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Revelation 14: 7 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani

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Jalal Talabani
Incumbent
Assumed office 
7 April 2005
Prime MinisterIbrahim al-Jaafari
Nouri al-Maliki
Vice PresidentAdil Abdul Mahdi
Tariq al-Hashimi
Khodair al-Khozaei
Preceded byGhazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (Acting)
In office
1 November 2003 – 30 November 2003
LeaderPaul Bremer
Preceded byAyad Allawi
Succeeded byAbdul Aziz al-Hakim
Born12 November 1933 (1933-11-12) (age 77)
Silemani, Iraq
Political partyPatriotic Union of Kurdistan
Spouse(s)Hero Ibrahim Ahmed[1]
ChildrenQubad
Alma materBaghdad University
ReligionSunni Islam
Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: جەلال تاڵەبانی Celal Tallebanî, Arabic: جلال طالباني‎ Jalāl Tālabānī; born November 12, 1933) is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish.[2]
Talabani is the founder and secretary general of one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Talabani has been an advocate for Kurdish rights and democracy in Iraq for more than 50 years.

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Talabani was born in 1933 in Talaban Village and descends from the Talabani tribe that has produced many leading social figures. He received his elementary and intermediate school education in Koya (Koysanjak) and his high school education in Erbil and Kirkuk. In the late 1950s Mustafa Barzani sent him to Syria to study law. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian(With a heavy Kurdish accent), and English. Talabani has a record of lifelong activism and leadership in the Kurdish and Iraqi causes. In 1946, at the age of 13 he formed a secret Kurdish student association. His youngest son, Qubad, is the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the United States.

[edit] Career

[edit] Rights for Kurds

Main article: Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
When in September 1961, the Kurdish revolution for the rights of the Kurds in Western Iraq was declared against the Baghdad government of Abdul Karim Qassem, Talabani took charge of the Kirkuk and Silemani battle fronts and organized and led separatist movements in Mawat, Rezan and the Karadagh regions. In March 1962, he led a coordinated offensive that brought about the liberation of the district of Sharbazher from Iraqi government forces. When not engaged in fighting in the early and mid 1960s, Talabani undertook numerous diplomatic missions, representing the Kurdish leadership at meetings in Europe and the Middle East.
The Kurdish separatist movement collapsed in March 1975 after Iran ended their support in exchange for a border agreement with Iraq. This agreement was the 1975 Algiers Agreement, where Iraq gave up claims to the Shatt al-Arab waterway and Khuzestan, which later became the basis for the Iran-Iraq war. Believing it was time to give a new direction to the Kurdish separatists and to the Kurdish society, Talabani, with a group of Kurdish intellectuals and activists, founded the Kurdish Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Yekiaiti Nishtimani Kurdistan). In 1976, he began organizing an armed campaign for Kurdish independence inside Iraq. During the 1980s, Talabani sided with Iran and led a Kurdish struggle from bases inside Iraq until the crackdown against Kurdish separatists from 1987 to 1988.
In 1991, he helped inspire a renewed effort for Kurdish independence. He negotiated a ceasefire with the Iraqi Ba'athist government that saved the lives of many Kurds and worked closely with the US, UK, France and other countries to set up the safe haven in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1992 the Kurdistan Regional Government was founded. Talabani has pursued a negotiated settlement to the internecine problems plaguing the Kurdish movement, as well as the larger issue of Kurdish rights in the current regional context. He works closely with other Kurdish politicians as well as the rest of the Iraqi opposition factions. In close coordination with Massoud Barzani, Talabani and the Kurds played a key role as a partner of the US-Coalition in the invasion of Iraq. Talabani was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council that negotiated the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), Iraq's interim constitution. The TAL governed all politics in Iraq and the process of writing and adopting the final constitution.

[edit] Presidency

Jalal Talabani with President Barack Obama during a visit to Camp Victory, Iraq, April 7, 2009.
Talabani was elected President of Iraq on April 6, 2005 by the Iraqi National Assembly and sworn in to office the following day. On April 22, 2006, Talabani began his second term as President of Iraq, becoming the first President elected under the country's new Constitution. Currently, his office is part of the Presidency Council of Iraq. Nawshirwan Mustafa was Talabani's deputy until Mustafa resigned in 2006 and formed a media company called Wusha. Talabani visited the Cambridge Union Society UK, on 11 May 2007.[3] The visit itself was organized by the then President of Cambridge Union Society, Ali Al-Ansari. In an interview, during the visit, Jalal Talabani described Tony Blair as a 'hero' for helping secure Iraq's freedom.[4] He was reelected by the Parliament for a new term on 11 November 2010.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Iraqi first lady survives bombing". BBC News. 2008-05-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7382641.stm. Retrieved 2008-08-14. 
  2. ^ "Iraq's president appoints Shiite as prime minister". chinadaily.com. 2009-04-21. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/08/content_432343.htm. Retrieved 08-04-2005. 
  3. ^ "President Talabani of Iraq Visits Cambridge". http://www.cus.org/show_image/542. 
  4. ^ "President Talabani of Iraq". http://www.archive.org/details/cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani. 
  5. ^ Iraq parliament elects Talabani president SignOnSanDiego, November 11 2010

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New officeGeneral Secretary of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
1975–present		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Ayad Allawi		President of the Governing Council of Iraq
2003		Succeeded by
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
Preceded by
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
Acting		President of Iraq
2005–present		Incumbent
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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed [Al Qaeda]

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Circa 1974 – 8 June 2011 (2011-06-09) (aged 36)[1]
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.jpg
FBI age-enhanced and retouched photograph - 2008[2]
NicknameAbdallah Mohammed Fazul[3]
Abu Seif Al Sudani,
Abu Aisha,
Abu Luqman,
Fadel Abdallah Mohammed Ali
Fouad Mohammed
Daniel Robinson[1]
Place of birthMoroni, Comoros
Place of deathAfgooye corridor, Somalia[1]
Resting placeSomalia[1]
AllegianceFlag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg Al-Qaeda Al-Shabaab
Service/branchFlag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg Al-Qaeda Actions in East Africa
Years of service1990 - 2011
Commands heldHead of Al-Qaeda Actions in East Africa and Al-Shabaab's top military commander
Battles/warsWar in Somalia
Battle of Ras Kamboni
War in Somalia (2009–)
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (Arabic: فاضل عبدالله محمد‎) (born August 25, 1972, February 25, 1974, or December 25, 1974 – June 8, 2011) was a suspected member of al-Qaeda, sometimes purported to be the leader of their East African presence. Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and had Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship. He spoke French, Swahili, Arabic, English, and Comorian.[4]

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Mohammed and a number of others were under indictment[5] in the United States for their alleged participation in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Mohammed was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists since its inception on October 10, 2001. The reward for finding Mohammed was US$5 million.[4][6]
In Kenya, Mohammed was once the secretary of, and lived in the same house as, Wadih el-Hage. El-Hage was indicted with Mohammed,[5] and has been convicted. A letter to el-Hage, thought to be from Mohammed, was exhibited at el-Hage's trial.[7]
Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on October 3, 1993, when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers.[8]

[edit] War on terror

Mohammed is suspected in Kenya of involvement in two attacks in Mombasa on November 26, 2002. One was the truck bombing of Paradise Hotel, in which 15 were killed. The other was the launch of two shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner on takeoff; the missiles missed and there were no casualties.[9][10]
On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that reports indicated that Mohammed was one of seven al-Qaeda members who were planning a terrorist action for the summer or fall of 2004.[11] American Democrats labeled the warning "suspicious" and said it was held solely to divert attention from President Bush's plummeting poll numbers and to push the failings of the 2003 invasion of Iraq off the front page.[12] CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like "election year" politics, than an actual threat. The New York Times pointed out that one day before the announcement, they had been told by the Department of Homeland Security that there were no current risks.[12]
According to an FBI interrogation report, an associate of Mohammed confessed that the militant trained with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.[13] Ahmed Ghailani, also on that list, was captured in Pakistan a month later. Soon thereafter, several press reports, claiming UN and official US sources, described the participation of several al-Qaeda personnel, including Mohammed and Ghailani, in the acquisition and movement of diamonds in Liberia.[14]
When the ferry MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria in 1996, taking al-Qaeda co-founder Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri with it, Mohammed was one of the individuals sent to the scene by al-Qaeda, attempting to verify that Abu Ubaidah was dead, and had not in fact defected.[15]

[edit] Suspected involvement in Somali conflict

In early 2007, during the War in Somalia, Mohammed was thought to be in the border area near Ras Kamboni, along with remnants of the Islamic Courts Union. On January 8, 2007, a US Air Force AC-130 gunship targeted al-Qaeda in the area. It is likely he was one of the targets as The Pentagon has said the "target of the strike was the principal al-Qaeda leadership in the region."[16][17][18] Somali government officials said that his death was confirmed in an intelligence report provided to Somali authorities by the United States.[13] However, in an interview with the BBC, the US ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, denied that Mohammed had been killed in the airstrike, and stated that the search for the three al-Qaeda suspects continues.[19] The gunship attack resulted in the deaths of at least 70 civilian nomads and many more injuries as they were searching for a water source at night.[20] Mohammed's remains, if they are found, can be identified by aid of a DNA sample taken in Comoros.[9]
One of Mohammed's wives and her children were captured trying to escape to Kenya from Somalia. They were arrested in Kiunga and brought to Nairobi for questioning.[21] Before Mohammed's wife was deported back to Somalia by the Kenyan government a computer in her possession thought to have been Mohammed's was seized and was said to have "contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection including spying".[22] Mohammed is believed to "be very good with computers".[4]
While it was never confirmed that Mohammed escaped from the fighting in Somalia or had even been there when the violence broke out, Madagascar's largest newspaper, Midi Madagasikara, reported in early February, 2007, that Mohammed was currently residing in the island nation. This is in contrast to the statement by Abdirizak Hassain, saying that Mohammed was killed in the Battle of Ras Kamboni by a U.S. airstrike. Quoting military and "other sources," the newspaper claimed he was in the city of Mahajanga. A partner of his from the Comoros currently resides on the island.[citation needed]
On August 2, 2008, Mohammed supposedly escaped a police dragnet in Malindi, Kenya, but two of his aides were arrested. He was said to have been covertly taken into Kenya from Somalia a few days previously, seeking treatment for kidney problems. The police confiscated two of his passports and a laptop, among other belongings. The police operation took place several days before the 10th anniversary of the 1998 Embassy bombings.[23][24]

[edit] Al-Qaeda top commander in East Africa and Al Shabaab top military commander

On November 11, 2009 Mohammed's consecration as commander took place in an open ceremony in the southern Somali city of Kismayo, according to a translation received by The Long War Journal of an article posted on Waaga Cusub, a pro-insurgency website, run by a Somali clan, the Hawiye. According to the website, he "delivered his longest speech delivered his longest speech [sic]".[25] Referring to his appointment by Osama bin Laden and praising his predecessor, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, killed by US special forces in mid-September, Mohammed acknowledged his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He promised that al-Qaeda and Shabaab would take the fight to neighboring countries. "Praise be to Allah," Mohammed said. "After Somalia we will proceed to Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia."[25]
After the July 2010 Kampala attacks in nearby Uganda, which targeted people watching screenings of the World Cup final, Shabaab's spiritual leader, Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr threatened to carry out further attacks on foreign soil, in particular in Burundi and Uganda, due to the presence of peacekeeping troops from these countries in Somalia. He named the group that perpetrated the attacks as the Saleh Ali Nabhan Brigade which was likely led or directed by Mohammed at the time.[26]
Confirmation of Mohammed's role as Shabaab's military leader, as well as the involvement of other foreign al-Qaeda commanders in Somalia, was confirmed in a report compiled by the African Union Mission for Somalia, and published in The EastAfrican. A US intelligence operative, specializing in the al-Shabaab group, confirmed the information contained in the report to a website specialized in reporting on the war on terror.[27]

[edit] Death

Mohammed and a Kenyan extremist named Ali Dere were driving in a car carrying US$40,000, as well as medicine, phones, laptops and a South African passport in the Afgooye corridor, northwest of Mogadishu on June 8, 2011. At 2:00 a.m. they failed to stop at a checkpoint managed by the Somalian military (SNA). The SNA opened fire at the car, killing both Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Ali Dere.[28]
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed's death was confirmed by Somali and U.S. government officials and was characterized by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "a significant blow to Al Qaeda, its extremist allies and its operations in East Africa."[29]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d "East Africa embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah killed". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13737942. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  2. ^ "Fazul Abdullah Mohammed -images". FBI. http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/fazul-abdullah-mohammed/person_view_multimedia#images. Retrieved 11 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "PBS story on FAM and al-Hage". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/upclose/. 
  4. ^ a b c Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Department of Justice
  5. ^ a b Copy of indictment[dead link] USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
  6. ^ Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Rewards for Justice Program, US Department of State
  7. ^ Letter to el-Hage, PBS, 2001
  8. ^ Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
  9. ^ a b CBS reports that Mohammed is wanted in Kenya, January 10, 2007
  10. ^ Aronson, Samuel. "Crime and Development in Kenya". http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/278/crime-and-development-in-kenya-emerging-trends-and-the-transnational-implications-of-political-economic-and-social-instability. 
  11. ^ Transcript: Ashcroft, Mueller news conference, CNN.com, Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Posted: 8:19 p.m. EDT (0019 GMT)
  12. ^ a b Pither, Kerry. "Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror", 2008.
  13. ^ a b Al Qaeda militant killed[dead link]
  14. ^ Liberia's Taylor gave aid to Qaeda, UN probe finds, Boston Globe, August 4, 2004
  15. ^ Transcript of testimony in the trial of El Hage and others
  16. ^ "U.S. launches new attacks in Somalia - CTV News". Ctv.ca. 2007-01-09. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070109/somalia_strikes_070109/20070109?hub=TopStories. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  17. ^ Attacks against al-Qaeda continue in Somalia, MSNBC, 9 January 2007
  18. ^ "Somali Government closes in on al-Qa'eda stronghold". London. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/08/usomalia108.xml. [dead link]
  19. ^ "Somali raids miss terror suspects". BBC. 2007-01-11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6251077.stm. Retrieved 2007-01-11. 
  20. ^ "US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomads - Africa". The Independent. 2007-01-13. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/us-strikes-on-alqaida-chiefs-kill-nomads-431862.html. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
  21. ^ [1][dead link]
  22. ^ Kenya: We have hacked al-Qaida laptop, UPI, 30 January 2007
  23. ^ Mango, Caroline; Gitau, Paul; Ombati, Cyrus (August 4, 2008). "Top al-Qaeda man now back in Kenya" (Reprint from The Standard (Kenya)). African Press International. https://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/top-al-qaeda-man-now-back-in-kenya/. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  24. ^ Karim Rajan; Fred Mukinda (August 3, 2008). "Two arrested as top terror suspect flees". Daily Nation. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/446582/-/tj2yrs/-/index.html. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  25. ^ a b Bill Roggio (November 11, 2009). "Al Qaeda names Fazul Mohammed East African commander". The Long War Journal. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/al_qaeda_names_fazul.php. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  26. ^ Bill Roggio (July 15, 2010). "Uganda attack carried out by Shabaab cell named after slain al Qaeda leader". The Long War Journal. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/07/shabaab_cell_that_ca.php. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  27. ^ Bill Roggio (August 1, 2010). "Al Qaeda leaders play significant role in Shabaab". The Long War Journal. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/08/al_qaeda_leaders_pla.php. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  28. ^ "'US Africa embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah Mohammed dead'". BBC News. June 11, 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13737942. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
  29. ^ Jeffrey Gettleman (June 11, 2011). "Mastermind of 2 U.S. Embassy Bombings Is Killed in Somalia". NYTimes.com. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/africa/12somalia.html?_r=1&hp. Retrieved June 12, 2011. 
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