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...same personality traits. He will pull out a gun and kill his own people." -Rehman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, comparing Hakimullah to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. (New York Times...
...transferred onto the Pan Am plane that went first to London's Heathrow Airport and then took off for New York City. The bomb exploded as the plane flew over Scotland, causing it to crash on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish border. Another man - Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima - was also tried for his involvement in the bombing but was acquitted. (Read: "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy...
...shirt recovered from the crash to a timing device obtained from an unexploded bomb built by Libyan-supported terrorists. The shirt is traced to a small store in Malta called Mary's House. Its owner, a man named Tony Gauci, identifies al-Megrahi in a police lineup. Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, another employee of the Libyan airline who worked with al-Megrahi in Malta, is also indicted...
...Born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932, the son of a Lebanese grocer father and a Lebanese-American mother...
...There is hope that Bongo's death may help set a new pattern for Africa, opening the way for a new era of reform and shared prosperity. Across the continent, the old "Big Men" dinosaurs are dying off. Gone are Idi Amin of Uganda, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre, Hastings Banda of Malawi and Charles Taylor of Liberia. Those that remain are precariously long in the tooth: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has been in power for 39 years, while Dos Santos of Angola and Obiang of Equatorial Guinea have ruled for 29 and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...