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...land in sight the following afternoon when the motor stutters and dies. The boatman tries a few times to restart it and a few of the men fiddle with the thing, but it's no use. Women scream that they are doomed. A young Somali named Ismail prays to Allah for their survival. By the next night, Abdi Salan is praying too. Late on the fifth day, the Egyptian boatman sees a ship pass in the distance, dives into the sea and swims frantically for it. He soon drowns. And by the ninth day, people inside the crowded boat begin...
...were there because they had heard--and believed--the rumors. The place, they said, smelled not of death but of sweet perfume; the bloodstains on the wall had not turned a rusty black but had stayed deep red. These miracles, said the people in the crowd, were acts of Allah...
Dubowski plans to continue traveling with the film, including to Christian theological seminaries across the South of the country. He is also collaborating with a gay Muslim director on a film tentatively titled In the Name of Allah, which discusses homosexuality in Islam...
...claimed, he received an invitation to meet with Osama bin Laden in Kabul. There, Lillie said, he and three other men, including an old classmate from the polytechnic, Mohammed Farik bin Amin, swore allegiance to the al-Qaeda chief. Bin Laden, Lillie maintained, discussed the group's commitment to Allah and told them their duty was "to suffer." Lillie said he understood that the group was to attack a U.S. target but he did not know if the site was within or outside the U.S. He claimed to know no further details about his intended mission...
...grid, but while everyone else was in and out of the pits to change dry tires for wets and back again, he held steady to take the chequered flag. "If you have a result like this at a crucial moment," he said afterward, "it is beautiful." May Blessed Allah Rock You It's only a game, but you wouldn't know that from all the advance anxiety generated by this week's potentially explosive European football championship qualifier in Istanbul between England and Turkey. Officials in both countries are raising security precautions to new levels. Tensions between Turkish and English...