http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس‎ Maḥmūd ʾAbbās) (born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن‎), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Mahmoud_Abbas Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:07:03 -0800 Ehud Olmert (Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט‎, IPA: [ɛˈhud ˈolmeʁt]  ( listen), born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli political figure, and former Prime Minister of Israel having served from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and be allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Ehud_Olmert Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:08:06 -0800 Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل محمّد حسن المالكي, transliterated Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī; born June 20, 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government also succeeded the Iraq allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Nouri_al-Maliki Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:08:17 -0800 Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bus allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Robert_Gates Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:31:44 -0800 William Joseph Fallon, (born December 30, 1944), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who retired after serving for over 41 years. He served as Commander of the U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM Fallon was the first naval officer to hold that position. His other fo allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/William_J%2E_Fallon Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:32:05 -0800 Muqtadā al-Ṣadr or Moktada al-Sadr (سيد مقتدى الصدر) (born August 12, 1973) is an Iraqi theologian and political leader. allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Muqtada_al-Sadr Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:07 -0800 Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض‎; b. 1952 Deir al-Ghusun) is a Palestinian politician and the current Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority after being reappointed on 19 May 2009. His first appointment, on 15 June 2007, was justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "nationa allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Salam_Fayyad Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:39 -0800 Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק (help·info), born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Ehud_Barak Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:50 -0800 Amir Peretz (Hebrew: עמיר פרץ‎, Arabic: عمير بيريتز‎; born Armand Peretz on 9 March 1952) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007. allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Amir_Peretz Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:34:00 -0800 Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī; April 28, 1937 – December 30, 2006) was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003. allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Saddam_Hussein Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:34:43 -0800 Rafik Bahaa El Deen Al-Hariri — (November 1, 1944 – February 14, 2005), (Arabic: رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري‎), a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004. He headed five cabinets during his allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Rafik_Hariri Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:15:46 -0800 Fouad Siniora (alternative spellings: Fouad Sanyoura, Fuad Sinyora, Fouad Saniora, Fouad Seniora) (Arabic: فؤاد السنيورة ‎, Fu'ād as-Sanyūrah) is the Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he held from 19 July 2005 to May 25, 2008, the date of the election of the new President of Lebanon; he was reno allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Fouad_Siniora Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:15:56 -0800 David Baker may refer to: allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/David_Baker Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:18:25 -0800 Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني‎, 24 August 1929–11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (أبو عمار), was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Or allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Yasser_Arafat Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:18:35 -0800 Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni (Hebrew: ציפורה מלכה "ציפי" לבני‎, born 8 July 1958) is an Israeli politician and the current leader of Kadima, the largest party in the Knesset. Raised an ardent nationalist, Livni has become one of her nation's leading voices for the two-state solution. In Israel she ha allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Tzipi_Livni Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:18:57 -0800 Matan Vilnai (Hebrew: מתן וילנאי‎, born 20 May 1944) is an Israeli politician and a former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He is currently Deputy Defense Minister and a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Matan_Vilnai Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:19:07 -0800 Change of Command allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/David_Petraeus Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:19:58 -0800 Ayad Allawi (Arabic: إياد علاوي‎. Iyād ʿAllāwī) (born 1945) is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Ayad_Allawi Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:20:30 -0800 Mohamed ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد البرادعي, transliteration: Muḥammad al-Barādaʿī) (born June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jo allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Mohamed_ElBaradei Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:16:38 -0800 Ismail Haniyeh (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية‎ Ismaʻīl Haniyya; sometimes transliterated as Ismail Haniya or Ismail Haniyah) ( Ismaʻīl Haniyya (help·info)) ; (born January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority, the matte allvoices / people in the news page http://www.allvoices.com/people/Ismail_Haniyeh Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:15:29 -0800