Word: bashir
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...line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban is fleeing, and they get out of an armored...
...tried to escape the ambush, another group of Taliban opened up on it from a different position. Bashir was on the radio asking for backup. Finally some of his scouts arrived and brought out the survivors. One journalist, Johanne Sutton, was shot multiple times in the leg and chest, and she died before they could get her to the clinic in Dashti Qala, which is about 3 miles away from the frontline. Two other journalists - Volker and Pierre Billaud of RTL Radio - had been left behind. According to an Afghan interpreter who was with them, they were injured...
...Sunday afternoon a group of journalists went up to the Northern Alliance frontline and watched as the NA fired more tank shells and mortars at a second and third line of trenches behind the first. Just as the sun was setting the tank commander, General Bashir, judged that the Taliban had all cleared out and said he was going forward in an armored personnel carrier to examine the trench lines. About half a dozen journalists asked if they could go, Bashir said yes, and they jumped on board a Armored Personnel Carrier with him and about 6 soldiers. As there...
...latest political twist in Sudan's chaotic civil war, President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered the arrest of opposition Islamist leader Hassan Al-Turabi and the detention of 30 members of his National Popular Congress. Turabi irked the President by striking a deal with Christian rebel leader John Garang, whose Sudan People's Liberation Army has waged war for greater autonomy in the mostly Christian south from the Muslim north. That agreement brought the Muslim and Christian fundamentalists together for joint "peaceful popular resistance" against Bashir's regime, which has to date failed to end Sudan's internal strife peacefully...
...only physical. The whole concept of a state has been distorted. At the airport, militiamen charge landing fees and sell exit visas. Anyone with $30 can buy an official Somali passport in the central Bakara market, though few countries will recognize it. A few stalls away, moneychanger Bashir Moalim Mohamed opens a huge safe packed with $10,000 worth of Somalia shillings. "I am the central bank," he says, pulling out stacks of new notes recently imported by local businessmen from a printing company in Canada. What about protection? Mohamed plucks a rusty M-16 assault rifle from the open...