Word: alfredo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...populist former resistance fighter Fernando de Araujo to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and current Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta. But even as such democratic rituals play out, the capital Dili has erupted into a battleground for gangs, internal refugees and supporters of a former army commander turned rebel, Alfredo Reinado. Last spring, tensions within the army spread to the civilian populace, sparking riots in which dozens died. On March 3, Reinado's forces engaged in a firefight with Australian-led peacekeepers. Four people were killed, but Reinado escaped. Earlier this week, mobs loyal to him thronged Dili's streets...
...March 2007: Australian peacekeepers clash with the forces of renegade Army commander Alfredo Reinado (pictured here, wearing a bandana), who escaped from prison the previous year and remains at large...
...hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house...
...that that "jihad ? means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." Instead of trying to teach Westerners how to approach Islam, perhaps Islamic authorities should formulate a statement against violence in the name of God. Alfredo Formiga Lisbon Defining Europe Tariq Ramadan listed "mutual re-spect of human rights, basic freedoms, rule of law and democracy" as values common to Christianity and Islam [Nov. 27]. But instead of claiming that Islam is misunderstood, why don't Muslims openly oppose Islamic nations that do not share those...
...Blood and Iron Alfredo Stroessner, the durable military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989, died last month at age 93. Ten years after the general seized control in a palace coup, TIME discussed why Paraguay's past had made it vulnerable to Stroessner's brand of despotism...