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	Ali Ahmad Said - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ali Ahmad Said Asbar (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر; transliterated: alî ahmadi s-sacîdi l-'asbar or Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس), is a Syrian-born poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France.
		Said was born in Al Qassabin, in Northern Syria.
		Said was considered to be a candidate for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, but the award went to British playwright Harold Pinter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Ahmad_Said (553 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Adonis
		Born in 1930, the Syrian Adonis is said to be one of the founders of modern Arab poetry, of which he has been one of the leading exponents since the 60s.
		Poets have always been good and sometimes cheeky at inventing pen-names, and this is certainly true of Ali Ahmad Said, who was born in 1930 in a village in northern Syria as the son of a farmer.
		’Adunis’) was born on 01.01.1930 as ‘Ali Ahmad Sa’id Isbir in Qassabin, a village in the Syrian Alavite mountains near the port Lattakia.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?403 (982 words)

	The Religion of Islam : Fasting -- by Maulana Muhammad Ali
		He said, Then keep the fast for one day and break it for one day, and such was the fasting of David, on whom be peace, and this is the best of voluntary fasts.
		Then Salman said to Abu Darda': "Verily thou owest a duty to thy Lord, and thou owest a duty to thyself, and thou owest a duty to thy wife and children." When this was mentioned to the Prophet, he approved of what Salman had said and done (Bu.
		What has been said hitherto relates only to the external side of the fast but, as stated in the beginning, the essence of the fast is its moral and spiritual value, and the Quran and Tradition have laid special stress on this.
	ahmadiyya.ws /text/books/mali/rlgnislm/fasting.shtml (7650 words)

	NEWS - Comcast.net
		Ali Ahmad Jalali said the eight have been detained separately since May 16, when Clementina Cantoni, 32, was abducted at gunpoint in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
		He said the mother had been detained on suspicion of involvement in an earlier kidnapping of the son of an Afghan businessman, but she was not charged.
		Jalali said earlier that combined pressure from the Afghan public, President Hamid Karzai, tribal leaders and Muslim clerics persuaded the kidnapper, whom he described as a criminal, to release her.
	www.comcast.net /news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/06/11/153848.html (370 words)

	Some question intentions of U.S. war in Afghanistan - Minnesota Daily
		Ali and University student Hasina Kohistani, also of Afghan descent, said the war was fought for the wrong reasons.
		Ali said there were economic and political benefits to invading Afghanistan, such as the amount of natural resources in the area.
		Ali said thousands of innocent civilians were killed in the war, including many killed by the U.S. military.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2005/04/06/64001 (614 words)

	Ahmad Ali: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Ahmad Ali's summary was automatically generated using 208 references found on the Internet.
		Ali began his career in education and the development of manpower, whereby he was appointed Director, Scientific and Islamic Institute (Aden 1958-59).
		Ali has traveled extensively to be in close touch with all the activities IDB is engaged or participating in.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/ali_ahmad_2213225.aspx (853 words)

	Army Times - News - More News.
		The U.S. military said the bloodshed in Kandahar and Zabul provinces was as much the result of operations by government forces and the 18,000 soldiers of a U.S.-led international coalition as from a resurgence by Taliban loyalists and other insurgents.
		Moore said nine Afghan soldiers died in a firefight that erupted when rebels ambushed an Afghan army patrol near Spin Ghar in Kandahar late Wednesday, but she said 20 insurgents were killed after U.S. warplanes joined the battle.
		A spokesman for the governor of Zabul, Ali Khail, told the AP that documents found on the dead militants in the mountains of Dehchopan district showed two were Chechens and one was Pakistani.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-828624.php (552 words)

	Karzai to Arm Afghan Tribesmen In Bid to Stem Taliban Attacks
		Wardak said the rebels have stepped up attacks in an attempt to scare Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and Romania from deploying about 6,000 troops in the country as part of an expanded NATO force.
		Chris Miller, a military spokesman, said he was not permitted to disclose the soldier's nationality.
		In London, the Defense Ministry said a British soldier was killed and another seriously injured in a firefight with suspected Taliban forces in the southern Helmand province.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100852_pf.html (520 words)

	The Cavalier Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Moynahan said his group plans to "do phone banking" and gear their message toward students who are still undecided.
		Other students said they are less informed about the upcoming primary but interested in the presidential election.
		Ahmad added that membership of the College Republicans has increased steadily in the past three years.
	www.cavalierdaily.com /CVArticle.asp?ID=18367&pid=1102 (489 words)

	Maulana Muhammad Ali - Talk at Lahore Ahmadiyya Centre, 5 October 2003
		For a long time he has borne a worldly loss in order to stay in Qadian to serve the religion, and is learning the deep knowledge of the Holy Quran from Hazrat Maulvi Nur-ud-Din.
		Said all his prayers with full concentration and humility.
		He was not at all in the habit of back-biting or complaining.” — Maulana Ahmad Yar.
	www.ahmadiyya.org /m-ali/talk.htm (1981 words)

	U.S. Troops Bombed
		He said tribal leaders contacted the army on Friday to tell them the bodies would be arriving.
		Noting a continuing shortage of diesel fuel, which he said was the work of sabotage attacks on refineries, Bremer pleaded with attackers to think about fellow Iraqis waiting in the blistering heat for buses that ran late or never came.
		Also Saturday, the military said a U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded Friday in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their convoy east of Baghdad.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,FL_bombed_080303,00.html (997 words)

	Inmate's family demands answers \| PerthNow
		Mr Ansi said the family had assigned local lawyers to lobby the Yemeni government and international rights organisations to press for a probe into the death after Washington said he and two Saudi inmates had committed suicide.
		Ahmad will not be buried before it becomes clear what will be done about the proposed inquiry, he said.
		US officials said the three men were found hanging from the ceiling of their cells in the maximum security section on June 10.
	www.news.com.au /perthnow/story/0,21598,19486911-401,00.html (382 words)

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		The United Nation's envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, said he was "profoundly distressed" by the attack in the village of Hutala.
		Khalilzad said he was "deeply saddened" by the "tragic loss of innocent life," and had spoken to Karzai.
		Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali said the three were held by Afzal Khan, a former militia commander, over a land dispute.
	www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=40114 (1002 words)

	Citizens Explain Why They Did Not Register as Voters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ali thought that as it was the first time for elections to be held in our country, there was nothing in it for him.
		Ahmad Al-Zahrani, high school teacher, who did not register his vote, said that it was simply because he did not have time.
		Ali Saadi, a Saudi working in Dubai, said he could not register his vote because he was outside the Kingdom.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=1§ion=0&article=61002&d=25&m=3&y=2005 (463 words)

	CNN.com - World Cup soccer returns to Kabul - Nov. 24, 2003
		Still, fans and players said they felt immense pride to host a match sanctioned by soccer's world body, though some said they were embarrassed by the condition of the stadium, which is still pocked by bullets and a bit short on grass.
		Ahmad is too young to remember the last internationally sanctioned match on Afghan soil, which was before the 1979 Soviet invasion that plunged the country into nearly a quarter-century of war.
		One fan said he remembered watching as two convicted criminals had their throats slit, their blood running into the penalty area.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/SPORT/football/11/23/soccer.afghanistan.ap (529 words)

	Said, Ali Ahmad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sa'id received a degree in philosophy at the University of Damascus in 1954 and served in the Syrian military from 1954 to 1956.
		He then moved to Beirut, where he received a Ph.D. from St. Joseph University in 1973.
		In the 1960s Sa'id helped create a new form of Arabic poetry, characterized by elevated diction and complex surrealism in poems like Aghani Mihyar ad-Dimashqi (1961; "Songs of Mihyar of Damascus").
	www.damascus-online.com /se/bio/said_ali_ahmad.htm (135 words)

	Karzai: Tribesmen Will Help Fight Taliban, Karzai: Tribesmen Will Help Fight Biggest Increase in Taliban Violence in ...
		But he said there would be a dramatic increase in the ranks of security forces in some areas.
		He said that violence had increased in the south because the Taliban was making an all-out push to scare Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and Romania from deploying some 6,000 troops to the region.
		In London, the Ministry of Defense said a British soldier was killed and another was seriously injured in a separate incident on Sunday _ a firefight with suspected Taliban forces in the southern Helmand province.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/11/ap/world/mainD8I69PFO0.shtml (861 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Three Americans held in abuse at private jail in Afghanistan
		Afghan officials also dismissed claims by the apparent ringleader, Jonathan K. Idema, that he was a "special adviser" to their security forces, saying the three had posed as military agents on a self-appointed hunt for terrorists.
		One police official said Idema's group appeared to be behind the disappearance of a man in west Kabul three weeks ago.
		He said a man called Jack told the officers he had orders to arrest a terrorist before he could blow himself up in a government building.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001975444_afghanistan09.html (542 words)

	Arrested American Mercenaries Abused Prisoners
		The official said reports on the case showed that the men were beaten, though he had no details.
		Still, the intelligence official said the three foreigners were wearing uniforms that appeared to be from the U.S. military and were armed with assault rifles.
		One of the men "said he had orders to quickly arrest a terrorist before he could blow himself up in a government building," the official said.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6450.htm (630 words)

	Municipalities Starting To Offer VoIP - News - Network Computing
		Steve Crummey, vCentrix CEO, said Tuesday that of the some 2,000 municipalities in the U.S. that already provide some sort of public utility, about 400 are ripe for VoIP.
		Talal Ali-Ahmad, founder and president of vCentrix, said VoIP is simply the next migration of services, not only for municipalities, but also for other ILECs, CLECs, MSOs, and ISPs--all of them targeted by vCentrix.
		One driving force behind the rapid growth of VoIP, he added, is the growing interest on the part of telecommunications service providers to deliver VoIP as part of their triple play bundle, typically a package of offerings that include cable television, broadband, and local and long distance telephoning.
	www.networkingpipeline.com /168600113 (412 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Election officials arrested three Pakistanis and said they planned to detonate the truck in the center of the city on polling day.
		A flurry of rockets landed in several cities around the country on Thursday and Friday, including one that hit a parking lot near the U.S. Embassy, and another that injured a young girl and an old man in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
		Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali said more than 100,000 Afghan soldiers and police, regional militias allied to the government, U.S. troops and international peacekeepers were deployed to protect the vote.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=52993 (761 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The president said local tribal recruits would strengthen police ranks, and would take their orders from the government.
		He acknowledged that violence had increased in the south, but said it was because the Taliban was making an all-out push to scare Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and Romania from deploying some 6,000 troops to the region as part of a NATO force.
		Wardak said the local security forces would also be strengthened by being equipped with better weapons and bulletproof jackets.
	www.tkb.org /NewsStory.jsp?storyID=124796 (579 words)

	"Beyond the East/West: Towards a Culture of the Future" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ancient Arab poets placed emphasis not on the geographic framework of the homeland but on its human essence: the homeland is the place that fosters honor-- in the words of al-Mutanabbi-- or in modern terms it is the place in which man is able to live in dignity and freedom.
		If we add to this a word attributed to the Iman Ali, the fourth Caliph in which he says: "No country is more deserving of you than another.
		Hugo once said" Every self comprises a complete model of all the selves." Man is a totality before he is a part.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/btheast.htm (2146 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
		And he said on Monday that foreign fighters from Arab and neighboring countries were carrying out attacks with the Taliban.
		Afghan officials have said that the Taliban and their allies are stepping up their attacks in an effort to disrupt upcoming parliamentary and local elections.
		He said they were changing their tactics and using more effective explosives.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/GG13Ag03.html (716 words)

	USATODAY.com - Afghan official: Intercepts show Taliban planning in Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The brother of Baluchistan's health minister was arrested this month for alleged Taliban ties and accused of plotting to kill a relative of the governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, which borders Baluchistan.
		In Ghazni, Mohammed Chaos Aolya, the director of the Red Crescent Society here, said police were slow to react when he received an urgent phone call on Aug. 13 from a frantic worker injured in the Taliban attack.
		Aolya said anybody familiar with the province knows that "Taliban and al-Qaeda walk around freely during the day." He said Taliban supporters no longer wear the fl turbans favored by the religious militia during its rule, but don't otherwise do much to hide.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-09-23-afghan-taliban_x.htm (1152 words)

	Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
		"Out of piety, Imam Ahmad never gave a formal legal opinion (fatwa) while Imam Shafi`i was in Iraq, and when he later formulated his school of jurisprudence, he mainly drew on clear texts from the holy [Qur’an], Hadith, and scholarly agreement, with relatively little expansion from analogical reasoning (qiyâs).
		Abu Dawud said of him: ‘Ahmad’s gatherings were gatherings of the afterlife: nothing of this world was mentioned.
		Imam Ahmad never once missed praying in the night, and used to recite the entire [Qur’an] daily.
	www.islamawareness.net /Madhab/Hanbali/ahmad_ibn_hanbal.html (1146 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Three foreign UN hostages released in Afghanistan
		Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali said they were freed without the payment of any ransom or the release of any prisoners, as the purported kidnappers had demanded.
		Akbar Agha, the leader of the shadowy Taliban splinter group claiming to have abducted the trio said two of them were freed in exchange for a commitment to release 24 Taliban prisoners.
		He said no ransom was paid for their freedom.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/UNID/2B6B97CFCA064B4FC1256F55002658A0?OpenDocument (547 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Warlord's Force Seizes a City In Afghanistan
		Militia forces loyal to Abdurrashid Dostum stormed into Meymaneh, the capital of Faryab province, about 260 miles northwest of Kabul, said Ali Ahmad Jalali, the Afghan interior minister.
		Jalali said the government would deploy forces to the area to oust the militia and reinstate the Kabul-appointed governor, Enayatullah Enayat, who had fled to the airport.
		In unrelated violence, two Afghan army soldiers were among seven people killed across the insurgency-torn south and east, officials said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62511-2004Apr8?language=printer (302 words)

	Azzaman in English
		Ali declined to give figures about the U.N. and Danish grants but said “the sums are good.”
		He said the provincial council has managed to restore relative normalcy to the province, paving the way for the start of several reconstruction projects.
		Ali said the provincial council, however, was not “completely pleased with what has been achieved.
	www.azzaman.com /english/index.asp?fname=news\2005-08-24\10496.htm (315 words)

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