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Hamas From Gaza

A PROFILE AND MODUS OPERANDI OF HAMAS THE ARABIC ACRONYM FOR “Harakat AL-MUQAWAMA AL-ISLAMIYA” OR ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT .

Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political organization founded in Egypt with branches throughout the Arab world. Beginning in the late 1960s, Hamas’s founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both of which were occupied by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.

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MODELLED ON MUMBAI: THE Similarities BETWEEN 13 November 2015 Paris event and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Mumbai attack, November 2008.

The Mumbai terror attacks were a carefully planned paramilitary-intelligence operation where ten armed men paralysed India’s financial capital for 60 hours. Over 160 people – Indian nationals as well as 22 foreign nationals – were killed.

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Following a professional career as a Sports Educator with extensive international experience in sports science, multi sports festival management and ceremonies and special event creation and production, Richard has now dedicated his professional time to writing and documentary production.

For over 23 years he has lived in Papua New Guinea, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India and the Middle East.

In 1991 he directed and produced the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the South Pacific Games hosted in Papua New Guinea. In 1995, Richard planned and produced Papua New Guinea’s nationwide celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Independence. In the same year he authored the Papua New Guinea National Pledge, a key element of PNG’s National Identity Act.

Following the completion of a three year assignment to plan and manage elements of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Richard lived in Pakistan where in 2004 after three years of international and regional uncertainty in the sub continent, he produced and directed the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 9th South Asian Games in Islamabad, Pakistan.

In 2011 he accepted an Australian Government assignment at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia, where he interviewed and interacted with asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq.

Richard continues research and academic pursuits at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland and at the School of International Relations, University of Leiden, Netherlands.

He returned from Pakistan in January 2014 following pre production planning with Pakistan television station ATV for the proposed television series Cities of Pakistan. Read more about Cities of Pakistan in this website.

Richard contributes to the Taronga Conservation Society’s elephant programme and was an active participant in Taronga’s Dinosaurs in the Wild special event – November 2014 to February 2015.

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