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1. The Emirate of Abu Dhabi
- www.uae.org.ae
- Abu Dhabi City - Capital of the United Arab Emirates .
- Abu Dhabi is one of the most modern cities in the world. ... Abu Dhabi's oil wealth has been wisely utilized to encourage a healthy trade and commerce atmosphere apart from oil industries too. The promotion of tourism and various tourism related projects will elevate Abu Dhabi to a Singaporean status in the region. ...
- The Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Centre has hosted some of the most prestigious international events like IDEX (International Defense Exhibitions) etc. ...
- The Abu Dhabi Shopping Festival held every year in early March is filled with fantastic bargains, sale and prizes from all the shopping malls.
- The Abu Dhabi Duty Free is one of the finest duty free shopping centers in the world and its prize draw is popular throughout the world.
- The Abu Dhabi International Airport ranks among the best airports in the world.
- The Abu Dhabi Cultural Centre has become a landmark in the Emirates and holds cultural events and workshops throughout the year. ...
- More about Abu Dhabi Emirate .
- Abu Dhabi is the largest of the seven Emirates and the Federal capital of the UAE. ... When the pearling industry declined, oil discovery in the offshore oilfields of the Southern Gulf revived the economy of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi was also the first emirate to export oil from the Umm Shaif offshore field in 1962. ... This makes Abu Dhabi the largest as well as the most populated of all the emirates. ...
- Today over 120 million trees have been planted in the emirate of Abu Dhabi alone. ...
2. Online NewsHour: Abu Sayyaf Profile
- www.pbs.org
- PROFILE: ABU SAYYAF.
- The Abu Sayyaf, one of 29 terrorist organizations on the State Department's watchlist, is a militant Islamic group based primarily in the southern Philippine islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. ...
- The Abu Sayyaf, whose name means "Bearer of the Sword", was founded in 1991 under the leadership of Abduragak Abubakar Janjalani. ...
- In 1990, Janjalani returned to the Philippines and formed Abu Sayyaf from a radical splinter faction of the Muslim separatist group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). ...
- The Abu Sayyaf is believed to have been funded by al-Qaida in the early 1990s and bin Laden's brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, reportedly met directly with the group in its early years. ...
- According to Abu Sayyaf, the group is fighting for a sovereign Islamic state in the southern Philippines. ...
- At its peak in 2000, the Abu Sayyaf was said to have close to 4,000 members. ...
- After a wave of small-scale bombing incidents and kidnappings between 1991 and 1994, the Abu Sayyaf launched its first full-scale attack in 1995. In April 1995, Abu Sayyaf gunmen destroyed the center of the predominantly Christian town of Ipil in the southern region of Mindanao, taking 30 hostages and killing 53 civilians and soldiers. ...
- In 1996, the Abu Sayyaf grew in number after a peace agreement between the government and the MNLF, in which the MNLF renounced the goal of an Islamic state, led disgruntled separatists to join the more radical Abu Sayyaf.
- After a period of relative inactivity as Janjalani gathered power, the Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 58 people from a Basilan school in March 2000. ... The Libyan money attracted thousands of new Abu Sayyaf supporters and financed the purchase of new arms and equipment, some reportedly more sophisticated than that of the Philippine military arsenal.
- On May 27, 2001, in a second raid, the Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 20 hostages, 17 Filipinos and three Americans, from the Dos Palmas resort on the Philippine island of Palawan. ... Current president Gloria Arroyo has refused to negotiate with the Abu Sayyaf, instead ordering an all-out military campaign against the rebel group. ...
- The historical ties between the Abu Sayyaf's and al-Qaida, as well as the suspicion that the group still receives funding from bin Laden's network, has led to increased scrutiny and to the involvement of U. ... The Abu Sayyaf continues to hold hostage two American missionaries and a Filipino nurse.
3. Abu Sayyaf Group
- www.ict.org.il
- Abu Sayyaf Group .
- Abu Sayyaf is the smaller of the Islamist groups fighting to establish an Iranian-style Islamic state in Mindanao, an island in the southern Philippines. ...
- The Abu Sayyaf group, whose name means, “Bearer of the Sword,” split from the Moro National Liberation Front in 1991. Although based almost exclusively in the southern islands, Abu Sayyaf has ties to a number of Islamic fundamentalist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Ladin’s al-Qaida and Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of organizing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. ...
- Abu Sayyaf has a membership of approximately several hundreds of young Islamic radicals, many of whom were recruited from univerities and high schools.
- The founder and the leader of Abu Sayyaf until 1998 was Abduragak Abubakar Janjalani. ...
- Abu Sayyaf is estimated to have several hundred active fighters, largely based in the islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines' southernmost section. ...
- Abu Sayyaf may also receive funding from the international terrorist network of Osama bin Ladin. ...
- Abu Sayyaf never took part in the peace process between the government and the MNLF, demanding an independent Islamic country. ...
- Abu Sayyaf's activities include bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion from companies and wealthy businessmen in order to attain their aims. ...
- The following year Abu Sayyaf militants hurled a bomb at a wharf in the southern city of Zamboanga where the MV Doulous, an international floating bookstore manned by Christian preachers, was docked. ...
- In 1993, Abu Sayyaf gunmen kidnapped Charles Walton, a language researcher at the US-based Summer Institute of Linguistics. ...
- The following year, Abu Sayyaf militants kidnapped three Spanish nuns and a Spanish priest in separate incidents. ...
- In April 1995 Abu Sayyaf carried out a vicious attack on the Christian town of Ipil in Mindanao. ...
- Abu Sayyaf Group - Articles .
4. Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal - Home
- www.laboractionmumia.org
- The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Condemns.
- The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal Condemns.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal received an honorary citizenship of Paris, France in a ceremony at the City Hall in Paris.
- Attorneys for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal today asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to order Mumia's prior Chief Counsel, Leonard Weinglass, to answer under oath 112 questions concerning charges that he was responsible for the "intentional burying of evidence that proves Appellant Jamal's 'actual innocence' of the crime of which he has been convicted. ...
- Yet Another Witness Exposes the Police Frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
- The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal is a group of union activists dedicated to educating workers about Jamal's case and promoting labor action in solidarity with his struggle. ...
- Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
5. Abu Sayyaf Group, Bibliography
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- ABU SAYYAF GROUP.
- A progress report on the Philippines: the Balikatan exercises, the Abu Sayyaf, and Al-Qaeda. ...
- Terrorism--Prevention--International Cooperation - Abu Sayyaf - Qaida (Organization) - United States--Military Relations--Philippines.
- : in pre-9/11 survey, public divided on accepting foreign assistance to counter Abu Sayyaf, October 17, 2001. ...
- National Security--Philippines - Terrorists--Philippines - Abu Sayyaf - United States--Filipino Foreign Public Opinion - China--Filipino Foreign Public Opinion.
- Loisy, Stéphane--Captivity, 2000--Diaries - Abu Sayyaf - Terrorism--Philippines--Jolo - Hostages--Philippines--Diaries - Hostages--France--Diaries.
- Moarbès, Marie--Captivity, 2000 - Abu Sayyaf - Terrorism--Philippines - Islamic Fundamentalism--Philippines - Hostages--Philippines--Biography - Hostages--France--Biography.
- Into the mountain: hostaged by the Abu Sayyaf. ...
- Torres, Jose--Captivity, 2000 - Abu Sayyaf - Terrorism--Philippines - Islamic Fundamentalism--Philippines - Journalists--Hostages--Philippines--Biography.
- "Abu Sayyaf: Displays of Violence and the Proliferation of Contested Identities Among Philippine Muslims. ...
- "Terrorism and Secession in the Southern Philippines: The Rise of the Abu Sayyaf. ...
6. Karpinski: Rumsfeld OK'd Methods at Abu Ghraib
- www.scvhistory.com
- MORE IRAQ / ABU GHRAIB THE-SIGNAL. ...
- Karpinski: Rumsfeld OK'd Methods at Abu Ghraib .
- prison system in Iraq told The Signal this week that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized the same types of coercive interrogation methods for detainees at Abu Ghraib that he approved for use on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
- Karpinski said there are memos showing Rumsfeld approved similar tactics for Abu Ghraib, where the Geneva conventions were supposed to apply.
- Signal: Are there documents showing Donald Rumsfeld also approved particular interrogation techniques for Abu Ghraib?.
- Signal: About Abu Ghraib?.
- About using the same techniques that were successful in Guantanamo Bay, at Abu Ghraib.
- At some undetermined date in the future, the Pentagon "will try to release the same kind of documents" for Abu Ghraib that it released for Guantanamo Bay. ...
- Karpinski said Sanchez, who was replaced Thursday as the commander in Iraq, cut the orders last fall to implement the special "interrogation rules of engagement" that were used at Abu Ghraib. ...
- Those investigations are an overall assessment by the Army Inspector General of detention operations at Abu Ghraib, and a formal Army inquiry into the military intelligence brigade that ran interrogations at the prison.
7. Stressfaktor
- www.stressfaktor.squat.net
- Die Soliseite für Mumia Abu-Jamal im Stressfaktor.
- Mai 2000 werden Demonstrationen in San Francisco und Philadelphia stattfinden, um Gerechtigkeit für Mumia Abu-Jamal zu fordern. Wir werden für einen Stopp der Hinrichtung kämpfen, und ein neues Verfahren fordern, gerade wenn jetzt das Gericht möglicherweise zum ersten Mal bereit sein könnte, die solange unterdrückten Beweise anzuhören, die Mumia Abu-Jamals Unschuld aufzeigen.
- Um sich an einer gewaltigen Bewegung zur Rettung des Lebens von Mumia Abu-Jamal zu beteiligen.
- Protestmahnwache gegen die Hinrichtung von Mumia Abu-Jamal von 16:00-18:00, Unter den Linden/Ecke Neustädtische Kirchstrasse (nahe der US-Botschaft).
- 'Mumia Abu-Jamal-Café' von 16:00-20:00 im Intercambio, Kreutziger Str. ...
- Freedom & Sunshine for Mumia Abu-Jamal!.
- Solidaritätsbüro Mumia Abu-Jamal, Berlin.
8. welcome to Abu Dhabi Chess Club
- www.abudhabichess.com
- Abu Dhabi Chess.
- 14th Abu Dhabi Festival.
- 13th Abu Dhabi Festival.
- 15th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival.
- The Organizing committee of the 15th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival has the honor to invite you to participate in this prestigious event which includes several FIDE rated tournaments, The program is as follows:.
- The Festival is held in the Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi ,In the heart of the city.
- Cultural Foundation & Abu Dhabi Chess & culture club with full technical and administrational supervision.
- Abu Dhabi Chess & Culture Club P. ... Box : 7513 Abu Dhabi , U. ...
- How to Reach Abu Dhabi ?.
- Abu Dhabi International airport, will be the main port for visitor participants, Beside Dubai and Sharjah International Air ports.
- © 2002 Abu Dhabi Chess Club. United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi ,P. ...
9. Abu Simbel near Aswan, Egypt
- www.touregypt.net
- Abu Simbel.
- See Also Feature Article by Marie Parsons on Abu Simbel.
- Not only are the two temples at Abu Simbel among the most magnificent monuments in the world but their removal and reconstruction was an historic event in itself. ...
- Abu Simbel was first reported by J. ...
10. Boing Boing: Iraqi artists express outrage over Abu Ghraib
- www.boingboing.net
- Iraqi artists express outrage over Abu Ghraib .
- Interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor about a visual response by 25 artists in Baghdad to the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. ... It symbolizes the rape of women detainees in Abu Ghraib, says Alsabti, who heard of allegations of women prisoners being raped at Abu Ghraib five months before the scandal broke. "There was a letter circulating in Fallujah from a woman inside Abu Ghraib," he says. "She was begging the resistance to bomb Abu Ghraib and bring down the walls on their heads so that their suffering would end. ...
- F or many Iraqis, including artists like Alsabti, Abu Ghraib has become synonymous with what they see as the injustices of the occupation. ...
11. U.S. News Press Release: U.S. News obtains all classified annexes to the Taguba report on Abu Ghraib (7/9/04)
- www.usnews.com
- News obtains all classified annexes to the Taguba report on Abu Ghraib .
- Reese, a reservist and salesman in civilian life, installed in October 2003 as warden of the hard site at Abu Ghraib .
- The most comprehensive view yet of what went wrong at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, based on a review of all 106 classified annexes to the report of Major General Antonio Taguba, shows abuses were facilitated--and likely encouraged--by a chaotic and dangerous environment made worse by constant pressure from Washington to squeeze intelligence from detainees.
- Daily life at Abu Ghraib, the documents show, included riots, prisoner escapes, shootings, corrupt Iraqi guards, filthy conditions, sexual misbehavior, bug-infested food, prisoner beatings and humiliations, and almost-daily mortar shellings from Iraqi insurgents. ...
- Taguba focused mostly on the MPs assigned to guard inmates at Abu Ghraib, but the 5,000 pages of classified files in the annexes to his report show that military intelligence officers--dispatched to Abu Ghraib by the top commander in Iraq, Lt. ...
- Henry Nelson, an Air Force psychiatrist who prepared a report for Taguba on Abu Ghraib, described it as a "new psychological battlefield," and detailed the nature of the challenge faced by the Americans working in the overcrowded prison. ... No matter who they are, if they are at Abu Ghraib, they are remanded in deplorable, dangerous living conditions, as are soldiers. ...
- The documents provide new insights, as well as additional compelling details on how Abu Ghraib was spiraling out of control, and how top military commanders battled behind closed doors. ...
- In her secret testimony, Karpinski, who was criticized for leadership failures in the Taguba report, said Sanchez refused to provide her with the necessary resources to run Abu Ghraib and other prisons. ...
- As the top commanders battled it out, soldiers at Abu Ghraib were confused over who was in charge, the documents show. ...
- The E-mails, sent in October and November to Major William Green of the 800th MP Brigade, and copied to the higher chain of command, show a quixotic attempt to simply get the detainees at Abu Graib edible food. ...
- Some officers told Taguba’s staff that they believed the Abu Ghraib mess had its roots in an earlier case at the Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq last summer. ... Said one major who worked at Abu Ghraib: "I’m convinced that what happened at Abu Ghraib would never have happened if" the Camp Bucca case had been prosecuted.
12. Fighting the Abu Sayyaf: A Pretext for U
- www.philippineupdate.com
- 4402 6 pt 6 pt 0 3 Fighting the Abu Sayyaf: A Pretext for U. ...
- unfolded the second phase of its “war against terrorism” in mid-January when it sent some 650 Special Forces to the Philippines to fight the Abu Sayyaf, a tiny kidnap-for- ransom band based in the southern Philippines. ... claims the Abu Sayyaf is a “terrorist” group linked to Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network even though evidence of their link is dubious according to the New York Times.
- Basilan is where the Abu Sayyaf has been holding three of the remaining 21 hostages taken from the Dos Palmas Resort Hotel on Palawan Island in June 2001-- two U. ... In 2000, the Abu Sayyaf had taken some 20 hostages from Sipadan Island of Malaysia and brought them to Jolo. ...
- has said that its troops will shoot at the Abu Sayyaf only if shot at. ...
- The Abu Sayyaf, which once fought for an Islamic state in Mindanao, has been reduced to a rag-tag bandit group of about 100 men. ... told Jim Lehrer in an interview on January 16, 2002 that the Philippines needs sophisticated equipment such as night vision scopes, sniper rifles, and other military hardware to fight the Abu Sayyaf in the mountainous terrains of Basilan and Jolo. But Maritess Vitug and Glenda Gloria, two journalists who investigated this issue, concluded that the reason why the Abu Sayyaf has been able to get away with their misdeeds is because local police and military provide support to the Abu Sayyaf in return for a cut of the loot and ransom money the group gets. ... Then, the soldiers guarding the back of the hospital somehow turned the other way when the Abu Sayyaf escaped with their remaining captives into the jungles; the other hostages had been released after ransom was paid.
- But hostages or not, the case of the Abu Sayyaf has been blown out of proportion for good reasons. ... The govenrment in March stopped any further peace talks with the Moro National Liberation Front claiming that it has harbored Abu Sayyaf members despite denials by the MILF.
- succeeds in crushing the Abu Sayyaf, unless drastic change comes to Mindanao, continuing discontent with Manila will spawn the growth of new rebel groups. ...
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