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...Iraqis? Presumably not. Have the circumstances under which the people live improved since the removal of Saddam Hussein and the military invasion? Not at all. Those are only a few of the reasons for the Iraqis' remarkable hatred of the U.S. troops. As a consequence, such crimes happen. Mohammed Irfan Al-Qudham Deir-ez-Zor, Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...humiliate the whole Arab world. They divested Saddam of human dignity by filming him during the procedures that he was forced to undergo. Arabs felt a deep disappointment about this tactlessness. Whether such stratagems will help U.S. efforts to achieve good relations with the Arab population remains highly questionable. IRFAN QAYEESH Damascus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 2004 | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...human dignity by filming him during the procedures that he was forced to undergo. Arabs turned away in shame from those pictures and felt a deep disappointment about this tactlessness. Whether such dubious tactics will help U.S. efforts to achieve good relations with the Arab population remains highly questionable. Irfan Qayeesh Damascus, Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...vast majority of terrorism cases, judges have sided with the government against the objections of prisoners or their counsel. But there are some notable exceptions, including one case that could undercut some of the government's central legal aims. In March two men, Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, 28, were held in prison, charged with harboring an illegal immigrant, while the FBI tried to determine whether they had links to al-Qaeda. Kamran, a naturalized American citizen, and Nasser, a Pakistani, are cousins who had been living legally in the U.S. for years but returned occasionally to their native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Liberties: The War Comes Back Home | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...debate over Rana Irfan's frequent trips back home to India took years to resolve. She enjoyed them, but her husband Kareem found them unnecessary. Eventually the issue was resolved in Kareem's favor, as are many between them. Their marriage, says Rana, 37, a spirited and sophisticated native of Bombay, is based on "consultation," but in the end, "someone has to take charge. That is my husband." It says as much in the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam: In the U.S.: Freer, But Not Friedan | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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