From Alasker@lbpc.com Tue Sep 25 02:35:33 2001
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:17:13 -0500
From: Adam Lasker 
To: copy@dailycardinal.com
Subject: AP style for terrorist names, et al.

BC-Terror Attack-Names, Advisory,0803
Eds:
   The following list shows AP style for the names of Afghanis, Arabs and
other Middle Easterners who are or may become involved in stories on the
attacks of Sept. 11, as well as AP style for some Arabic words. The usage on
second reference is in parentheses.
   We've received several queries asking for guidelines on the use of ``al''
in Arabic names. There is no standard practice. It varies from country to
country, from family to family, and even from individual to individual
within one family.
   In transliterating their names into the Latin alphabet, some Arabs use
``Al,'' with a capital ``a''; others lowercase the ``a.'' The ``al'' can be
separated from the following name with a space, attached with a hyphen or
attached directly, with no space.
   The AP's practice is to use the common accepted form on well-known names
or the form preferred by an individual. If the ``al'' is used, it should
also be used on second reference. Finally, some Arabs use ``el'' instead of
``al.''
   The list of hijack suspects uses the spelling provided by the FBI.
However, in cases where the ``al'' is separated, we've used the lower case
``al'' with a hyphen as the most common form and easiest for second
reference.

   AFGHANISTAN:
   Mullah Mohammed Omar, Taliban leader (Omar)
   Mullah Mohammed Hasan Akhund, deputy Taliban leader (Akhund)
   Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, Taliban foreign minister (Muttawakil)
   Osama bin Laden (bin Laden, unless it begins sentence, then it's Bin
Laden)
   al-Qaida, bin Laden's group, means ``the base'' in Arabic
   Ayman al-Zawahri, top bin Laden aide, considered Egypt's most wanted
militant, sentenced to death in abstensia for the 1981 assassination of
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (al-Zawahri)
   Jihad, Arabic for ``holy war'' or ``holy struggle''

   The 19 men identified by the FBI as suspected hijackers aboard the four
planes that crashed Tuesday
   Mohamed Atta, American Airlines Flight 11 (Atta)
   Marwan al-Shehhi, United Airlines Flight 175 (al-Shehhi)
   Hani Hanjour, American Airlines Flight 77 (Hanjour)
   Wail Alshehri, Flight 11 (Alshehri)
   Waleed M. Alshehri, Flight 11 (Alshehri)
   Abdulaziz Alomari, Flight 11 (Alomari)
   Ziad Jarrahi, United Airlines Flight 93 (Jarrahi)
   Khalid al-Midhar, Flight 77 (al-Midhar)
   Majed Moqed, Flight 77 (Moqed)
   Nawaq Alhamzi, Flight 77 (Alhamzi)
   Salem Alhamzi, Flight 77 (Alhamzi)
   Satam al-Suqami, Flight 11 (al-Suqami)
   Fayez Ahmed, Flight 175 (Ahmed)
   Ahmed Alghamdi, Flight 175 (Alghamdi)
   Hamza Alghamdi, Flight 175 (Alghamdi)
   Mohald Alshehri, Flight 175 (Alshehri)
   Saeed Alghamdi, Flight 93 (Alghamdi)
   Ahmed Alhaznawi, Flight 93 (Alhaznawi)
   Ahmed Alnami, Flight 93 (Alnami)

   SURROUNDING NATIONS:
   IRAN:
   Mohammad Khatami, president (Khatami)
   Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader (Khamenei)
   PAKISTAN
   Gen. Pervez Musharraf, president (Musharraf)
   TAJIKISTAN:
   Emomali Rakhmonov, president (Rakhmonov)
   UZBEKISTAN:
   Islam Karimov, president (Karimov)
   TURKMENISTAN
   Saparmurad Niyazov, president (Niyazov)

   U.S. allies in region:
   BAHRAIN, home base to U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet
   Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, emir (Sheik Hamad)
   Crown Prince Sheik Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Sheik Salman)
   KUWAIT
   Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah, emir (Sheik Jaber)
   Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, foreign minister and deputy prime minister
(Sheik Sabah)
   SAUDI ARABIA
   King Fahd (Fahd)
   Crown Prince Abdullah (Abdullah)
   Saud al-Faisal, foreign minister (al-Faisal)
   EGYPT
   Hosni Mubarak, president (Mubarak)
   Ahmed Maher, foreign minister (Maher)
   Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian radical Muslim cleric jailed in United
States (Abdel-Rahman)
   JORDAN
   King Abdullah II (Abdullah)
   Abdul-Ilah Khatib, foreign minister (Khatib)

   Arab states possibly involved
   IRAQ:
   Saddam Hussein . (Saddam, in line with Iraqi-Middle Eastern usage)
   QATAR:
   Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, emir (Sheik Hamad)
   Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, foreign minister (Sheik Hamad)
   SYRIA:
   Bashar Assad, president (Assad)
   Farouk al-Sharaa, foreign minister (al-Sharaa)
   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
   Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president (Sheik Zayed)
   Sheik Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, state minister for foreign affairs
(Sheik Hamdan)
   YEMEN:
   Ali Abdullah Saleh, president (Saleh)
   Abubakr al-Kerbi, foreign minister (al-Kerbi)
   OMAN
   Sultan Qaboos, the country's leader (Qaboos)
   Youssef bin Alawi, foreign minister (bin Alawi)
   PALESTINIANS
   Yasser Arafat, head of Palestinian Authority (Arafat)
   Nabil Abu Rdeneh, Arafat spokesman (Abu Rdeneh)
   AP-CS-09-20-01 1530EDT
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