Word: umar
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...Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir's chief Muslim cleric and a moderate face of separatist movement, agrees with Mufti - though only partly. "Complete peace and normalcy will return to Kashmir and rest of the South Asian region only when the core issue of Kashmir is resolved as per wishes and aspirations of its people," says Farooq. Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a political analyst and a professor of law at the Kashmir University, agrees: "It is the virus and not the symptoms which require to be taken care...
...himself. Afterward Oakley told reporters that Aidid wanted to be President of Somalia someday and . . . well . . . who knows? The buttering-up had one quick result: Aidid's fighters released helicopter pilot Michael Durant, whose terrified face on television had turned many Americans against the whole involvement, and Nigerian soldier Umar Shantali. Durant, suffering from broken bones in the back, leg, arm and face, was flown to an American hospital in Germany. Oakley also made some progress getting neighboring African states, notably Ethiopia and Eritrea, to involve themselves in peacemaking. One project he has been assigned by Clinton is to help...
More seriously, the unsolved murders of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova as well as the recent shootings of Ruslan and Sulim Yamadayev and Umar Israilov - enemies of Kremlin-supported Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov - and the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 point to a rule of lawlessness rather than the growing influence of a new code of professional behavior...
...radical apocalyptic crazy man from Texas,” but some students had reservations. “I don’t think I identified with many of Jensen’s points...I think some of his arguments were rather far fetched,” said Tarik Umar ’10, who nevertheless added that he found the lecture was “definitely interesting.” Others said Jensen’s message was positive. “I’m a new Christian, trying to live a pure life,” said Josue...
...created the course to encourage artists and designers to dream, and subsequently arrive, at the frontier of science.“You’re not in art or in science but at the border of something we think of as opposites,” says Tarik Umar ’10, one of Edwards’ former students. “But that’s where you can be most innovative and think in a realm most un-thought in.”“Idea Translation” was the birthplace of MuseTrek, an application developed...