Islander Donald and Arab Walid - all struggling to make their way in life. In their late 20s, some have children or a partner in jail; others have not yet broken away from the family home...
...normally cautious leaders may have overreached. Some Lebanese political insiders speculate that either the group misjudged the probable Israeli response or Iran or Syria ordered Hizballah to deliberately provoke Israel. "They are a tool in the hands of the Syrian regime and for Iran's regional ambitions," says Walid Jumblatt, veteran leader of Lebanon's Druze community. Iran created Hizballah in 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon that year. A Lebanese official told TIME that Iran recently doubled its cash infusions to Hizballah, to about $300 million a year...