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  2. Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Basit finished learning the Quran at age of 10 and then requested his grandfather and father to continue his education with the Qira’at (recitations). They both agreed and sent him to the city of Tanta (Lower Egypt) to study the Quranic recitations (‘ulum al-Quran wa al-Qira’at) under the tutelage of Sheikh Muhammad Salim, a well known teacher of recitaion of that time.

  3. List of assassinated serving ambassadors - Wikipedia

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    South Korean Ambassador to Burma Rangoon Burma: October 9, 1983: North Korean agents as part of an assassination plot against visiting South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan: Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak: Emirati Ambassador to France Paris United Arab Emirates: February 8, 1984: Abu Nidal Organization Salih Mahdi Ammash: Iraqi Ambassador to Finland ...

  4. Abdul Basit (diplomat) - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Basit is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served as the former high commissioner of Pakistan to India. He was appointed to his position in 2014 and was based at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi. [2] Previously, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to Germany from May 2012 to March 2014. [2]

  5. Abdul Basit Usman - Wikipedia

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    Basit Usman [3] Ahmad Akmad Batabol Usman [ 3 ] (1974 – 3 May 2015), more commonly known as Abdul Basit Usman , was a Filipino terrorist and a bomb-making expert who led the Special Operations Group of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and had links to the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah militant groups. [ 4 ]

  6. List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States

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    The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States of America was the official diplomatic representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States. The ambassador and the embassy staff at large worked at the Afghan Embassy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

  7. Abd al-Basit - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, possible original name of Ramzi Yousef (born 1967), Pakistani convicted for terrorism; Abdul Basith (volleyball) (died 1991), Indian volleyball player; Abdul Basit, Ghanaian footballer; Abdul Basit, Pakistani diplomat; Abdel Basset Turki, Iraqi politician; Hafiz Abdul Basit, Pakistani held in extrajudicial detention

  8. Ambassadors of the United States - Wikipedia

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    An ambassador may be a career Foreign Service officer (career diplomat – CD) or a political appointee (PA). In most cases, career foreign service officers serve a tour of approximately three years per ambassadorship, whereas political appointees customarily tender their resignations upon the inauguration of a new president.

  9. Alexander Russell Webb - Wikipedia

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    He was appointed the Honorary Turkish Consul in New York by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Webb showed his plans for a Muslim cemetery and masjid and the sultan complimented him on them, though those plans never materialized. From 1898 till his death on October 1, 1916, aged 69, he lived in Rutherford, New Jersey.