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-- The New York Times reported on Wednesday that an insurgent named Haitham al-Badri masterminded the bombing of the Samarra shrine, at least according to Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie. Al-Badri used to be a member of an insurgent group called Ansar al-Sunna. Now he's part of al-Qaida in Iraq, which used to be run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, until he died and Abu Hamza al-Muhajer took over. What's the deal with this "al-" prefix? --
Great article, really. It explains something very down to Earth, and I hate it when the seed article pop-up flame up in red.
#1 - Tue Jul 4, 2006 3:10 PM EDTI first ran into the second part of this series, where Abu, Ibn and Bin were explained, and decided I might just as well seed the first episode too.
Alif, ba, ta ... those were the days ...
Interesting article. Remembered me of my history classes. There's many portuguese places and words which derive from arab, so we had to learn that.
Algarve for example derives from al-gharb - which means to the west, and even my surname Almeida is from a small town up in the north of Portugal, whose name is thought to derive from al-meda - the table.
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