Word: simi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many old Reagan stories were told, so many laughs remembered, that the flight seemed far too short. The plane eased down into Simi Valley in a salute to the thousands waiting beside the highways to see Reagan come home. Flashes from the cameras of the people clustered below could be seen from the plane, a ritual of reaching out to one of their own who had climbed to the world stage and become a great star beyond the imaginations of even these California dreamers...
...week’s activities will raise awareness of and expose students to a greater range of African culture than they may be accustomed to, says Simi Dosekun ’05, HASA’s social chair and the primary organizer of Africa Week...
...first, some officials suspected the outlawed Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which has carried out similar bombings in the past. The authorities say they have yet to find any links between SIMI, the Hanifs and Ansari, but, says Bombay's joint Commissioner of Police Satya Pal Singh, "we suspect they might exist." The police also see the hidden hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant Islamic group committed to ending Indian rule in Kashmir. Police believe Hanif was recruited by Lashkar while working as an electrician at a hotel in Dubai and returned to Chimatpada...
...maverick elements" among the Kashmiri militant groups?acting without Islamabad's support?might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices against Muslims in India, Israel and even...
...possibility that Pakistan?not Gujarat?might be to blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls Pakistani secret-service "modules." And he denies any personal responsibility for sparking an anti-Hindu...