Word: talib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentence of death for Colonel Aref was tempered by a recommendation for clemency. But so deep were the implications of the case that six members of Kassem's Cabinet, including Brigadier Talib, resigned next day, to be replaced by three army officers and five civilians who are moderates but willing to work with the Communists. Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba and Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid stayed on in their posts. They were the very same officials who last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply...
...since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted the July revolt, testified in Aref's behalf...
Britain's 30-day war in the Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began...
...prospect of killing anyone changed to hand-wringing over not bringing the silly little war to an end. At last, British military commanders ordered ground and aerial fire against the rebel stronghold of Firq, believed to be held by the Imam's brother, an ambitious scalawag named Talib bin Ali. British commanders also ordered bombing missions against the presumed stronghold of the Imam himself, a palm-ringed, fortified village called Nizwa, ten miles from Firq...
...White. Fortnight ago, the Imam donned his curved dagger of command, and with his brother Talib took to the warpath again. With 200 modern rifles and up-to-date automatic weapons, mountaineers swiftly took their old capital of Nizwa. The British were quickly convinced that the modern equipment came from King Saud's arsenal, even though that Saudi Arabian potentate, as if indifferent to the whole affair, was off in Ethiopia calling on Haile Selassie. They also feared that the U.S. would naturally side with Saudi Arabia, whose oil concessions are wholly American-but the fact is that...