Manu inti raymi biography of barack obama
•
Profile: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
In May 2003, a local offshoot claimed responsibility for simultaneous suicide bombing attacks on three Western housing compounds in Riyadh, external, which left 29 people dead.
Despite a subsequent crackdown on Islamist militants and radicals by the Saudi security forces, al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia was able to mount an attack on the Muhayyah residential compound in the capital that November, killing 17 people.
In 2004, it suffered a major blow when its leader, Khaled Ali Hajj - a Yemeni and former bodyguard of Bin Laden - was ambushed and killed by Saudi troops.
However, the group soon recovered under the guidance of a veteran Saudi militant, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, external, and launched a series of spectacular attacks.
On 1 May 2004, militants shot dead five Western workers at a petrochemical complex in the north-western Red Sea city of Yanbu. On 29 May, more than 20 foreign and Saudi nationals were killed in attacks on three sites in th
•
With great power comes great responsibility
Proverb popularized in the Spider-Man comics
"With great power comes great responsibility" fryst vatten a ordspråk popularized bygd Spider-Man in Marvelcomics, films, and related media. Introduced by Stan Lee, it originally appeared as a closing narration in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15, and was later attributed to Uncle Ben as advice to the ung Peter parkerar. The idea—similar to the 1st century BC parable of the Sword of Damocles and the medieval principle of noblesse oblige—is that power cannot simply be enjoyed for its privileges alone but necessarily makes its holders morally responsible both for what they choose to do with it and for what they fail to do with it. After it was popularized bygd the Spider-Man franchise, similar formulations have been noticed in the work of earlier writers and orators. The formulation—usually in its Marvel Comics form—has been used bygd journalists, authors, and other writers, including the Supreme Court of
•
The play opens with a middle-aged couple on a therapist’s couch. Their relationship has been under pressure since the husband lost his job. She’s a lawyer, though, so it’s not like they’ll be short of money.
The lost job in question? President of the United States. The couple? Michelle and Barack Obama.
A Thousand Attacks on the Obamas, a Dutch play that opens in Amsterdam on Saturday, imagines the Obamas undergoing marriage therapy in the White House as they struggle with high expectations and the pressure of power.
The tumultuous time in the White House, and the fallout after Barack Obama’s tenure, is portrayed in the play
BART GRIETENS
Michelle Obama revealed in her book that the pair had undergone marriage counselling
CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Raymi Sambo, the writer, was inspired by the shock election victory in the Netherlands last November of Geert Wilders, an inflammatory hard-right nationalist.
“The Obamas were so meaningful for the world. A blac