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Christian J. Westra '01 currently lives in Dunster House with Jon P. Williams '01, a Crimson editors, who is one of his original four first-year roommates. He says he has kept in contact with Sultan S. Yassin '00 mainly through common extracurricular activities such as Model United Nations...
While the U.S. thinks the war is over, somebody apparently forgot to tell the Iraqis. A day after firing on U.S. planes patrolling the country's northern no-fly zone, Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan said his country is challenging the U.S. presence by conducting flights in the restricted area. Trying to take the "no" out of "no-fly zone" is Iraq's latest way of tweaking the U.S., following Sunday's announcement (and then retraction) that Iraq would expel U.N. oil-for-food inspectors. And the Iraqi government continues to put on an aggressive front, saying it shot...
...attempt on the school bus, however, gave Arafat the cover he felt he needed to move. Arafat's forces added hundreds of detainees to the dozens it had already rounded up. In an unprecedented move, they put Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, under house arrest and cut off his phone line...
SHEIK AHMED YASSIN, spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, was heartily received around most of the Arab world on a recent tour, his first after his release from an Israeli prison last October. But the welcome mat was held back in the place Yassin might have expected to find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks...
...Yassin's future, the charismatic leader said last week that he intended to return to his native Gaza Strip soon. Hamas officials insisted his pardon gave him that right. Yassin has moderated his public views during his incarceration, even calling for a halt in Hamas attacks. But, says an Israeli official, "I would expect that the type of things he'd say out of jail would be substantially different...