Qaeda mentor health deteriorates in hunger strike
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The health of Jordanian Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al Qaeda thinker, has deteriorated after a three-week hunger strike to protest his two year imprisonment without trial, his family said on Sunday.
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AMMAN/BAGHDAD - A year after former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken captive, US officials Sunday denied that the deposed leader was on a hunger strike and said he was in best of health.
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Yemeni and Western officials are concerned that Al Qaeda-linked radicals are among those making the journey.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Five prisoners sentenced to be  executed in Connecticut began a hunger strike on Thursday to  protest their solitary living conditions which they called  "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and 11 top leaders of his regime have gone on hunger strike in their US detention centre, one of their lawyers said yesterday.
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Four-year-old Seif Ibrahim lost his hands and most of his skin when a suicide bomb detonated near his Baghdad home last year. The disfigured boy has since found a way to eat potato chips, picking them up with his wrist stumps and cramming them into his mouth.
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It&#39;s been more than three years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but it&#39;s only on leaving office that Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson tells us how vulnerable the nation&#39;s food supply is.
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United Nations Mideast peace envoy Terje Roed-Larsen Friday urged Israeli prison authorities to ensure the well-being of Palestinian hunger strikers.
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More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.
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At age 51, Billy Shore -- founder and chief executive of the anti-hunger charity Share Our Strength in Washington -- has some food issues himself. Although it is not known how many American adults are picky eaters, a growing number are seeking treatment, says Bradley C. Riemann, clinical...
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JERUSALEM - More than a thousand Palestinian prisoners went on a hunger strike to press for better conditions, but Israel responded by tightening inmate restrictions, and a Cabinet minister said he wouldn't care if they starved to death.    About 1,600 prisoners struck on Sunday...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yassir Arafat&#39;s failing health is the number one topic in the Mideast today, and sources say his is getting worse.
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A new audiotape reportedly recorded by a senior member of the Al-Qaeda network has called for attacks on the US and its allies. The speaker in the tape has been identified as Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden&#39;s deputy.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is struggling to get congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have gained such a foothold that they have been able to launch destabilizing attacks on both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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JERUSALEM -- An estimated 1,500 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons launched a hunger strike yesterday, demanding more visits with family members, an end to strip searches, and better overall conditions.