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To: SirRealist who wrote (4784)	10/13/2001 3:59:11 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 281500

Well, I may be wrong but Qaida is an Arabic word, an Urdu word <official language of Pakistan, derived from Arabic & Persian> and a Hindustani word <spoken language of India, a mixture of Urdu and chaste Hindi> It may have multiple cannotations in Arabic, and maybe one of the meanings is The Base, although I've never heard it, the most commonly used meaning I heard was "The Rules". The first book of Arabic alphabets is also referred to as Qaida. Thus the kids have to memorize Qaida....again, i think it really means 'the rules' of the language. I tried looking up the word in Arabic English online dictionary, but the way the letter "Q" of Qaida is pronounced in Arabic is different to the way it written and pronounced in Engligh, in arabic it has a rather gutteral sound, and i don't have a multi lingual keyboard. The dictionary came up bank on Qaida. Maybe someone else can try ? ectaco.com Thanks a lot about the complements on the kids. They make my world complete. EDIT : Here it is, the Urdu version. Scroll down a lot and and see under qaaf. The last description seems to fit the terrorists organisation from their point of view. qaa'idah: A n.m. custom/rule/manners/habit/established order cs.wisc.edu