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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. Abdul Basit Usman - Wikipedia

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    Basit [3] 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 ]

  4. List of assassinated serving ambassadors - Wikipedia

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    Ambassador Post Place Country Date of death Killed by Envoys of Xerxes I: Persian envoys to Sparta Sparta: Sparta: 481 B.C. Leonidas I: Gaius Fulcinius: Roman envoys to Fidenae Fidenae: Roman Republic: 438 B.C. On orders of Lars Tolumnius: Lucius Roscius: Spurius Antius: Tullus Cloelius: Ambassadors of Genghis Khan: Mongol ambassadors to the ...

  5. 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]

  6. 1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking - Wikipedia

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    The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977.Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [1]

  7. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The anti-death penalty movement began to pick up pace in the 1830s and many Americans called for abolition of the death penalty. Anti-death penalty sentiment rose as a result of the Jacksonian era, which condemned gallows and advocated for better treatment of orphans, criminals, poor people, and the mentally ill.

  8. 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

  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.