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  • One of the owners in Sheikh Jarrah was delayed for decades in the Israeli courts as the Arab squatters lost case after case, coming up with a new forged deed after each loss.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel 2010

  • “Every week we protest in Sheikh Jarrah, which is out of the public eye,” Raz continued.

    Israel intercepts Gaza blockade runners: 14 dead. | RedState 2010

  • Fluent English-speakers were brought in, including Massoumeh Ebtekar, who became the voice of the gerogan-girha at daily press conferences with the world media and is now one of Iran's Vice Presidents and the Minister of the Environment, and Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, who zealously interrogated the higher-level embassy staffers and CIA officers, and who is today a conservative member of the Majlis.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • When I tried to reach Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, the chief interrogator and the man that the former CIA station chief Tom Ahern (among others) remembers beating him with a rubber hose, I was informed by al-Islam's brother that he refused to speak to an American writer — for two reasons.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • When I tried to reach Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, the chief interrogator and the man that the former CIA station chief Tom Ahern (among others) remembers beating him with a rubber hose, I was informed by al-Islam's brother that he refused to speak to an American writer — for two reasons.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • Fluent English-speakers were brought in, including Massoumeh Ebtekar, who became the voice of the gerogan-girha at daily press conferences with the world media and is now one of Iran's Vice Presidents and the Minister of the Environment, and Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, who zealously interrogated the higher-level embassy staffers and CIA officers, and who is today a conservative member of the Majlis.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • When I tried to reach Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, the chief interrogator and the man that the former CIA station chief Tom Ahern (among others) remembers beating him with a rubber hose, I was informed by al-Islam's brother that he refused to speak to an American writer — for two reasons.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • Fluent English-speakers were brought in, including Massoumeh Ebtekar, who became the voice of the gerogan-girha at daily press conferences with the world media and is now one of Iran's Vice Presidents and the Minister of the Environment, and Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, who zealously interrogated the higher-level embassy staffers and CIA officers, and who is today a conservative member of the Majlis.

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • The Sheikh is quartered in a musjid close to the sea.

    Three Months in the Soudan 1885

  • Burnley to climb above Tottenham into fourth place in the table, where they are now favourites for the final Champions League place - the least the cash cow they call Sheikh Mansour was prepared to settle for this season.

    The Guardian World News Joe Lovejoy 2010

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