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Erm, you do know that Arabic languages, when used in writing, are written with different characters than those of the Latin alphabet we use, right? And you know that the sounds of this Arabic script cannot be literally translated into Latin letters, resulting in different spellings that reflect attempts to convey the sound as closely as possible (e.g. Al Queda, Al Qu'ida etc etc)? Apparently not.
To put it in simple terms for you: there are no hard and fast rules for spelling Arabic names in our alphabet.
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Very correct. The spelling alone leads to no real conclusions. As MagiK, this guy who posted on this forum once upon a time, likes to point out: when he was doing military intel work, they could NEVER decide on the correct spelling of "Qudaffi" "Khadaffi" "Kadaffi" or whoever the hell the guy was.
