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2 unusual facts about Omar al-Bashir


Gaafar Nimeiry

The next year, he ran in the presidential election against incumbent president Omar al-Bashir, but did poorly, obtaining only 9.6% of the votes in elections that were boycotted by the Sudanese opposition and alleged to be rigged.

Nuba peoples

The Governments of Sudan under Sadiq al-Mahdi and Omar al-Bashir also armed militias of Baggara Arabs to fight the Nuba and transferred many Nuba forcibly to camps.


Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein

Despite being a strong Islamist, Hussein remained a loyal Bashir supporter following Bashir's rift with Hassan al-Turabi; the leader of the National Islamic Front, and quite possibly the most influential Sudanese Islamist, who had supported Bashir in his 1989 coup attempt.

Adré

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to "destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad."

Afghan War prisoner escapes

In July 2005, Omar al-Faruq, the highest-ranked prisoner at the base and one of the highest-ranked al-Qaeda officers ever captured, escaped along with Libyan Abu Yahya al-Libi, Saudi Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani and Syrian Abdullah Al-Shami.

Atif Bashir

After leaving Cardiff City, Bashir signed for Afan Lido in 2004 and played 11 games and scoring 1 goal for the club.

In March 2011, Bashir represented Pakistan in their unsuccessful 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualifying campaign, appearing at the heart of the defence alongside Zesh Rehman in defeats to Turkmenistan and India.

Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre

Professor Bashir commented that the complex takes your breath away and Tony Windsor, Independent MP for New England, stated that AELEC could be compared to the Sydney Opera House.

Bakri Hassan Saleh

Saleh took part in the 1989 coup that brought Omar al-Bashir to power, and served on the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, which governed Sudan following the coup.

Bashir Adeniyi Musa

Bashir Adeniyi Musa was one of 88 potential ambassadors including nominated by the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and screened by the Nigerian Senate.

CIA activities in Sudan

Yet a day earlier, Bashir told French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that only Africans would be accepted.

Derek Plumbly

In February 2008 he was appointed by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to head the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, charged with monitoring the implementation of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Elim Garak

At one point, Doctor Bashir told him the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and upon hearing the moral ("no one believes a liar when he is telling the truth"), Garak insisted that the true moral was "you should never tell the same lie twice".

Indian Mujahideen

Bashir, who had stayed in Ahmedabad along with Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer, a Co-conspirator, had bought five SIM cards using local names and addresses.

International Union of Muslim Scholars

Other notable figures in the IUMS, which is reportedly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, include Faisal Malawi, Jamal Badawi, and Essam Al-Bashir.

JadaL

In local and international concerts and festivals, JadaL often performs with local and regional artists, such as Amr Diab, Canteca de Maco, , Rim Banna, DAM (band), Omar Al-Abdallat, Mashrou' Leila and others.

Julian Bashir

Subutai, the Mongol general from whom Dr. Bashir apparently derives his middle name.

Kataeb Party

To this was added in 1973 another commando platoon (Arabic: Maghaweer) and a “Combat School” was secretly opened at Tabrieh, near Bsharri in the Keserwan District; another special unit, the “Bashir Gemayel brigade” – named after Pierre Gemayel’s youngest son, Bashir – was formed in the following year, absorbing the old “PG” company in the process.

Khaliq Junejo

In 1995, after the death of Syed, the two political parties Jeay Sindh Mahaz (partly) and Jeay Sindh Tehrik (Bashir Qureshi Group) merged and formed Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz.

Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

In the next scene, the two couples are shown in the infirmary, with Doctor Bashir attending to their wounds, electing not to ask questions.

Lukyamuzi Bashir

Bashir is the Channel O Ugandan representative and the director of photography for the South Africa-based music TV channel and has worked on Off the Record, Introducing Keko and Lifestyle Uganda for the channel.

Mount Lebanon Emirate

When Ibrahim Pasha moved his army into Syria in 1831, Bashir II offered his allegiance to the Egyptian forces and was granted extensive authority over much of Lebanon.

Nuba Mountains

The international community, including a number of celebrities such as actor George Clooney, have recently travelled to the Nuba Mountains and documented the continued genocidal activities of the Bashir government.

Omar al-Faruq

The U.S. did not acknowledge his escape until November when they were unable to produce him as a witness called by defense attorney Michael Waddington, in the trial of a U.S. sergeant, Alan Driver, accused of abuse at the prison.

He was captured in Bogor, Indonesia in 2002 by an Indonesian security agent who handed him over to the United States.

Omar al-Qattan

The former was the first feature film to be entirely shot in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and received several international awards after its premiere at the Director's Fortnight, Cannes.

Our Man Bashir

Whilst Bashir and O'Brien's adventures in the holosuites in the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Bannockburn have been mentioned in episodes, they were simply too expensive to be shown on screen effectively.

Shane Sewell

Sewell quickly clotheslined Bashir over the top rope to the floor and had to be calmed down by referee Earl Hebner.

Shovkat Alakbarova

In 1955, Alakbarova married film director and actor Latif Safarov, and later gave birth to two children: daughter Natella and son Bashir.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Section 31: Abyss, (Jeffrey Lang and David Weddle, July 2001): Dr. Bashir is sent by shadowy intelligence agency Section 31 to deal with a rogue S31 agent who has taken control of a Jem'Hadar cloning facility abandoned by the Dominion after the war, and who, like Bashir, is genetically enhanced.

Statistical Probabilities

Bound hand and foot, and left alone with Sarina (Faith Salie), Bashir convinces Sarina that her fellow augment's actions will result in their imprisonment and separation.

Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case

In an attempt to push for the release of Gibbons, two British Muslim peers (members of the House of Lords), Lord Ahmed (Labour) and Baroness Warsi (Conservative), visited Sudan with hopes of talking to the country's President Omar al-Bashir.

Tasie Lawrence

In August 2013, it was announced on the industry website, Deadline, that Lawrence had been cast in a lead role in an upcoming HBO comedy pilot, written by Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin.

Vinita Nair

In 2011, she was seen with MSNBC/New York, as a newsreader on "Martin Bashir" and anchoring the early morning news programs Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC.

Wordpower, Vol. 2: Directrix

This album features Divine Styler's Original Scheme Team member(s) Cokni O'Dire (only on the re-released version) and Bilal Bashir.


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