Word: ayan
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...stripping the leaves from lemon trees in the courtyard. "We'd make soup out of that, with salt," says Salah. Ja'ara and his comrades chopped up lemon rinds and fried them. "It was enough to make you sick for two weeks to taste it," he said. Ahmed al-Ayan, a fleshy 200-pounder when the siege began, came out 40 pounds lighter...
Initially, the priests, surrounded by so many armed Muslims, were afraid to pray conspicuously in groups, according to al-Ayan. But in the final week, they began to conduct services. Muslims prayed individually, except on Fridays, when they gathered in the center of the basilica for midday prayers...