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...Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai shocked Afghan and international observers when he reached out to the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, offering him a guarantee of safety if he agrees to peace talks. Omar, who has a $10 million price on his head for his support of al-Qaeda, has not been seen since 2001, when his Taliban regime was toppled by U.S. forces. Omar is thought to be hiding in the ungoverned tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghan border, though he still appears to be engaged in key leadership decisions regarding the growing militancy in the country. Addressing journalists...
...measure because it did not agree to put the pact to a referendum, a key demand of the Tawafuk Front. The front is the largest Sunni parliamentary bloc with 44 of the legislature's 275 seats. "If Tawafuk says no, that means the Sunnis say no," said party spokesman Omar Almashhadani. "We prefer that the U.N. mandate be extended or the Iraqi government agree to a referendum...
EXPELLED What's in a name? Ask Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, and he would have quite a story to tell. On Nov. 9, after several appeals, Omar--one of Osama bin Laden's 19 children--was denied asylum in Spain despite his claim that repeated death threats have put his life in grave danger...
Decked out in a black dress and long black wig, Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09 unleashed his alter ego—a tall woman named “Cookie.” Together with Ryan S. Nolan ’09 (aka “Candy”), the drag queens became the oh-so-yummy emcees of Adams House Drag Night. You go, girls. In all its hilarity, Drag Night was founded on serious origins. Adams Social Co-Chair Sean P. Bala ’09 says that it stems from opposition...
...their letter, Smith and 25 other former FBI agents point to the fact that physical evidence connects only one person to the crime scene, a man named Omar Ballard, whose DNA was found in the murdered woman's apartment. Ballard is serving prison time for this and another crime. Ballard's confession is the only one consistent with the physical evidence, wrote the former agents...