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 Iraqi Feuds Heightened After Capture Of Hussein
Hussein loyalists also were suspected of assassinating Muhannad al-Hakim, a member of the leading Shi'ite political clan in Iraq, on Wednesday.
Ali Hussein, seated before a fruit stall with six companions, gleefully contemplated the prospect of Saddam Hussein's execution.
As Ali Hussein fantasized about publicly torturing the deposed dictator and recounted the recent string of attacks against Shi'ites, a Sunni neighbor and known Hussein supporter cut in: "You would be so lucky for Saddam to return to power.
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Ali's young son brings us tall glasses of orange juice and then settles down in a cushy chair in the corner, while his five year-old daughter Mariam wanders in and out.
Ali shows us the photos he took in the morgue of his uncle's body; the evidence of torture is obvious.
Ali also thinks the Americans are causing and purposefully exacerbating sectarianism in Iraq, and claims that his friends have seen American soldiers planting bombs in both Sunni and Shia neighborhoods.
www.insteadofwar.org /site/news_more.php?id=1546_0_2_0_M   (1617 words)

  
 HeraldNet: Dreams on track   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ali Hussein, 15, came with his family from Somalia with hopes of becoming a doctor.
Ali is one of 35 Bantu refugees who have settled in Everett during the past several months.
Erin Sebby said Ali is one of the quickest learners in her English language learner classes.
www.heraldnet.com /stories/05/02/25/100loc_ali001.cfm   (973 words)

  
 The Business Of Jihad, The Nation: Insurgency Will Continue To Build - CBS News
His factory, he says, was attacked by looters during the postinvasion chaos, and it was then that he decided to send his family back to Syria and to join the jihad against U.S. troops and, eventually, their Iraqi allies.
Ali (not his real name) tries to appear calm, though he is clearly concerned, his eyes darting apprehensively around my hotel room.
Ali's group is extremely fluid, and in contact with fighters in other parts of the capital and all over the country.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/23/opinion/main675990.shtml   (1492 words)

  
 Who Are the Shia?
The Shia are called Shia from the term Shi'at Ali (the faction of Ali, the cousin of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed).* They broke from the Sunni essentially from the time of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr.
Hussein's tomb is found in Karbala, Ali's in Najaf.
That quotation, of hadith, has led many Shia to believe that only Ali should have been the first caliph, not Abu Bakr, and that all caliphs, excepting those in the family of Ali, the Alids, were falsely chosen and were not the true leaders of the Muslim umma (community).
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 Iraq's Shiites contemplate a power vacuum - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
Forbidden to non-Muslims, the breathtaking inner sanctum of Ali's tomb is lined with a mosaic of painted tiles and mirrors, gleaming in the light.
Some marched 170 kilometres from Baghdad, waving green banners in token of Ali's son Hussein, whose death in the one-sided battle of Karbala in AD680 was commemorated by a similar mass pilgrimage last week.
Ali Hussein Ali was one of the satisfied guests at the mudhif of Sherif Ghanam Khalil, from the village of Khafaja.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/02/1051382096962.html   (1080 words)

  
 War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ali was in charge of using chemical weapons against the Kurdish forces at the end of the 1980s.
The report details Hussein's reasons for deciding to continue deceiving the international community into thinking that Iraq had WMD, despite the fact that such deception could increase the chances of a military attack on the country.
Senior Iraqi officials told their interrogators that Hussein had no idea what the true state of the country's weapons was, because everyone lied to him and refrained from giving him bad news for fear of being executed.
www.christusrex.org /www1/news/haaretz-3-17-06a.html   (618 words)

  
 Homecomings - The Washington Times: World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Hussein, 41, says he argued too much with his Army bosses, commanders whom he considered ill-prepared to deal with ordinary Iraqis and the threat posed by remaining Saddam loyalists.
Hussein were taken to U.N.-run refugee camps in Saudi Arabia and two years later resettled in the United States: Mr.
Hussein's brothers and his old friends told him that until they saw Saddam killed in the street, they would continue to be frightened.
www.washtimes.com /world/20030727-122634-1865r.htm   (2146 words)

  
 The Life of Imam Hussein (a.s.)
Hussein is the son of the Prophet and father of the Imams".
However, it was not, as some people have imagined, that, as there was no chance of his escaping death, and he knew that even if he surrendered he would be killed, he became helpless and exposed himself to martyrdom.
The correct position is the same as the end of 60 A.H. and in the beginning of 61 A.H. Imam Hussein felt that the Islamic Society had reached a stage of spiritual and moral degradation which could not be reformed except by means of rising and martyrdom.
www.fabonline.com /old/topics/articles/IMAMSz3TheLifeofImamHussein.htm   (719 words)

  
 Sharif Hussein bin Ali (1853-1931)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Emir of Mecca and King of the Arabs, he was the last of the Hashemite Sharifians that ruled over Mecca, Medina and the Hijaz in unbroken succession from 1201 to 1925.
Sharif Hussein’s sons Emir Ali, Emir Abdullah (King Hussein’s grandfather), Emir Faisal and Emir Zeid’s forces led the Arab Army against the Turks.
While the colonial powers of Britain and France denied the Arabs their promised single unified Arab state, it is nevertheless testimony to the effectiveness of the Great Arab Revolt that the Hashemite family secured Arab rule over all of modern Jordan, most of the Arabian peninsula and Syria.
www.kinghussein.gov.jo /sharif_hussein.html   (239 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Saddam Hussein and its six co-defendants were present in the room of the court, including Ali Hassan Al-Majid, called Ali the chemical one for his role in the chemical bombardments of civil zones.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," was involved in the massacre of at least 34 Shiite Muslim men in the southern city of Basra in 1999, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
General Ali Hassan al-Majid, who was reported yesterday to have died aged 62 during a bombing raid on Basra, southern Iraq, was known as "Chemical Ali" and "the Butcher of Kurdistan" for his atrocities in repressing Kurdish rebels in Iraq; he ordered the largest-ever chemical weapons attack on civilians, killing 5,000 and wounding 10,000.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=chemicalali   (4563 words)

  
 Somaliland News - The Chairman of the Justice and Welfare Faysal Ali Waraabe attended a reception in Ottawa
The Chairman of the Justice and Welfare Faysal Ali Waraabe attended a reception in Ottawa
Zamzam Ali Ade-Gude, chairwoman of the Canadian Woman*s branch of the party, detailed the party*s history in Canada, the role of women in Somaliland politics and painted UCID as the party of the future.
Ahmed M.I. Egal - The collapse of the state in the erstwhile Somali Republic in 1991 ushered an era of anarchy, warlord hegemony, sporadic famines and a regression to a pre-modern socio-political structure in that unhappy country.
www.radiosomaliland.com /index.php?itemid=59   (1200 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Unending Feud: Shi'ites vs. Sunnis -- Aug. 17, 1987 -- Page 1
To the shahada, however, the Shi'ites add, "And Ali is the Friend of God." Those additional words in praise of Ali, whom the Shi'ites passionately claim is Muhammad's true successor, epitomize the complex and often bloody feud between Islam's two branches.
However, the Shi'at Ali, the partisans of Ali, argued that the Prophet had designated Ali and his family the hereditary rulers of Islam.
To the Shi'at Ali, who later became known as Shi'ites, Hussein's tragic attempt to establish the Prophet's true succession was the supreme sacrifice for the faith.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,965248,00.html   (745 words)

  
 The Novel - Character Profiles - Qasim Ali Hussein
The best efforts of Qasim Ali and several other boys couldn't reconcile the antagonists, and whenever they were released by their friends, the two fighters flew at one another again.
It came to the attention of Qasim Ali's father and uncles, the four of whom were senior members of the panchayat, or village council, that one of the village men had sworn a blood revenge upon another of the village sons.
As a last resort, Qasim Ali challenged the bigger man to a fight, stating that he would stand in the stead of the beaten man. At first, the big man refused to fight, claiming that he had no quarrel with Qasim Ali.
www.shantaram.com /pages/profiles_1.html   (1566 words)

  
 Shiites — Infoplease.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ali's right passed with his death in 661 to his son Hasan, who chose not to claim it, and after Hasan's death, to Husayn, Ali's younger son.
Ali Husaini Sistani - Sistani, Ali Husaini or Husayni or Ali Hussein al-Sistani, 1930–, Shiite grand ayatollah in...
Ali - Ali (Ali ibn Abu Talib), 598?–661, 4th caliph (656–61).
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 Latest Tribune photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ali Hussein Arwan, 34, weeps over his brother's body as Rashid Hussein Arwan, 27, is buried Thursday in a Baghdad cemetery.
Shiites in Karbala gather at Imam Hussein ibn Ali Mosque, where the Shiite leader, regarded by some as the Shiites' most significant martyr, is buried.
A torn photo of Saddam Hussein and his half-brother inside the home of the half-brother in the small city of Owja, outside of Tikrit.
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 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Kurd witness mocks 'caged' Saddam (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Saddam Hussein and six others are on trial for war crimes against the Kurds during the so-called Anfal campaign.
Saddam Hussein listened to the witnesses, but lost his temper when the Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas were described by one lawyer as freedom fighters.
Saddam Hussein and his fellow accused say the Anfal campaign was a legitimate counter-insurgency operation aimed at clearing northern Iraq of Iranian troops and separatist guerrillas.
news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /2/hi/middle_east/5337722.stm   (544 words)

  
 AEI - Events
Sharif Ali represents the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchist Movement, and he has joined the INC, and I believe he has been working with the INC wholeheartedly.
Saddam Hussein's regime is one of the worst in history, and the Iraqi people have not stopped struggling to free themselves from this, and we have one goal, and we are confident that we will achieve it.
So Saddam Hussein is not just a threat and an evil for his own people; he is a threat to the regional countries and now a threat for the entire international community.
www.aei.org /events/filter.foreign,eventID.214/transcript.asp   (1691 words)

  
 Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz, Sharif and Emir of Mecca (Husayn ibn Ali) (1852-1931) (حسین بن علی), when he proclaimed himself king of Hejaz, which received international recognition.
An exchange of letters with British High Commissioner Henry McMahon convinced him that his assistance on the side of the Triple Entente would be rewarded by an Arab empire encompassing the entire span between Egypt and Persia, with the exception of imperial possessions and interests in Kuwait, Aden, and the Syrian coast.
Prince Zeid, succeeded King Faisal II of Iraq on his assassination in 1958, but never ruled as Iraq became a republic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sherif_Hussein_ibn_Ali   (602 words)

  
 Ali Hussein - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Raghad Hussein, die in Jordanien lebende Tochter von Saddam Hussein, bestätigte in einem Interview die zweite Heirat ihres Vaters, meinte aber, dass dieser Sohn nicht existiere bzw.
Dies mussten auch die anderen Söhne Saddam Husseins, Udai und Kussai Hussein, erfahren, denen eine Flucht aus dem Irak nicht gelang und die schließlich von einer US-amerikanischen Militäreinheit gestellt und bei einem anschließenden Feuergefecht getötet wurden.
Die Behauptung, dass Ali Raghads Sohn und somit nur Saddams Enkel ist, ist jedoch auch aus einem anderen Grund nicht schlüssig: Raghad war verheiratet mit Hussein Kamal, der 1995 nach Jordanien flüchtete, aber trotz seines Verrats zurückkehrte und mitsamt Bruder, der mit Raghads Schwester verheiratet war, von Udais Schergen schließlich ermordet wurde.
de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ali_Hussein   (357 words)

  
 Ali Hussein, InnoCentive's Chief Marketing Officer to Speak At Red Herring Asia 2006 Conference, InnoCentive, a Leading ...
Ali Hussein, InnoCentive's Chief Marketing Officer to Speak At Red Herring Asia 2006 Conference, InnoCentive, a Leading Global Innovator is among the Companies Spotlighted at the Conference - AndhraNews.Net
Hussein's panel is scheduled for Tuesday, August 29, at 10 a.m.
Commenting on the conference, Hussein said, "True to the Red Herring tradition, this conference, with its theme of innovation, promotes hot and innovative technologies and ideas, and as such, is the perfect venue for InnoCentive.
www.andhranews.net /intl/2006/August/25/bwi-Ali-Hussein-InnoCentive.asp   (426 words)

  
 Index Ah-Al
In the 2005 presidential election, he defeated former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a landslide.
Ali (III) Muddat (ibn al-Husayn), (Abul Hasan) (b.
He joined the Ba`th Party underground movement as a young man, but when it came to power, he fell out with the rising strongman Saddam Hussein in the early 1970s and was forced to go into exile.
www.rulers.org /indexa2.html   (17340 words)

  
 Toy vendors offer welcome diversion from the chaos - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
BAGHDAD — Two-year-old Hussein Ahmad shuffles past the rows of colorful balloons, inflatable Spider Man figures, plastic guns and knockoff Barbie dolls, carefully pointing out and contemplating each item before making a decision.
Little Hussein eventually settles on his purchase: a small orange sports car with a green robot driver.
Ali Hussein al-Lami, 43, sets up his roadside toy store on Jadiriya Street in central Baghdad.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-11-30-life-in-iraq_x.htm?csp=34   (495 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Monitoring | Media reports | Profile: Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He is known for his smart suits and cultured manners, acquiring a reputation for elegance which chimes with his personal ambitions.
As an INC leader, Sharif Ali has often said he wants to see his organisation play a crucial role in overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime.
Sharif Ali is keen to be seen as a champion of ordinary Iraqis.
news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2316745.stm   (569 words)

  
 Ali Hussein Innocentive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Ali Hussein Ali Hussein is Chief Marketing Officer, and Vice...
Ali Hussein, InnoCentive's Chief Marketing Officer to Speak At Red Herring Asia 2006 Conference; InnoCentive, a...
Ali Hussein, InnoCentive's Chief Marketing Officer to Speak At Red Herring Asia 2006 Conference; InnoCentive, a Leading Global Innovator is among the Companies Spotlighted at the Conference.
www.homebusinessite.com /in-home-business/Ali-Hussein-Innocentive.html   (445 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Ali Hussein": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
His father, Ali Hussein, a newsagent in Crickleden,...
Ali Hussein, wanted to employ as many men as pos- h 2 - t) R F A I s : \...
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein by Sandra MacKey
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 Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The leader of this project, Jamal Ali Hussein, performed an excellent work in spearheading and executing this program to its conclusion.
The conference was a success with a high level of participation from the local community and international organizations as well as Somalilanders in the Diaspora.
The Forum has decided to rebuild and provide necessary medical and Hospital supplies for Hargeisa Psychiatric Hospital, the Forum committee has approved this program, and it is under consideration and waiting for approval from the general body of the Forum members.
www.somalilandforum.com /slf/projects   (2233 words)

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