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12 unusual facts about Badr


Abū Lahab

When the rest of the Quraysh went to Badr to protect their merchant-caravan from an expected attack, Abu Lahab remained in Mecca, sending in his place Abu Jahl's brother al-‘Āṣ ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīra who owed him four thousand dirhams that he could not pay.

The first people to reach Mecca with the news of the Quraysh defeat in the Battle of Badr were al-Haysuman and 'Abdullāh ibn al-Khuzā'ī, who bewailed the fact that so many of their chieftains had fallen on the battlefield.

Badr, Saudi Arabia

Akhnas ibn Shariq al-Thaqifi and the Banu Zuhrah where with the Meccan as part of the escort that preceded the Battle of Badr, but since he believed the caravan to be safe, he did not join Quraish on their way to a festival in Badr.

Bagbati massacre

On the early morning of 27 May, in a joint operation the Pakistani army, Al Badr, Razakars and the Peace Committee, surrounded the villages.

Banu Thaqif

Akhnas ibn Shariq al-Thaqifi and the Banu Zuhrah where with the Meccan as part of the escort that preceded the battle of Badr but since he believed the caravan to be safe, he did not join Quraish on their way to a festival in Badr.

Collaborators Act 1972

Al-Shams and Al-Badr was also formed in order to counter the guerrilla activities of the Mukti Bahini which grew increasingly organised and militarily successful during in the second half of 1971.

Al-Badr members Siddiqur Rahman and Muhammad Galib were sentenced life imprisonment on the journalist Nizamuddin murder case.

JeemTV

Al Jazeera Children’s Channel is free to view on Badr, Arabsat, Nilesat, Hotbird and Eurobird and is also distributed by a number of other operators across Europe.

Muhammad al-Badr

Meanwhile Sayf al-Islam Ahmad had managed to get away from Taizz and made for Hajjah, where he gathered the tribes around him, proclaimed himself Imam with the title of al-Nasir and within a month of the assassination had easily regained control of Sana'a and executed the principal perpetrators of the rebellion.

Santosh Chandra Bhattacharya

On 14 December 1971, a squad of Al Badr militia abducted him from his Isa Khan residence in Dhaka.

Selina Parvin

A lone survivor of the killing testified to the court that being blindfolded, he heard a woman Selina Parvin screaming and begging Al-Badr men for her life, appealed to spare her as she had a kid and there was none to take care of him but her.

During December 13, 1971 like other intellectual martyrs she was seized by members of the paramilitary force Al-Badr.


Al-Amiri

Hadi Al-Amiri, head of the Badr Organization, military wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC); Iraqi member of parliament

Al-Zawraa TV

In January 2007, the station was noted broadcasting on the Eutelsat-owned Eurobird satellite and on the Arabsat/Badr satellite, both at the 26 degrees east orbital position.

Badr Airlines

Today, Badr Airlines operates flights on behalf of UN MovCon, WFP, UNICEF, UNOPS, ESS, MSF, FAO and IRC, using aircraft and helicopters covering most areas of Sudan.

Badr Jafar

In February 2011, Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey launched a non-profit theatre academy in the Middle East together with Badr Jafar.

Basketball at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

Egypt: Ibrahim Adawi (74), Ismail Ahmed (76), Wael Badr (78), Amir Fanan (80), Tarek El Ghannam (78), Samir El Hosseny (76), Mohamed El Kerdany (77), Sherif Gunadi (80), Ramy Gunady (81), Ahmed Monir, Ahmed Sakr (75), Abdelaziz Sherif

Combatants of the Iraq War

This violent break between Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the rival Badr Organization of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, seen in the fighting in the town of Amarah on October 20, 2006, would severely complicate the efforts of Iraqi and US officials to quell the soaring violence.

Emad Abu Ghazy

Abu Ghazy was born in the Egyptian city of Cairo in 1955, his parents were former minister of culture Badr El-Din Abu Ghazy and artist Reaya Helmy, his father's uncle was Egypt's number one sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar.

Gul Hameed Bhatti

He also joined forces with Abid Ali Kazi and Nauman Badr and launched the Cricket Statistians Association.

Imams of Yemen

This produced an important chain of events: the birth of the nationalist Free Yemeni Movement in the mid-1940s, an aborted 1948 revolution in which Imam Yahya was killed, a failed 1955 coup against Imam Ahmad, and finally, the 1962 revolution in which the recently enthroned imam Muhammad al-Badr was deposed by a group of nationalist officers and the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) was proclaimed under the leadership of Abdullah al-Sallal.

Islam in Bangladesh

And now they are after a long time the justice process for their terror and violent war crimes have been started and is alleged that the current leader of the party, Motiur Rahman Nizami (as well as previous leaders, and other party members) participated in alongside the Pakistani army in perpetrating the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities as Razakars and members of the Al-Badr militias.

Mongol invasions of Syria

The Mongol protecrate and ruler of Mosul, Badr al-Din's sons sided with the Mamluks and rebelled against the rule of Hulagu.

Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite

The Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRS), commercially known as Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS) is a dual purpose Earth observational and optical satellite which is schedule to launch in 2014 for the replacement of Badr-II satellite.

Rassids

This produced an important chain of events: the birth of the nationalist Free Yemeni Movement in the mid-1940s, an aborted 1948 revolution in which Imam Yahya was killed, a failed 1955 coup against Imam Ahmad, and finally, the 1962 revolution in which imam Muhammad al-Badr was deposed by a group of nationalist officers and the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) was proclaimed under the leadership of Abdullah al-Sallal.