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...Willow Springs, North Carolina. "If he's a terrorist, he's the nicest terrorist I ever met in my life," one resident told reporters after Boyd, a 39-year-old drywall contractor, was arrested on July 27 - along with six others, including his twenty-something sons, Dylan and Zakariya - for allegedly plotting "violent jihad" overseas. According to the indictment, Boyd has spent the past three years stockpiling weapons in his rural home, recruiting and training would-be suicide bombers and orchestrating trips to Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Kosovo to scout potential attack sites. Some residents remain unconvinced despite the details...
...Something about secrecy in a democracy strikes a melancholy note,” said Galison. But he stopped short of condemning the keeping of secrets, altogether. “Secrecy seems to be the promise of our survival,” he said. Nasser Zakariya, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a veteran of the filmmakers’ course, attended the screening and praised both the men and their class. “You don’t necessarily have to shout a thesis at someone,” he said. “That?...
...race in the name of the unity emphasized by all Palestinian factions in the wake of Yasser Arafat's passing. "We are against the candidacy of Marwan because it is contrary to the decision of the central committee of Fatah, which unanimously chose [Mahmoud Abbas]," said Zakariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the al-Aksa Brigades. "We will not let anybody, no matter who, create any division or split in the Fatah movement." Zubeidi's views have been echoed by other Fatah militants across the West Bank, and even the hard-line exile Farouk Khadoumi, who remains in Tunis and opposed...
Norma Jean Calderwood Symposium presents this lecture in connection with the exhibition, “The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World.” The program will feature lectures by leading scholars of Islamic art, documentary films, with a live demonstration by calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya. The program includes: lectures and film, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; documentary screenings, 12:30-2 p.m.; calligraphy demonstration, 2-4 p.m. Free, tickets required (617 495 4544). Sackler Lecture Hall...
...investigation. For Atta and his cell of alleged conspirators in Hamburg, the characteristics of modern European life were a godsend. In addition to the hijackers known to have lived there, other men alleged to be part of the Hamburg cell have had arrest warrants issued for them: Said Bahaji, Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh. German officials believe that last spring both Essabar and Binalshibh tried to get to the U.S. to take flying lessons. The three almost certainly arrived in Pakistan from Germany on Sept. 4 and have since gone to ground--possibly in Afghanistan...