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WHALE SHARKS GIVE DONSOL A NEW LIFE
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The enormous gray whale shark glides effortlessly in the murky waters off Donsol in Sorsogon, its distinctive pale yellow spotted back and fins clearly visible as excited tourists prepare to enter the water from nearby outrigger canoes.
They swim to within a few meters of these gentle giants of the deep as their guide makes sure they give the whale shark plenty of room to move.
The world's largest fish, some as big as a school bus and weighing up to 30 tons, are not aggressive.
"But it's advisable not to get too close in case they decide to turn over," Angela Quiros, a marine biologist and ...
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FROM BLACKSBURG TO BAGHDAD
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; Hani Naji Al-Amood's voice is as soft as the snowflakes drifting past the window...just disappeared one day on his way to work. Saddam, who had replaced Ahmad Hasan Bakr as president of Iraq, had begun his cold-blooded quest to rid the...
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THE RISE AND FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN: A CHRONOLOGY
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News
; ...assassinate Iraqi prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim. Jan. 20, 1961...July 17, 1968. Baathist general Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr becomes president of Iraq and...July 17, 1968. Baathist general Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr becomes president of Iraq and...
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Iraq 101
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Weekly
; ...mannequin. Qasim was replaced by Abd al-Salam Arif, who oversaw a bloody...succeeded by his brother, Gen. Abd al-Rahman Arif, who ruled until 1968...by a Baathist coup and replaced by Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr. One of the key figures in the Baathist...
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Abu Nidal: "Nationalist turned psychopath"?
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
; ...cause, was the late Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal...Party regime of President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr. The Iraqi president hated...June 1976, Iraqi President Bakr clashed with Damascus over...for Foreign Affairs Sayf al-Ghubash was slain instead...
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Requiem for Saddam Hussain
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
; ...influential longtime army officer, Nuri al-Said. While the Ba'athists supported...realized that its new leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, did not seem to plan...overthrew Abdul Rahman Aref and appointed Ahmad Hasan al Bakr as president. Al-Bakr was a cousin...
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Saddam's "engaging smile".(Document)(1969 report on Saddam Hussein by British ambassador Glencairn Balfour-Paul)(Transcript)
Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly
; ...of his fellow Tikriti, Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, the coup leader who became...regime. In November 1969, Bakr named Saddam as vice...apparent of President Bakr, (6) have naturally...sincerity of for instance Izzat al-Douri. (7) This seemed...
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JUST WHO IS SADDAM HUSSEIN?
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data
; ...base. Hussein grew up in the town of Al Dawr. Visitors to the area described...a military coup led by Col. Abd-al-Salam Muhammad Arif, who'd been...ousted the brother in July 1968. Gen. Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, the new president, was Hussein...
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Information about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...April 28, 1937: Born in Al Awja, a village near Tikrit...making body, by President Ahmad Hasan al Bakr, a relative. _1979: After forcing Bakr to retire, elected president...controls, CNN, the BBC, and Al Jazeera, the Arabic news...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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GULF WAR 2: SADDAM HUSSEIN, DICTATOR, 1937-200? A life of evil; RAISED BY A NAZI SYMPATHISER, TYRANT WHO MURDERED THOUSANDS.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...most days for him in the village of Al-Ouja near Tikrit in north central...a member of the violent yet clever al-Khalab clan, the son of a landless...He attached himself to a relative, Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, one of five members of the RevolutionaryCommand...
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Ruthless son of a peasant who rose to torment West and create 'new Vietnam'
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...28, 1937 - born in the village of Al-Awja near Tikrit, north of Baghdad...Qassem's former ally, Col Abd- al-Salam Muhammad Arif, seizes power...stages a successful coup. General Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, also from Tikrit and a relative...
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