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  • It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib. -- Richard Engel
  • If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey. -- Khalid ibn al-Walid
  • The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there. -- Sebastian Vettel
  • The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al -- Al-Ghazali
  • The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. -- Spencer Bachus
  • We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi. -- Joschka Fischer
  • Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. -- Ilana Mercer
  • The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. -- Janis Karpinski
  • American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. -- Tony Snow
  • If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up? -- John Edgar Wideman
  • Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous. -- Janis Karpinski
  • Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state. These people are criminals. They're psychopaths. -- Adel al-Jubeir
  • It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them. -- Andrew Sullivan
  • In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq. -- Janis Karpinski
  • The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled. -- Rand Beers
  • The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general. -- Marty Natalegawa
  • In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. -- John Yoo
  • The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. -- Janis Karpinski
  • We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war. -- John Yoo
  • The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. -- John Yoo
  • What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. -- Carlos Fuentes
  • Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture. -- Marty Meehan
  • There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. -- Thomas Frank
  • I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them. -- Peter T. King
  • I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them. -- Peter T. King
  • What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation. -- Ali Khamenei
  • Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.' -- Abdelkader El Djezairi
  • The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
  • That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria. -- Richard Engel
  • Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that. -- Gavin Hood
  • I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
  • ...liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture. -- Ann Coulter
  • The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces. -- Tim Murphy
  • It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq. -- John Yoo
  • I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him. -- Ehud Olmert
  • What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti. -- Tom Robbins
  • I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends. -- Dennis Miller
  • But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized. -- Yaroslav Trofimov
  • The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
  • I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty. -- Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
  • Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress. -- Geoff Davis
  • If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush. -- Joe Klein
  • 4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to be inspired by Islam to lead better lives. He reckons the best way to get that message across is to use the enormously popular medium of music videos. 4Shbab was set up as an alternative to existing Arab music channels. -- Shereen El Feki
  • Ir. Soekarno, ijazah ini suatu saat dapat robek dan hancur menjadi abu. Dia tidak abadi, ingatlah, bahwa satu-satunya hal abadi adalah karakter dari seseorang. Kenangan terhadap karakter itu akan tetap hidup, sekalipun dia mati. -- Cindy Adams
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