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...Omar Bongo, 73, assumed the presidency of the West African nation of Gabon in 1967 and remained in power until his death on June 8. An authoritarian leader, Bongo--who had been the world's longest-serving President--was criticized for using Gabon's vast oil resources to fund a lavish lifestyle...
...Department has chosen to try him to prove to a nervous nation that the people behind the deadly attacks on Americans overseas can be safely judged and even incarcerated in the U.S. Many Democrats reflexively oppose jailing alleged terrorists on American soil, though Washington has done so before. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman is serving a life sentence in North Carolina in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The stakes are high enough in this case that one hopes the evidence against Ghailani is solid. The U.S. charges that the Tanzanian acquired the makings of a bomb, surveyed...
...instrumental in identifying human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims of Argentina's "dirty war," the bloody crackdown by military rulers in the late 1970s and early '80s. Among them is Hugo Omar Argente, whose brother Jorge was a victim of a 1976 dynamite blast. "They called me on the phone and said the test results had identified him," he told a reporter. "I just cried and cried...
...attack happened when a man steered a small car toward the gate of the Medina Hotel in Beledweyne, near the border with Ethiopia. The car veered into parked cars and exploded. National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden and former Somali ambassador to Ethiopia Abdul Karim Farah Laqanyo were among those who died. "It was an act of terrorism, and it is part of the terrorist attack on our people," Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed told journalists in the capital, Mogadishu. "Al-Qaeda is attacking us." (See pictures of 9/11...
...capital of neighboring Kenya, Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said he had information that more than 100 people were killed. The attack underlined fears that Somalia is developing into a third front in the war against terrorism and militant Islam. It also was the bloodiest episode in two months of heavy fighting in which Sharif's beleaguered government has consistently ceded ground and lives to Sharif's former allies in Somalia's hard-line Islamist movement. (See pictures of Somalia's pirates...