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3 unusual facts about Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri


Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri

Yaser Esam Hamdi, former U.S. citizen who was held as an enemy combatant in the Continental U.S. See Supreme Court ruling Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)

Michael M. Mihm

Judge Mihm is the judge currently presiding over the Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri case.

Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston

The brig recently housed several enemy combatants, including Yasser Hamdi, José Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.


Al-Marri v. Spagone

Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote the plurality opinion, which held that, as a legal resident of the United States who was originally detained within the United States, al-Marri may not be held in military custody as an enemy combatant.

Anglo Marri wars

A proclamation was issued on the Sind Frontier offering a reward of ten rupees for the capture of any Marri.

The Marris were considered absolutely incorrigible, and were proclaimed out lawed and blockaded on all sides.

On the other side, Marri tribesmen had faced no such difficulties in their chain of supplies in the area.

After this war, in 1843 CE, Marri once again gone in uprising against the British forces and they gave much trouble.

At last Marri tribe agreed to support the British Forces and paid money in this regard but they refused to send their youth in the war for the sake of British crown.

Being a Baluch tribe, Marri feel worries about the fate of their neighboring state and their Baluch ruler.

In 1880 CE, during the Second Afghan War Marri tribesmen made frequent raids on the British line of communications, ending with the plunder of a treasure convoy.

During the World War I, the British Forces were facing a shortage of recruits for the war but Marri reluctant to join their ranks.

The relations of Marri with the British commenced in 1840 CE with attacks made on the communications of Sir John Keane's army, after it had passed through the Bolan Pass.

The Anglo Marri wars were three major military conflicts between the Marri Baluch tribesmen in the independent eastern Baluch tribal belt of what is now called North-Eastern region of Baluchistan Pakistan and the British Empire in 19th and 20th century.

In these wars, the battle grounds mostly were in the hilly tribal areas of Kohistan-e-Marri and adjacent localities.

Ataullah Mengal

In 1958, Ataullah Mengal along with chief of Marri tribe Khair Bakhsh Marri joined the National Awami Party (Wali) of Khan Wali Khan and developed a close friendship with Wali Khan over the next decade.

Beelu National Park

The park contains an abundance of native flora including Jarrah, Marri, Zamia, Bull Banksia, Sheoak and Grass tree.

Hyderabad tribunal

Those arrested from the National Awami Party leadership included Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Khan Amirzadah Khan, Syed Muhammad Kaswar Gardezi, Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, Mir Gul Khan Nasir, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Habib Jalib, Barrister Azizullah Shaikh, Aslam Baluch (Shaysani), Aslam Kurd, Saleem Kurd, Sher Mohammad Marri (General Sherof), Najam Sethi, Saleem Pervez, Majid Gichki, Mir Abdul Wahid Kurd (read article) and Karnel Sultan Mengal.

Jarallah

Jaralla al-Marri, Qatari citizen, former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Khairpur

Major Tribes Are : , Talpur, Shah , Channa (Sindhi tribe) ,kanhar, Gajani, Wassan, Phulpoto Shar, , Soomro, Jillani, Abro, Shaikh, Jatoi, Lashari, Mahar, Khamisani, Khuhro, Maitlo Solangi, Marri, Qureshi .

Marri-Bugti Country

In April 1840, Captain Lewis Brown was sent to occupy Kahan but surrendered to Marri Chief Doda Khan five months later.

Millbridge, Western Australia

The suburb contains a mix of jarrah, marri, sheoak and banksia woodland as well as wetland areas with flooded gums and paperbarks, which provide habitat to a wide range of waterbirds and mammals.

Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston

On October 12, 2011, the Charleston Post and Courier reported on memos from E.P. Giambastiani to Charles Stimson Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, requesting that Hamdy, Padilla and al Marri be transferred to Guantanamo.

Old Coast Road

The countryside for this part is mostly jarrah and marri forest with some wetland vegetation and some cleared land being used for farming, especially around Myalup.

Red-capped Parrot

Marri seeds are the preferred diet, but birds also extract seeds from Karri (Eucalyptus marginata), woody pear (Xylomelum), Grevillea, Hakea, and She-oak (Casuarina), as well as insects such as psyllids, and even orchard fruit such as apples and pears.

Its natural habitat is Marri (Corymbia calophylla), but has adpated to farmland, orchards and suburban landscapes in Perth.

Siege of Kahun

A 300-man detachment from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Bombay Native Infantry, led by Captain Brown, marched on Kahun, then the Marri tribe's main stronghold, in order to support the Bombay field force's march north into Sindh.

South Western Highway

From then on the highway passes through thick forests featuring many native trees like jarrah, marri and karri.

The typical scenery on this part of the highway includes small dairy farms and orchards, jarrah and marri remnant forests and pine plantations.

Xanthorrhoea preissii

Its occurrence is a characteristic of two other Marri (Corymbia calophylla) communities, but the Marri/Xanthorrhoea community is distinguished by the drier soils of the communities range along the eastern edge of the Swan Coastal Plain.


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