| George Habash, 82, founder of Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
Dr. George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a hard-line Marxist group that shocked the world with a campaign of airline hijackings and bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, died Saturday of a heart attack in Amman. Although accounts varied, he was believed to be 82. "He had a severe heart attack, and he died instantly," Leila Khaled, a longtime front associate and herself a high-profile airplane hijacker in 1969, told Al Jazeera by telephone from the Jordan Hospital, where Habash had been a patient. He also had cancer. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, ordered three days of mourning and flags lowered to half-staff in the Palestinian territories. Habash was best known as the Palestinian leader who adapted modern terrorist tactics as a weapon in the conflict with Israel.
Snuff out that cigarette
On Jan. 1, Maryland added another buck to the sales tax on cigarettes, taking the per pack cost of most brands over $5. It follows years of attempts to ban smoking at the state level. Smoking bans already have been passed in Washington, New York City and several Maryland counties including Howard, Montgomery and Prince George's. "We are catching up," said Del. Barbara Frush, D-Beltsville, the lead sponsor of the legislation. "Seven years ago when I started this process, we were among the first. But they've all passed us by. However, we needed the right governor and the right timing. For the last four years we've had a governor that threatened to veto it ... If I don't accomplish anything else in Annapolis, I feel that I have done something very good for the people of Maryland." Ms.
NRIs hop on airport buses for a ride home and back
Back from a 45-day stint in Holland to train for short and penalty corners, he is devoting at least an hour solely to perfect his penalty attack. The PHL is power play as no team can be written off and that is the charm of the tournament, feels Kanwal. Last year the Orissa team outplayed to prove how the best team on the day wins, remembers Kanwal. On his game Kanwal feels the rough patches are well behind him, the police games and the PHL are beginning of a new innings in his career. Wishing his fans to pray for him, Kanwals heart warms up at the thought of his greatest fan in his daughter Rehmat who will be cheering her dad heading the Sher-e-Jalandhar squad in the PHL. Josh with hosh is Tejbirs mantra Tejbir Singh has a penchant for coming back stronger than ever defeating every hurdle that he has had to face.
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