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  • (Soundbite of drums) Mr. SASSON: This movement and this struggle in Sheik Jarrah evolved out of a deep sense that if we don't do the work, nobody will do it for us.

    Influence Of Israel's Leftist Peace Movement Wanes 2010

  • I'm not sure where I found this, but this interview on the Howard Stern show with the Iron Sheik is freaking hilarious.

    Little Linkie Love 2008

  • Al-Sheik is leading a team of 40 artists who are painting a half-mile stretch of protective walls with murals of colorful desert landscapes and proud moments in Iraqi history.

    Blast walls of Baghdad becoming oases of art 2007

  • Now, police work dismantled the domestic militias behind Tim McVeigh; it stopped the millennium bomber, several attacks on NYC, and the Blind Sheik is behind bars for life.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor 2006

  • Young jihadists still clamoring to see the man they call Sheik Osama.

    CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2007 2007

  • Along with a man by the name of Sheik Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden founded the Maktab al-Khidamat, or Offices of Services, in1984.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Along with a man by the name of Sheik Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden founded the Maktab al-Khidamat, or Offices of Services, in1984.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • They called the Sheik right after they got done with me, and he said he did it as a joke and was going to tell me the next time he saw me and pay the hotels once I knew about it.

    Are We There Yet? Robert Caprio 2003

  • They called the Sheik right after they got done with me, and he said he did it as a joke and was going to tell me the next time he saw me and pay the hotels once I knew about it.

    Are We There Yet? Robert Caprio 2003

  • The contents of this flask came into the keeping of the Ancestor of the Chief of my Tribe -- whom we call a Sheik -- and has been handed down from father to son as an heirloom more priceless than diamonds.

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

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