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...country of origin and serial number, and the organization to which it belonged, usually a Pakistani group, the Taliban or "specially for al-Qaeda." Other printed forms listed basic data about individual fighters, including name, nationality, health condition, training background and official role. One Palestinian fighter, listed as Abu Majid, 24, was noted to have extensive combat experience "against the Jews," that is, the Israelis, in south Lebanon. He had joined a unit of al-Qaeda in August 2000. But unlike other fighters, he indicated on his form that he had no desire for more training: "I'm interested...
...photographer who wants to shoot in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and avoid getting your camera smashed and film confiscated or worse, you have to take precautions. Which is why TIME photographer Majid uses a pseudonym to help him maneuver behind Taliban lines. Even so, Majid was beaten up by a Taliban patrol yet managed to smuggle his film across the border by courier. See his striking photo essay at time.com/talibanlines...
...neither case has it been proven that Wahid pocketed the missing funds, but his refusal to kowtow before parliament has cost him. Says Nurcholish Majid, a respected Muslim scholar and long-time Wahid associate: "He doesn't believe he's done anything wrong, and he'll use whatever he has for his defense...
...Lockerbie trial's star witness, Libyan double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, was a good catch. "He wasn't just a one-time asset," says a U.S. intelligence official. "He was providing information to us on other matters." But to the Scottish judges in Camp Zeist, he was hopeless. "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid as a credible and reliable witness," they ruled. For his contradictory and unconvincing performance on the stand, they rejected Giaka's testimony linking the Libyan defendants to the bombing; as a direct result, one of the two accused, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, walked free...
There are people whose spirit is so gracious and capacious that it is a privilege to be in their company. Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise...