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	Omar al-Mukhtar Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Omar then quickly modified his own tactics and was able to count on constant help from Egypt.
		At the end of October 1929 Omar denounced the compromise and reestablished a unity of action among Libyan forces, preparing himself for the ultimate confrontation with General Rodolfo Graziani, the military commander from March 1930.
		Omar was endowed with a quick and lively intelligence; was knowledgeable in religious matters, and revealed an energetic and impetuous character, unselfish and uncompromising; ultimately, he remained very religious and poor, even though he had been one of the most important Senusist figures."
	www.bookrags.com /biography/omar-al-mukhtar (693 words)

	Omar Mukhtar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omar Mukhtar (aka Omar Al-Mukhtar) (1862-1931) was from the tribe of Mnifa, born in a small town called Zawia Janzour.
		Mukhtar’s nearly twenty year stuggle came to an end when he became wounded in battle and was subsequently captured by the Italian army.
		Mukhtar was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be executed by hanging in a public place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omar_Mukhtar (551 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Chronicles \| The Western way
		Omar Al-Mukhtar refused to accept that occupation, raised the banner of Jihad and appealed to the people of Tripoli to expel the colonialist intruders." The newspaper compared Al- Mukhtar to a man whose home had been broken into and calls out to family, friends and neighbours to catch the thief.
		Omar Touson was the grandson of the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, Said Pasha.
		Omar Touson was not alone in his sense of foreboding.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/623/chrncls.htm (3069 words)

	Islam Online- Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Their leader is 73-year old Omar Mukhtar, a teacher-made-fighter, who has taught his fellow revolutionaries the meaning of courage and bravery.
		Mukhtar refuses to be conquered, arguing that their land has been inhumanely taken away from them and that it is their God-given right to resist such injustice.
		Nevertheless, Mukhtar never once sells out his cause; even when he is in the hands of his enemies, he refuses to beg for his life.
	www.islamonline.net /English/ArtCulture/2001/03/article5.shtml (727 words)

	US Shooting In The Dark In Afghanistan
		Omar issued the tape from his hiding place in Afghanistan, the daily reported, quoting Taliban spokesman Mohammad Mukhtar Mujahid.
		Omar has named a 10-member leadership council to organise the resistance against the U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.
		The 10 men identified by Omar as members of the Rahbari Shura (leadership council) include former Taliban military commanders, mostly veterans of the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation of 1979-1989.
	www.rense.com /general38/afghe.htm (775 words)

	Omar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omar Mukhtar - A freedom fighter from Libya
		Mohammed Omar - leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan
		Omar Bradley - United States general during World War Two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omar (134 words)

	Omar Mukhtar Summary
		Omar Mukhtar (Arabic عمر المختار ‘Umar Al-Mukhtār) (1862-1931) was from the tribe of Mnifa, born in a small town called Zawia Janzour.
		Mukhtar’s nearly twenty year struggle came to an end when he became wounded in battle and was subsequently captured by the Italian army.
		Mukhtar was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be executed by hanging in a public place.
	www.bookrags.com /Omar_Mukhtar (1219 words)

	Omar Mukhtar--Teacher Turned Freedom Fighter (Part 1)
		This hero was Omar Mukhtar, an aging freedom fighter and former teacher, who was played so brilliantly by actor Anthony Quinn.
		Omar Mukhtar was a real life hero, not a Hollywood-created, exaggerated version of one.
		Mukhtar's men attacked outposts, ambushed troops, and cut lines of supply and communication, leaving the Italians astonished and embarassed to be outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a "bedouin."
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arab_culture_and_identity/56387 (506 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Lion of the Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The only man standing in his way was Omar Mukhtar, a teacher and scholar transformed into a guerrilla leader.
		But Mukhtar knows how to use the mysteries of the desert to his advantage; he retaliates with a total triumph over one of Graziani's highly armed divisions.
		Anthony Quinn puts in a stellar performance as Mukhtar, a complicated man who is a Koran scholar, a fortress of strength, and a freedom figher par excellence.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_7799.html (543 words)

	OMAR MUKHTAR - LION OF THE DESERT - Film, Videos, DVDs, Videos - Islamic Goods Direct
		Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man - Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn).
		A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar has committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime.
		Whole villages had to be built to house the cast and crew of 400 in remote filming locations, along with a medical center to treat ailments from scorpion stings, to heat stroke, to broken bones suffered in battle scenes.
	www.islamicgoodsdirect.co.uk /product_info.php/products_id/747 (304 words)

	Asia Times - US shooting in the dark in Afghanistan
		In an audio tape sent to the Pakistan daily The News, which is accepted as authentic, the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, urges Muslims to step up their jihad against the US and other coalition occupation forces in Afghanistan.
		Omar has named a 10-member leadership council to organize the resistance against the US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan.
		The 10 men identified by Omar as members of the Rahbari Shura (leadership council) include former Taliban military commanders, most of whom are veterans of the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation of 1979-1989.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EF28Ag01.html (1272 words)

	Powell Urges Return to Peace Process - Ecademy
		Unfortunately, Mukhtar's nearly twenty year struggle came to an end when he became wounded in battle and was subsequently captured by the Italian army.
		When the sentence was read and Mukhtar was asked if he wanted to say anything, he replied, "From God we have come, and to God we must return." Mukhtar was hanged before his people (on orders of the Italian court) to ensure that the Libyan spirit of resistance would die with him.
		But Omar Mukhtar lived on in the hearts of his people, and remains a true symbol of defiance to oppression, not just among the Libyan people, but among all Arabs.
	www.ecademy.com /node.php?id=35593 (1126 words)

	Lion of the Desert
		8:00 PM Lion of the Desert is the action/drama epic of the struggle of Omar Mukhtar, leader of the Muslim resistance in North Africa in the 1920s and 30s, against the imperialism of Mussolini and the Italian army.
		Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man -- Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn).
		A teacher by profession, guerilla by obligation, Mukhtar has commited himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime.
	georgetown.edu /organizations/msa/events/spring99/lionofthedesert.html (158 words)

	Biography
		Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar Ahmed Omar was born in Eritrea in 1909 in a village close to the coast of the Red Sea.
		Shortly after the death of his father, Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar, at the age of 15, left his village to go to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
		In 1939 Sheikh Ibrahim Mukhtar was hospitalized because of his poor health.
	mukhtar.ca /contentN.php?type=viewarticle&id=75&category=ebio_mukhtar (1587 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		Omar al-Mukhtar was a Libyan who became a folk hero throughout the Arab world due to his fight against Italian colonialism.
		Many of the attacks claimed by this group were actually carried out by members of the Tanzim, although Hamas has claimed that this group is in fact comprised of members of Hamas’s Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, operating under a different name in order to avoid investigation and prosecution.
		It is unknown whether the Forces of Omar al-Mukhtar group is related to the National Revolutionary Command (Omar al-Mukhtar), although it’s markedly different targets, and the large time span between group activities, would clearly suggest otherwise.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=277 (371 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		Against heavy odds these fighters under the leadership of Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) took these fascists on in the Green mountains where they were vulnerable (like the Vietnamese did to the Americans decades later) and inflicted heavy casualties on their numerically superior force.
		The film first released in 1986 has now been dubbed in Hindi under the title Omar Mukhtar and the recent Iraqi war makes the subject even more relevant, showing how the Mojahideen shows grit and determination in defending their land and also exposing the expansionist designs of the Italian fascists.
		The strategy used by Omar is simple but clever and earns the admiration of even the enemy and though the film is 180 minutes long it is quite absorbing.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050313/spectrum/main5.htm (437 words)

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		The film LION OF THE DESERT directed and produced by Moustafa Akkad and starring Anthony Quinn as Omar Mukhtar, Rod Steiger as Mussolini and Oliver Reed as General Graziani was one of the greatest film ever produced and directed by a Muslim Director in a very balanced approach.
		Inspirational in the resistance towards the oppressor is the leadership of one man-Omar Mukhtar.
		A Quranic teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Omar Mukhtar has committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime.
	www.banadir.com /from_my_box.shtml (1723 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lion of the Desert at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is one of those rare obscure masterpieces that deserves much more attention than it got in the U.S. It probably didn't help that the real-life hero, Omar Mukhtar, was an Arab freedom fighter in Libya, not exactly one of the most popular countries nowadays.
		Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) was a Bedouin who refused to compromise with the invaders.
		Quinn's portrayal shows a side of the Muslim character that we all too rarely see in American media: far from being a backward fanatic, Omar was a teacher who personified the civilized Islamic virtues.
	www.epinions.com /content_71832014468 (452 words)

	Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) governor of Libya, confident that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of Imperial Rome.
		Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man--Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn).
		A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar has committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his lifetime.
	www.arabfilm.com /cat_print.html?deptID=11 (123 words)

	Games Depot
		This variant differs from the original as follows: order of battle includes Italian tanks and armored cars that existed in 1931 (the year of Omar Mukhtar's capture).
		General Graziani is tasked with leading the Italian colonial forces in Libya to find and destroy the Libyan guerrilla bases and forces led by Omar Mukhtar.
		Inspired by the movie "Lion of the Desert" starring Anthony Quinn as Omar Mukhtar, Oliver Reed as General Graziani, and Rod Steiger as the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
	www.wargamer.com /gamesdepot/details.asp?sid=406 (120 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Lion of the Desert: 25th Anniversary Edition
		The film traces the campaign of Libyan freedom fighter Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), who for 20 years beginning in 1911 waged a hard-fought guerilla war against Libya's Italian occupiers, with Mukhtar's greatly outnumbered rebels on horseback successfully fending off Italy's modern tanks, better-equipped infantry, and poison gas.
		His approach to the character is low-key and thoughtful, patient and methodical, contrasting his often hot-headed and sadistic conquerors, which burn their crops, seal their wells, and torture and rape their women.
		As with The Message, Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the Desert is presented in a 16:9 enhanced transfer that unfortunately crops the side of the 2.35:1 Panavision image to 1.77:1.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=19149 (1097 words)

	Omar - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Omar
		And, toy that I was of this monster, the discussion of Omar and the Preacher was resumed.
		If you are agreed, say, in admiring Meredith, Hardy, Omar Khayyam, and Maeterlinck,--to take four particularly test-authors,--there is nothing to prevent your marrying at once.
		(1809-1883), Irish by birth, an eccentric though kind-hearted recluse, and a friend of Tennyson, is known solely for his masterly paraphrase (1859) of some of the Quatrains of the skeptical eleventh-century Persian astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Omar (179 words)

	KhadijaTeri - Libya - Benghazi
		A monument to Omar Mukhtar is in the center of the city.
		Omar Mukhtar is a hero of Libya; he led the resistance against the Italian occupation.
		His body is no longer inside the tomb; it has been moved to his birthplace.
	www.khadijateri.com /benghazi.html (300 words)

	Lion of the Desert - DVD
		Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian invasion in 1929.
		Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are trying to gain a foothold on Libyan soil under direct orders from the Italian dictator Mussolini (Rod Steiger).
		With the persistence of Mukhtar, the Libyans, battling the tanks and guns of the Italian army with their Bedouin troops on horseback, managed to hold off y the Italians for twenty years, until Mukhtar was finally captured and executed.
	www.bestbuy.com /site/olspage.jsp?type=product&id=53346 (239 words)

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		According to the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur of 22 April 1998, a group named Forces of the Martyr Omar Al-Mukhtar claimed responsibility for an armed attack on 19 April1998 in which an Israeli was killed.
		The name Omar Mukhtar does not refer to any known person on the Palestinian scene that might lead to the identity of the group, unless it refers to someone who was killed in some terrorist activity.
		However it is just as likely that the Forces of Omar Mukhtar will turn out to be a local autonomous group with no relations to any of the active known Palestinian terrorist groups.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/comment.cfm?id=385 (703 words)

	Media Lies - When is a pro-Syrian rally.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to Al-Ra'ai Il A'am Kuwaiti newspaper (Arabic link), students of "Omar Al Mukhtar" educational center in Helba city in Becca valley demonstrated yesterday in huge numbers against the Syrian presence in Lebanon.
		Omar Al Mukhtar center was considered a stronghold for Abdul Haleem Murad, the Arab nationalist minister of defense in the resigned Lebanese government who directly supervise on the center, which made this center also a stronghold for Arab nationalists that by nature support Syrian presence but now they're demonstrating against Syria!
		Also the students said that their demonstration comes after a series of what they described as "oppressive procedures" carried out by the administration of the center with direct instructions from the minister.
	www.antimedia.us /posts/1111194716.shtml (387 words)

	Internet Threat over Muslim Force for Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The statement was issued in the name of the Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Islamiya – Omar el-Mukhtar Brigade, a little-known group whose main title means the Group of Islamic Monotheism.
		Omar el-Mukhtar is the name of a Libyan nationalist who fought against the Italian occupation and was hanged by the colonial authorities in 1931.
		The statement was posted today on an Islamic website known to carry messages from militant groups.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1181241/posts (532 words)

	Exclusive: Interview w/ a Palestinian Leader
		A Palestinian organization with Arab nationalist leanings, calling itself the Forces of Omar al Mukhtar, claimed responsibility about a week ago for a shooting spree on an "Israeli" bus near the Tarqoumia roadblock in the southern West Bank.
		The Forces of Omar Al- Mukhtar vowed in a leaflet issued a few days ago to continue its operations against "the Zionist occupation of Arab land until the liberation of all of Palestine".
		The leaflet which was circulated in the West Bank mentioned that the recent operation was mounted near an "Israeli" military roadblock, close to the so-called safe passageway, to demonstrate the inability of the forces of occupation to kill the spirit of resistance within our people.
	www.freearabvoice.org /InterviewWithAPalestinianLeader.htm (2724 words)

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