Nir’s Notes

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2003 While the media is busy focusing on the troubling story of the two American soldiers detained at Guantanamo Bay for alleged espionage, both of whom had Syrian connections, another Syria story has passed them by. The names of Ahmad al Halabi, an American of Syrian descent, and [...]

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Jan. 17, 2004 By NIR BOMS & ERICK STAKELBECK Nizar Nayouf has not only seen hell, he has even lived to tell about it. Barely. Just 41 years old, Nayouf suffers from permanent spinal injuries, a failing left kidney, a bleeding gastric ulcer, and deteriorating eyesight. He also has paralysis in his lower extremities and [...]

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