Sentences with phrase «former dictator enver»

ATLANTA — August 19, 2004 — L. Paul Bremer III, a leadership expert and career diplomat who served as U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq after the fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein, will deliver the keynote address on leadership at the CoreNet Global Summit in San Antonio on November 9, 2004.

Nasheed argues that the coup was organized by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the former dictator of the Maldives, and has referred to the current president, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, as a «puppet president» with Gayoom holding the power.

Jamal Penjweny's photographic series depicts Iraqis in everyday places covering their faces with pictures of the former dictator

Readers will recall that Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama who is currently serving a prison sentence, filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc..

Albania's former dictator Enver Hoxha and acclaimed writer Ismail Kadare both left their mark on their hometown, one of the most interesting cities in the country.

In this thriller set loosely in contemporary Bolivia, cyberpunks become virtual terrorists as they try and incent revolution against a democratically - elected former dictator.

The actress beat out Kristen Wiig and Gillian Jacobs for the female lead in Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy about a former dictator's trip to America.

We already know the answer has to do with the CIA and a failed assassination attempt on a former dictator who has incriminating information on the agency's involvement in Africa.

These were bolstered by portraits of the former dictator as corpulent — a girth not expected in someone dying from a gastric tumor.

Atiku recently visited a former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.)

• Ministers have agreed to pay more than # 2m to the family of a prominent Libyan dissident abducted with the help of MI6 and secretly flown to Tripoli where he was tortured by the security police of the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

«The Hand of God» has, since leaving football, strengthened his left - wing ideals, forging a friendship with Fidel Castro (the former dictator's face is tattooed on Maradona's left leg).

Following the ousters of Ben Ali and Mubarak, then, the secular - liberal youth whose leaderless masses played an instrumental role in organizing and toppling their former dictators were left with little recourse for formal and institutionalized political action.

Not exact matches

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

Other targets of the U.S. penalties are Gambia's former president, as well as the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general.

MONTREAL — A former SNC - Lavalin executive allegedly paid the son of dictator Moammar Gadhafi $ 160 million in kickbacks to obtain major contracts in Libya, according to an unsealed affidavit from the RCMP's anti-corruption squad.

Park, the country's first female president, is the daughter of former military dictator, Park...

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

As blood and chaos flood the dictator's former killing fields, war supporters hate peace lovers» inability to hang tough in the name of freedom.

The election was also somewhat of a replay of Indonesia's 2014 presidential election, when the current president, Jokowi, defeated Prabowo, son - in - law of the last dictator Soeharto and a former general suspected of human rights abuses.

Former Convention People's Party (CPP) Chairperson Samia Nkrumah has rejected claims that her father, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence, was a dictator.

Sarkozy has faced several legal investigations since leaving office, including charges that he allegedly took illegal campaign funds from former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

And Cox compared the governor's rhetorical style to former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was hit with charges on Tuesday in connection with the allegations that he illegally funded his 2007 presidential campaign with money from deceased Libyan dictator...

John Prescott has described films depicting the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as «quite deplorable».

Speaking while Mr Blair was on holiday in Miami, Mr Prescott condemned the manner in which the former Iraqi dictator was executed.

In both cases they were former friends of the dictator which are punished for openly disagreeing with him.

The former vice-president said Buhari had become a dictator of sorts in the APC such that nothing could be done without his permission, arguing that that was why the party had failed to progress in the last two years.

In a speech to the Bow Group the former Tory Chairman and self - appointed keeper of the Thatcherite flame will «compare the Tory leader to the communist dictator Pol Pot over the way in which he has tried to «purge the memory of Thatcherism»» (Telegraph).

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

At the same time, perhaps he might rescind his comments of endorsement for that degraded former comrade of his who has propagandised for Baathist dictator after Baathist dictator.

Former prime minister, who has faced criticism over relationship with dictator, telephoned him twice to urge him to «step back»

JOHN ALECHENU writes about some prominent politicians who participated in the formation of the All Progressives Congress but are no longer part of the party's activities Chief Tom Ikimi This architect and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs during the administration of the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was a member of the defunct -LSB-...]

A former member of the Black Panthers and the National Black United Front, Mr. Barron has gained notoriety for calling Thomas Jefferson a «slave - holding pedophile,» for hosting Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe at City Hall, for praising Cuba's Fidel Castro and Libya's Muammar el - Quaddafi and — in overwhelmingly pro-Israel New York — for being not just pro-Palestinian but pro-Hamas.

Reports from Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, indicated that the main opposition party, the Sierra Leonean Peoples Party [SLPP] has also picked former military dictator, Maada Bio as its candidate after protracted internal factionalisation.

Apart from the former military dictator, he said the former Vice-President could not be said to have visited any other person of recent.

He stated that when former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, set up an interim national government in 1993, the dictator offered him a position in the government through the late General Shehu Yar» Adua (ret.).

While faulting former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida's recent intervention in the Boko Haram crisis, he argued that the ex-dictator ought to have spoken before then.

However, it was gathered that the former vice president was indecisive on whether to align with the choice of the 11 governors in the party or that of some northern elements and a former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.).

One year before the United States invaded Ameer's native Panama to depose dictator and former CIA informant General Manuel Noriega, he escaped to live with his sister in New York City.

«The CIA personality profile of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was actually the Middle Eastern version of «showing off,» not irrational behavior as the Bush administration inaccurately thought,» according to Neuman.

IMELDA»S DREAM COME TRUE Imelda Marcos, widow of the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was infamous for her shoe collection but also for quotes such as this one: «People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty.

They decide to see a marriage therapist (Colman, Hyde Park on Hudson) to hash out their issues, and things are difficult enough as it is when Josh's former long - time flame, Chloe (Faris, The Dictator), returns from Africa after abandoning that relationship for four years, while Nat is busy flirting with a handsome American client, Guy (Baker, The Lodger), that she is currently trying to drum up business with in her firm.

Students spent a week studying Iraq's history and culture and another week studying the life of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein before the debates.

Furthering her connection with the country, Rowling went as far as to name a character in her series, Salazar Slytherin, after a former Portuguese dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar.

The British government, you see, had just arrested General Pinochet the former Chilean dictator and British travellers had been advised to lie a little low.

Like the first game, you take control of Rico Rodriguez on a fictional island as he seeks to overthrow the evil dictator and confront his former boss.

Call of Duty's portrayal of former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega is justified under the First Amendment, according to Activision legal eagle and one - time New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Panama's former militaristic dictator Manuel Noriega is suing Activision over using his likeness, and name, in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

The project draws attention to the roles that certain artefacts have played in the recent history of the Philippines, specifically in shaping the cultural legacy of former Philippine dictators Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and the absurd postcolonial ideology they enforced under the auspices of capitalist democracies during the Cold War.