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1970 Pulitzer Prize

Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.

Ahmad Dilshad

Asia Times called him a "leading LeT Lashkar-e-Tayyiba ringleader"—a militant group devoted to an independence for the portion of Kashmir occupied by India.

Alexandru Nicolau

In 1916, Romania joined World War I on the side of the Entente and imposed an immediate ban on the local socialist movement, which had adopted a militant pacifist stance.

Alfred Nikita Mangena

While Mangena did not intend to lead a coup against Joshua Nkomo, he wished to reassert his power over the organization's militant activities.

Aly Hindy

Aly Hindy is the current Imam of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Canada, notable for his alleged connections to militant and fundamentalist elements, as well as his defence of Canadians accused of terrorism.

Avraham Stern

In September 1940, he founded a breakaway militant Zionist group named Lehi, called the "Stern Gang" by the British colonial authorities and by their assistants in the Yishuv establishment.

Battle of Dofas

The Battle of Dofas was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of al-Qaeda, during which the militants destroyed an Army artillery battalion of the 39th Armored Brigade in the town of Dofas, which was being used as a main base for artillery support against the militant-held towns of Zinjibar and Jaʿār.

Battle of Zinjibar

Later during the day, militants attacked a stadium near Zinjibar, from where the military was conducting attacks against militant positions.

The Battle of Zinjibar was a battle during the 2011 Yemeni uprising between forces loyal to Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of al-Qaeda, for control of the town of Zinjibar and its surroundings as part of the wider insurgency in the self-declared Islamic Emirate of Abyan.

In the days following the attack, the military conducted air-strikes against militant positions around Zinjibar which they claimed killed 42 Al-Qaeda fighters.

On 22 July, a source affiliated with the local tribes stated that armed tribespeople intercepted a convoy of militants headed to Zinjibar near the town of Mudiyah, killing one militant, wounding another, and arresting ten.

Dark Harvest Commando

The Dark Harvest Commando was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II.

Dias contados

Antonio (Carmelo Gómez), a brazen, individualistic ETA militant, travels with two fellow cell members, Carlos (Joseba Apaolaza) and Lourdes (Elvira Mínguez) to Madrid, where they intend to carry out a terrorist attack on a police station.

Elizabeth Duke

Elizabeth Ann Duke (born 1940), former teacher and militant fugitive

Fawzi Mutlaq al-Rawi

Rawi was accused of having twice met with a former commander of the Ba'athist militant group Jeish Muhammad in 2004, and having told the commander that the group would receive material support from the Syrian government.

Fernando Rosas

He entered University of Lisbon's Faculty of Law where he remained as an active militant.

French Chad

A clever politician and charismatic leader of the Tijaniyya Islamic brotherhood in Chad, Koulamallah campaigned in different times and places as a member of the Baguirmi nobility (he was an estranged son of the sultan), a radical socialist leader, or a militant Muslim fundamentalist.

Ghadiya

Abu Ghadiya (1978?-2008), a Sunni militant active with al-Qaeda in Iraq

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam is a non-fiction work written by Mark Bowden.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Mystique et militant de la non-violence, Namur, Fidélité, 2010, preface by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

Ignatz Waghalter

He secured the interest and support of militant New York trade unions, the noted African-American musician Alfred Jack Thomas, and such prominent representatives of the Harlem Renaissance as James Weldon Johnson.

Insurgence Records

They also sponsored the publication of The Militant Tradition – Commemorating Canadian Volunteers of the International Brigades, a short text about North American involvement in the Spanish Civil War.

Jerusalem BMW attack

According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represents a new militant tactic which is less lethal but could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide bombings.

Jimmy Deane

After attempting to bring about an unsuccessful fusion between the RSL and the International Group as well as joint work with the International Socialists in a magazine Young Guard, Jimmy Deane suggested Peter Taaffe as his successor as General Secretary and editor of the soon to be launched Militant.

Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac

The Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UÇPMB) was a separatist militant group fighting for independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the three municipalities: Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa, home to most of the ethnic Albanians of Central Serbia, adjacent to Kosovo.

Magnus Ranstorp

Dr Magnus Ranstorp, born March 13, 1965 in Hästveda is a Swedish scholar who has made thorough studies about Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements.

Magomed Khashiev

Magomed Khashiev (10 October 1977 – 17 April 2004), also known as "Sokhib" and "Khattab", was the Emir of the Sunzhensky District and a militant in the Russian federal subjects of Ingushetia and Chechnya.

Mark Stephen Meadows

Meadows' third book is a travelogue of Sri Lanka and study of the Tamil militant movement titled, "Tea Time With Terrorists,".

Maynard C. Krueger

During the Socialist Party's faction fight of the 1930s, Krueger was an active member of the so-called "Militant" faction of young Marxists who sought to turn the SP to the left.

Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom

Militant Liberty: A Program of Evaluation and Assessment of Freedom is a United States Department of Defense project that aimed to utilize information operations and resources at the Pentagon’s disposal to counteract the ideological threat of Communism during the Cold War.

Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934

A number of militant members, including several Communist Party members who had gone to the newly formed Communist League of America (Left Opposition) in the internal split following Trotsky's expulsion, became members of Local 574 in the early 1930s.

Negu Gorriak

With such a militant message, it is no surprise that the group idolised many black militants including Malcolm X, making more of a connection with the racist oppression and a marginalised form of expression, hip hop.

Omar Abdul Rahman

Omar Abdel-Rahman (born 1938), Egyptian leader of militant group, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Paul Löbe

At the time of Löbe's state funeral at the Rathaus Schöneberg on 9 August 1967, Andreas Baader (the later Red Army Faction militant), the author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others in a satirical rally carried a coffin bearing the words “SENAT” to the front of the city hall.

Rafael Eitan

On 3 June 1982, Abu Nidal's militant group gravely wounded Israel's ambassador in London, Shlomo Argov, in an assassination attempt.

Renouvin

Jacques Renouvin (1905 – 1944), royalist militant in France during the Second World War

Rina Lazo

Her early artistic, social and political life was strongly tied with the that of Rivera and Kahlo, and she became a militant supporter of the Mexican Communist Party.

Sadakazu Uyenishi

Notable individuals who were directly influenced by Sadakazu Uyenishi's teaching included William Garrud, whose book "the Complete Jujitsuan" (published in 1914) became a standard reference work on the subject; Edith Garrud, who went on to establish jujitsu classes for members of the militant Suffragist movement; and Mrs. Emily Watts, whose 1906 book The Fine Art of Jujitsu was the first English work to record Kodokan judo kata.

Terrorism in Indonesia

On March 9, 2010, Dulmatin, a senior figure in the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia was killed in a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta by Detachment 88.

The Holy Warrior

Hizbul Mujahideen or "party of holy warriors" - a Kashmiri militant group

The Militant

The original Militant terminated in 1934 at the time of the merger of the Cannon-led CLA with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to form the Workers Party of the United States (WPUS).

Thol. Thirumavalavan

Thirumavalavan had a guest appearance as a Tamil militant leader in Sri Lanka in his first film 'Anbu Thozhi' (Lady Love), directed by L. G. Ravichandran.

Titan Empire

A militant government originating from a settlement on Saturn's moon Titan have started attacking neighboring moons and planets and taking over their government, similar to the expanse of Germany and the Nazi party during World War II.

U.S.–Middle East Free Trade Area

Complications could still exist in getting trade with Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority given continuous Israeli control of disputed territories, and the actions of militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Ultra-red

Known for their militant brand of political ambient music along with artist Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra-red are also part of a wave of young conceptual artists who combine participatory art with their own commitments to political organizing.

Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares

As historian and former MR-8 militant Daniel Aarão Reis Filho declared to journalist Elio Gaspari, "as part of the radicalization process initiated on 1961, the project of the leftist organizations that supported the armed struggle was revolutionary, abusive and dictatorial (...) There is not even one document of those organizations in which they present themselves as a tool of democratic resistance".

Vinayagamoorthy

Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (born 1966), Sri Lankan politician and former militant

William Monroe Trotter House

A graduate of Harvard College, Trotter helped organize the "Boston Literary and Historical Association" in 1901, a forum for militant political thinkers, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Oswald Garrison Villard.

Yongzheng Emperor

Some sources indicate that Yinxiang, the most militant of the princes, then assembled a group of special Peking soldiers from the Fengtai command to seize immediate control of the Forbidden City and surrounding areas to prevent usurpation by Yinsi's cronies.


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