Word: yasser
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Terrorist attacks in Israel are increasingly funded by two radical Islamic groups that have long been at odds with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. They began financial support for Fatah gunmen and suicide bombers about six months ago, but according to senior Palestinian security sources, the money has recently begun flowing more freely. This is not just bad news for Israel's security services, already facing a constant deluge of alerts and attacks. It is also a blow to Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which particularly fears losing influence over the gunmen to Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad...
...show a wartime swing to the right. After 20 months in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "national unity" coalition, Labor just wants a dovish alternative to the hard line. They can count on Mitzna for that. As Prime Minister, he promises, he'd restart negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. If there was no peace agreement after a year of talks, he'd unilaterally withdraw from the entire Gaza Strip and evacuate the 7,000 Israeli settlers there. It's a sharp change from Ben-Eliezer, who as Sharon's Defense Minister oversaw massive military operations against the Palestinians...
...addition to Broadbent, two other freshmen should make an immediate impact—Princeton’s Yasser El Halaby and No. 4 Yale’s Julian Illingworth. Each has already staked his claim to his team’s top spot, with El Halaby vaulting Yik and last year’s intercollegiate No. 2, Will Evans, narrowly beating Bullock last weekend at the Ivy scrimmage. Illingworth, who defeated Broadbent in the USSRA 19-and-under National finals last winter, also beat Samper at the Price-Bullington Invitational earlier this month. Still, Bajwa believes he got the better...
...Iraqi government is using its monopoly over information to exploit such sentiments. Echoing official propaganda, Yasser Thamer, a 21-year-old engineering student, told me that he was convinced that the U.S. wanted to attack Iraq to control its oil. "Iraq has the biggest reserves in the world," Yasser said. When I asked Lina Ibrahim's younger sister, Zina, 21, a translator, how she could actually believe that President Bush actually was planning to bomb schools and hospitals and kill Iraqi civilians, she replied, "I read it in Babil" - the tabloid daily newspaper run by Saddam's son Uday...
...Yasser Arafat doesn't deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a few warning shots at Amr's home. Leaders of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization got the message. Scheduled to vote on reform a few days after the attack, they swallowed their criticisms instead...