Word: yassin
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...spent two hours talking to TIME on Monday, explaining their reasons for joining the team of lawyers representing eight members of the former regime in the trial over the 1982 Dujail executions. (The two were representing Saddam's brother, Barzan al Tikriti, and the former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.) The shooting comes just over two weeks after a fellow defense attorney, Sadoon al Janabi, was kidnapped and assassinated following the first televised broadcast of Saddam's trial...
...also a Hamas landscape. The gate to one former settlement, Kfar Darom, is painted with Hamas graffiti proclaiming, "Welcome to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin City," in honor of the group's founder, killed in an Israeli missile attack in February last year. Eight kids wearing green Hamas baseball caps jog out of the biggest settlement, Neveh Dekalim, dragging a looted telephone pole. At the gate of the southernmost settlement, Rafiah Yam, a youth pulls an uprooted banana tree toward his home in neighboring Rafah...
...hours later, the drama continued across town when Yassin's sister and his fiancee, both clad head to toe in black Islamic gowns, veils and gloves and seeking revenge for Yassin's death, fired on a tourist bus heading past a medieval cemetery toward the Citadel, a major Cairo landmark. No tourist was harmed, but the two women died of apparent gunshot wounds - though police reports and eyewitness accounts failed to clarify whether they were killed in a shootout with authorities or committed suicide rather than endure capture. Police officials believe that Yassin and the women had connections to Hassan...
...According to a police report on last week's attacks, officers were in hot pursuit of a twenty-something terror suspect, Ehab Yousri Yassin, when he jumped off an overpass in central Cairo and detonated his bomb. The homemade device, apparently patched together with explosive powder from fireworks and a few handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen...
...Albany Pair Aug. 5, 2004 An imam and a pizza-shop owner were nabbed for allegedly laundering cash they thought was from a terrorist plot Free on bail. Justice said, based on a note found in Iraq, that Imam Yassin Aref, left, was an al-Qaeda leader but later said it had misread brother in Kurdish as commander in Arabic