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...bombing of al-Askari, the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, but that attack could only partially account for the hatreds unleashed. A government-imposed curfew briefly interrupted the slaughter; after dark the fighting resumed. Ordinary citizens guided assassins to the homes of their neighbors. Iraqis like Isam al-Rawi, a Baghdad University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded. "I have to be ready for anything," he says. For him, the decapitation of the mosque in Samarra was an omen of doom. "I said to myself, 'This is it. The Shi'ites are going...
...hard-line triumph in Iran is already causing deep anxiety in neighboring Iraq, which is riven by Sunni and Shi'a factionalism. Now some Iraqis worry that whatever remains of their fragile d�tente may be shattered by pro-Shi'a Iranian interventionism. Says Isam al-Rawi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Baghdad: "Ahmadinejad is a man with narrow religious views, and he wants to export these." But Iraq's Shi'a establishment, which has deep ties to Iran, is nonplussed. "Ahmadinejad is a young man, a new player," says Rada Jawad Taqi, a Shi'a member of Iraq...
...underground chambers into a mosque - has compromised its structural integrity. The Palestinians insist the structure is safe, and accuse the Israelis of trying to assert control over the site. Both fear the loss of their political claim to the sacred place. At the center of the current controversy is Isam Awwad, chief Palestinian architect for the Haram al-Sharif and the man in charge of the reconstruction within the Mount. He has long feared Israel would tunnel into the massive, unused chambers beneath the surface of the Mount. "I am an architect, but also I am a Palestinian...
...June 29, 2000, using the alias Isam Mansur, Aziz wired $5000 via Western Union from the United Arab Emirates to hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi in New York City. From July 18 to September 18, 2000, Aziz, using the Mansur alias or calling himself "Mr. Ali" or "Hani" of "Fawaz Trding" (SIC), wired another $109,500 from the UAE Exchange Centre in Dubai to an account at Sun Trust Bank held jointly by Al Shehhi and 9/11 hijack team leader Mohammed Atta, while both men were attending Huffman Aviation school in Venice, Florida. Atta, who conceived the hijacking-attack scheme while...
Like other OPEC pacts, the truce came after days of heated negotiations. And like other OPEC pacts, it may prove ephemeral. Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh broke a deadlock when he tentatively gave in to Iraqi Minister Isam Raheem al-Chalabi's demand for a quota equal to Iran's 2.6 million bbl. a day. To accommodate the 1 million bbl. increase in Iraq's quota, other OPEC members gave up a bit of their own allowances...