The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.

At the lycée in Rennes when he was 15, he led of a group of boys who devoted much time and energy to poking fun at their well-meaning, but obese and incompetent physics teacher, a man named Hébert.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

In the group was an emcee named Ya Kid K from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who later led the group into international fame with hits like " Pump up the Jam " and " Shake That Body ".

In the party there was also a group named Ethic-Religious Council, whose board members included Gaetano Rebecchini ( founder, ex-DC ), Riccardo Pedrizzi ( president ), Franco Tofoni ( vice president ), Luigi Gagliardi ( secretary-general ), Alfredo Mantovano, Antonio Mazzocchi and Riccardo Migliori.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

The show is set in the Cheers bar ( named for the toast " Cheers ") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun.

On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.

At 6: 30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196.

In 1994, the group was named International Group of the Year at the BRIT Awards.

The Maeshowe group, named after the famous Orkney monument, is among the most elaborate.

This re-united group, which now included the large majority of Christadelphians, became known as the Central fellowship named after the Birmingham Central ecclesia.

It was from the foundation of the first Taiko ensemble that Daihachi Oguchi continued on to lead the successful Taiko group named Osuwa Daiko.

During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor.

In May of that year, a group of Quito notables met to dissolve the union with Gran Colombia, and in August, a constituent assembly drew up a constitution for the State of Ecuador, so named for its geographic proximity to the equator, and placed General Flores in charge of political and military affairs.

* A group of villages in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, was named in Jenner's honor by early 19th century English settlers, including Jenners, Jenner Township, Jenner Crossroads, and Jennerstown, Pennsylvania

In response, a group of PC manufacturers ( the " Gang of Nine "), led by Compaq, created a new bus, which was named the Extended ( or Enhanced ) Industry Standard Architecture, or " EISA ".

Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).

The Engset calculation is a related formula, named after its developer, T. O. Engset, used to determine the probability of congestion occurring within a telephony circuit group.

The group was named for the members ' love for BMX Freestyle Bike racing.

If there is another functional group at a carbon, it may be named with the Greek letter, e. g., the gamma-amine in gamma-aminobutanoic acid is on the third carbon of the carbon chain attached to the carboxylic acid group.

In 2006, the CBC's Fifth Estate named Singer as one of a small group of scientists who have created what the documentary called a stand-off that is undermining the political response to global warming.

The cleric was protected by at least 100 fighters from Jund Ansar Allah (" Army of the Helpers of God "), an Islamist group with links to Al-Qaeda.

While the funeral of Muhammad was being arranged a group of Muhammad's followers who were natives of Medina, the Ansar ( helpers ), organised a meeting on the outskirts of the city, effectively locking out those companions known as Muhajirs ( The Emigrants ) including Umar.

For example, in 2002 and 2003 during the DeCSS legal proceedings it prosecuted Jon Lech Johansen, who was assisted in his defense by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and again in 2003 Økokrim arrested Mullah Krekar, alleged leader of the Kurdish Islamist group, Ansar al-Islam.

* Kurdish officials report a US missile attack on territory held by the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.

* MSNBC finds evidence of the deadly toxins ricin, and botulinum at a laboratory in northern Iraq, used as a training camp for Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group with ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Ansar al-Islam ( AAI ) ( Supporters or Partisans of Islam ) was a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis, promoting a radical interpretation of Islam, close to the official Saudi ideology of Wahhabism with strict application of Sharia.

Ansar al-Islam was formed in September 2001 as a merger of Jund al-Islam ( Soldiers of Islam ), led by Abu Abdallah al-Shafi ' i, and a splinter group from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan led by Mullah Krekar.

Krekar became the leader of the merged Ansar al-Islam, which opposed an agreement made between IMK and the dominant Kurdish group in the area, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).

Former prisoners of the group also claim that Ansar al-Islam routinely uses torture and severe beatings when interrogating prisoners.

* Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, or Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq

* War on Terrorism – Canal Hotel: US officials comment terror group linked to al Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, is emerging as a top suspect in the U. N. headquarters bombing in Baghdad.

Sunni militant group Ansar al-Sunna claimed the attack.

The group was founded in September 2003 as an umbrella organization for guerrillas, with former members of Ansar al-Islam, a radical Islamist organization with members currently residing in Iran after a 2003 joint operation by Iraqi and US forces forced them to flee Iraq.

Ansar al-Sunna is also among the most active users of IEDs against coalition forces, a fact testified to by the numerous videos released of IED attacks claimed by the group.

This joint team combined in Operation Viking Hammer to defeat Ansar al-Islam, a Islamist group allied to al-Qaeda, which several battle-hardened fighters from Afghanistan had joined after the fall of the Taliban, in a battle for control over the northeast of Iraq – a battle that turned out being one of the " most intense battles of Special Forces since Vietnam ".

On July 3, 2004, Al Jazeera reported that the terrorist group Jaish Ansar al-Sunna had released a statement declaring they had beheaded Hassoun, and their website confirmed this.

* Iraqi Salafi Islamists, the indigenous armed followers of the Salafi movement, as well as any remnants of the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam: individuals with a Salafi-only policy opposed to non-Salafis though not aligned to one specific ethnic group.

The terrorist group Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack.

Krekar was the original leader of the Islamist armed group Ansar al-Islam, which was set up and commenced operations in Kurdistan while he had refugee status in Norway.

The United States government has declared Ansar al-Islam a terrorist group, but Krekar denies that it was during the time he headed it, and says he no longer does.

They also organized and led the Mujaheddin as an irregular force against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, as well as the Northern Alliance as an irregular insurgency force against the Taliban with US Army Special Forces during the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and organized and led the Kurdish Peshmerga with US Army Special Forces as an irregular counter-insurgency force against the Kurdish Sunni Islamist group Ansar al-Islam at the Iraq-Iran border and as an irregular force against Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

They were part of the Jaish Ansar al-Sunna group and had been convicted of kidnapping and murdering three policemen and abducting, raping and killing Iraqi women.

The heaviest fighting began in September 2001, when a newly created Islamist group, the Ansar al-Islam, seized control of some villages near the Iranian border and attempted to institute a strictly Islamist theocratic regime.