Word: habashy
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...Gamil el-Batouti, who normally formed part of the "cruise crew" that spells the pilot and co-pilot during the long, dull hours of an ocean crossing, asked to begin his shift early, barely half an hour into the flight. The captain, 57-year-old veteran pilot Ahmed el-Habashi, agreed to let the highly experienced el-Batouti, 59, replace co-pilot Adel Anwar, 36, in the right-hand seat. The door heard to open indicated el-Habashi had gone out, leaving el-Batouti alone at the controls. The reference to God suggested to some listeners a sort of farewell...
Nizar Halaby died in a fusillade of bullets outside his home in Beirut this morning, and Lebanon may be closer to rekindled civil war because of it. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that Halaby, a leader of the influential Habashi, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim sect, "was thought to be the person most likely to become the next musti -- or highest religious leader -- of the Sunnis." The killing, by unknown assassins, is a setback for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose government has been trying to shed the terrorist image Lebanon acquired during the 1975-1990 civil...
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